Mastering Your Thesis: Formatting, Copyright, and Submission Made Easy

• Font should be Arial, Calibri, or Times New Roman
  
• Font size must be no smaller than 10 points, but no larger than 12 points
• All text should be black
• Same font size and type throughout

• Margins
  • Top, right, left, and bottom must be 1" all around.
• Spacing
  • The body of text must be double-spaced (except for block quotations, notes, captions, legends, and long headings, which are single-spaced).
  • Paragraphs are indented consistently 
• Pagination
  • A page number in some form must appear on every page.
• Footnotes or End Notes
  • Text of footnotes or end notes is single-spaced.
  • Font size may be smaller than text but must be the same font type.
  • Recommended: This LinkedIn course video provides step-by-step instructions to create footnotes or end notes in Microsoft Word (LMU login required to view). 
• Tables, Figures, and Illustrations
  • Ensure formatting is consistent.

When in doubt, review your discipline's or department's format manual for specific guidance.