6. Presentation

6.1 General guidance on presentation and submission

If you are submitting a journal-style thesis you should abide by the University's requirements for all theses and, where possible, abide by the University’s guidance for the presentation of monograph theses.

6.2 Formatting ‘paper chapters’ within a journal-style thesis

Ideally, ‘paper chapters’ should be stylistically integrated into the thesis (ie with sequential page-numbering throughout the thesis), and the same typeface, margins (etc) as the rest of the thesis. This formatting should also be in line with the University's recommendations for the presentation of monograph theses.

This approach should be possible when papers have not been submitted for publication, or when using the author’s accepted manuscript version of a paper. Although some author’s accepted manuscripts have figures, tables and their legends (etc) at the end of the text, when the paper is incorporated into the thesis these should be moved to the appropriate point within the text.

6.2.1 Incorporating journal-formatted papers

If journal-formatted papers are included (normally because the publisher requires this) then it is likely that the formatting will vary across the thesis but you must ensure that legibility is maintained at all times (eg that the typeface of the included papers is large enough and there is a sufficient margin).

Where possible, you should alter the page numbers within a paper to maintain sequential page-numbering throughout the thesis. If this is not possible, a blank page should be placed before the paper which includes the citation details and indicates the thesis page number (n), with the numbering restarting from n+1 at the end of the paper (eg if the page prior to the paper was 30, the next page of the thesis after the journal-formatted paper would be 31).

6.3 Formatting of references

Each journal has a particular requirement around the formatting of references, meaning that if a journal-style thesis includes journal-formatted papers (see above), more than one referencing style may be used.

Where journal-formatted papers are not used (ie when papers have not been submitted for publication or when using the author’s accepted manuscript version of papers), it may be possible to format all the references in the thesis in line with the requirements of the home department, but the decision rests with you and may depend on how much work is involved in making the change from one referencing style to another. If there is a separate reference list or bibliography chapter within the thesis (ie if not all references or sources are referenced within the relevant chapter) then this should use a single referencing style.