Formating your Thesis

For more tutorials from the Rizzo Group go here: Rizzo Lab Information and Tutorials

This is ment to aid in formating a thesis or diseratation.

For gratuate students at stony brook university see the following Graduate School link [1].

Note that different departments might also have there own requierments.

For Word 2003

Uses the style feild in the formatting toolbar to set text as headings.

• Insert the table of contents by going to:
• Insert --> Reference --> Index and Tables.
• Click the Table of Contents tab
• See the following link for more info [2]

For example, a chapter Title might have the formate style Header 1. Each Section title of the chapter might have format stile Header 2.

To insert a figure/table caption:

• Insert --> Reference --> Caption

• To insert a caption with the label "Figure 1-#"

• • click the add new label and type "Figure1-"

• • Then click ok

• Select the label you want and click ok.

• See the following link for more info [3]

Add the title of the figure on the same line and the rest of the caption on the next line.

To insert the Table of Figures

• Insert --> Reference --> Index and Tables

• Click on Table of Figures

• select the appropriate Caption label

Repeat for all appropriate Caption label