Submitting Your Thesis

Format Review

Check with your adviser for any format preferences. General guidelines are as follows:

• Use the general format appropriate for the discipline of your thesis advisor (e.g., APA format if your advisor is in the Psychology Department).
• Margins: Generally one-inch margins are fine for all copies, including the cloth-bound copy (for clothbound copies, the Bindery trims 1/8” on all sides).
• Set the line spacing to be 1.5 for all sections except the Bibliography, which can be single-spaced.
• Start all new sections on a new page:  Abstract, Intro, Methods and Materials, Results, Discussion, Bibliography, Appendices. These are still double-sided, but each section should start on the right hand page.

• Charts, graphs, and photos should be single-sided (This is not necessary if they are embedded within text.)  

   

Instructions

Once your final thesis revisions have been approved by your committee, save it as a PDF. Lastname.nsci

By NOON on the last day of exams, you need to have completed the following:

• Obtain the signatures of your committee members (via hard copy or electronic signature) on the title page of your thesis.
• Submit finalized (with all signatures) PDF to the program coordinator via email mathomps@middlebury.edu and the thesis chair. (in a single pdf document)
• Fill out this google sheet for thesis binding and shipping.
• Additional copies: Please indicate to who and where they should be mailed. Each additional copy is $100.00 payable to Middlebury College, please give to the department coordinator before graduation.

Theses to be clothbound are sent to a bindery out of state. It takes approx. two weeks to get them back (late July/early August) at which time we’ll mail the bound thesis to you!