Graduate School of Political Management

A Manuscript Style Guide for the front pages for a master's thesis are provided below. This guide is not intended to be a template, but only to show the correct formatting for the front pages.

The body of the manuscript (chapters, bibliography and appendices) should be written in a style appropriate for your field of study or you school specific guidelines, with the exception of page margins, page numbering and page order. Styles for formatting bibliographies, footnotes, and/or endnotes should be consistent with the chosen style used to format the body of your document. For more information on citation styles and citation tools, please see the webpage Writing Styles.

A MS Word template has been provided below in a beta format. Feedback on this template can be sent to etds@gwu.edu.

Template Instructions: Open then save the template under a new name. The text highlighted in yellow on the new document may be edited with your specific information.
Please delete the optional pages you do not wish to use.

     Master's Sample Formatting Guide - DO NOT USE AS A TEMPLATE; it is for illustrative purposes only.
     Template: Title Page-Abstract Page (temporarily unavailable)