University of Massachusetts Amherst master's thesis and dissertation
Academic
After the LaTeX template UMass Accessible Dissertation Template of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries (UMass Amherst Libraries, Brendan Kelly, version 2 of 26 October 2026, CC BY 4.0) and the rules of the Graduate School (Guidelines for Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations), which take precedence. A doctoral dissertation or a master's thesis in English on US Letter paper: the title page, the copyright page (required for a dissertation), the committee's signature page, the dedication, the acknowledgments, an optional page with a statement on the use of generative AI, the abstract, the table of contents, the lists of tables and figures, chapters "CHAPTER 1" with their title in capitals, sections 1.1 to 1.1.1.1.1, captions "Figure 1:" and "Table 1:" under the figure and the table, equations (1), appendices and the bibliography (APA). Times New Roman (Liberation Serif) 12 pt, double spacing, justified without hyphenation, a left margin of 1.5 inches and 1 inch elsewhere, the page number centred at the foot, the front matter in lower-case Roman numerals, the text in Arabic numerals from 1; without the University's logo.
- Format
- US Letter portrait
- Language
- EnglishENEnglish (default)
- Margins
- left 3.81 cm, right, top, and bottom 2.54 cm
- Body text
- Times New Roman (Liberation Serif) 12 pt, dvojité řádkování (24 pt), zarovnání do bloku bez dělení slov, odstavce odsazené 1,5 em
- Headings
- písmo textu 12 pt, tučně; kapitoly verzálkami na střed, oddíly vlevo
- Numbering
- CHAPTER 1 / 1.1 / 1.1.1 / 1.1.1.1 / 1.1.1.1.1
- Page number
- no page numbers
- Citations
- APA 7can be changed
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