Guidelines for the thesis
Title Page
The thesis must include a title page indicating the name of the faculty, the degree programme, the academic year, the name of the course within which the thesis was carried out, the title of the thesis, the name of the candidate, the name of the supervisor, and, where applicable, the name of the co-supervisor.
Structure of the Text
The thesis should be structured as follows:
- Table of contents
- Preface and/or Introduction
- Aim of the thesis
- Main body of the thesis
(e.g. in the case of an experimental thesis: Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion of Results)
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Appendix (if applicable)
Tables, graphs, and photographs may be included directly in the text or placed separately at the end.
Sources must be cited in the text, in tables, and in figures, and listed in the bibliography (see below).
Layout and Language
Language:
- The final thesis must be written in English.
Layout suggested:
- Font and size: Tahoma, 12 pt
- Line spacing: Single
- Text alignment: Justified
- Indicative number of pages: 100
- The final thesis, in A4 format, must be saved as PDF/A and uploaded to the MySNS platform.
Front page
The cover page is available on the MySNS platform.
Thesis Presentation
The thesis will be presented and discussed in English.
Each Master’s candidate will have approximately 20 minutes to present their work before the discussion.
Rules for Citations and Bibliographic References
In-text Citations
The following citation rules apply:
- ingle author: (Doniger, 1999)
- Two authors: (Cowlishaw and Dunbar, 2000)
- Three or more authors: (Doniger et al., 1999)
- For other cases, consult the Turabian Citation Guide (accessed June 8, 2010)
Bibliography
Book
One author:
- Doniger, W. Splitting the Difference. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Two authors:
- Cowlishaw, G., and R. Dunbar. Primate Conservation Biology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Three or more authors:
- Laumann, E. O., J. H. Gagnon, R. Michael, and S. Michaels. The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Book Chapter or Part of a Book
- Wiese, A. “Race, Class, and African American Suburban Dreams in the Postwar United States.”
In The New Suburban History, edited by Kevin M. Kruse and Thomas J. Sugrue, 99–119.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Book Published in Electronic Form
- Kurland, P. B., and R. Lerner, eds. The Founders’ Constitution.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/
(accessed June 27, 2006)
Journal Article
- Smith, J. M. “The Origin of Altruism.” Nature 393 (1998): 639–40.
Online Journal Article
- Hlatky, M. A., D. Boothroyd, E. V., P. Sharp, and M. A. Whooley.
“Quality-of-Life and Depressive Symptoms in Postmenopausal Women after Receiving Hormone Therapy: Results from the Heart and Estrogen/Progestin Replacement Study (HERS) Trial.”
Journal of the American Medical Association 287, no. 5 (February 6, 2002).
http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v287n5/rfull/joc10108.html#aainfo
(accessed January 7, 2004)
Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD Thesis
- Amundin, M. “Click Repetition Rate Patterns in Communicative Sounds from the Harbour Porpoise, Phocoena phocoena.”
PhD diss., Stockholm University, 1991.
Website
- Evanston Public Library Board of Trustees.
“Evanston Public Library Strategic Plan, 2000–2010: A Decade of Outreach.”
Evanston Public Library.
http://www.epl.org/library/strategic-plan-00.html
(accessed June 1, 2005)
For additional cases, consult the Turabian Citation Guide.