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.
Print the copies of your final thesis double-sided (see exceptions below).
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.)
Your personal copy can be single-sided if you prefer

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

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. mathomps@middlebury.edu and the thesis chair. (in a single pdf document)
Your final thesis title.
Fill out this google sheet for thesis binding and shipping.
Do you want any additional personal copies clothbound? If so, the cost is $25 each (to cover our cost). Additional shipping costs may apply.

Theses to be clothbound are sent to a bindery in Indiana. It takes 1-2 months to get them back, at which time we’ll mail the bound thesis to you!