Submit an announcement of defense and an abstract to the Office of Graduate Studies two weeks before the defense. Check manuscript submission date in the Schedule of Classes . Alternatively, you may use the heading style of a journal in your field, if approved by the Manuscript Clearance Advisor. All pages of text will be full pages. Do not insert a page break between headings or before figures and tables.
Short pages are acceptable if they are the last page of a chapter.
You may have a small amount of blank space at the bottom of the page if necessary to keep a heading with text. If you will be printing the copies yourself rather than using a copy service, you may bring a sample of the paper to the Office of Graduate Studies for testing. Each copy of the final manuscript should be in an individual box.