ETD Formatting: Front Matter
Title Page
The front matter contains the following items in this order:
- Title
- This is the full title of your dissertation.
- Author
- You alone are the author of your dissertation.
- School
- The offical name of your University is "University of Nebraska"
- Degree
- Usually, this is either "Doctor of Philosophy", "Doctor of Education", or "Doctor of Musical Arts."
- Major
- Put the official name for your major. If you are in doubt regarding the name of your major, you may talk to the doctoral assistant in the Graduate Studies office.
- Advisor/Chair Name(s)
- This is the person/persons who supervised your doctoral program and dissertation.
- City, State
- This should always read "Lincoln, Nebraska".
- Date of Defense or Graduation Date
- Put the date you defended or the date of your graduation (e.g., "October, 1996.")
Other Front Matter
These items are listed in the order they would come after the title page.
- Abstract
- Sample Abstract
Each ETD must be accompanied by an abstract that has been approved by the student's committee. Abstracts will be part of the bibliographic record in the library's online catalog. Abstracts must be limited to 350 words. Additionally, abstracts for dissertations will be published in Dissertation Abstracts. - Copyright Page
- In any work, copyright implicitly devolves to the author of that work. One may make this statement of ownership explicit, however, by including a copyright notice, such as "Copyright 1998, John J. Smith." Additionally, you may pay to register your copyright with the U.S. Copyright Office through UMI.
- Dedication (optional)
- You may provide a dedication.
- Author's Acknowledgments (optional)
- Here you may acknowledge those that assisted you in your work.
- Grant Information (optional)
- You may acknowledge any granting institution here.
- Table of Contents
- Include the chapter and section numbers and title along with the page on which each chapter or section begins.
- Lists of Multimedia Objects
- For each multimedia type (table, graph, diagram, equation, etc.) list the number and title of the object and the page on which it occurs.
