IBC MA Thesis Guidelines
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Thesis requirements To IBC MA graduate students: Please send your MA thesis soft copy to IBC e-Library. Or Email to Librarian An or Dr. Fa Qing
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Guidelines for Thesis Submission
1. Use one font for your whole essay
Gandhari Unicode, New Time Roman (Windows) and DejaVu Serif (Linux) are recommended.
2. For the Text Body, use "Double Space", font size 12 point or 11 point (if laser printer used).
3. You can use single space for "quotation paragraph and footnotes."
4. For the Headings, one can use bold, and bigger font size can be used (16, 14).
5. It is recommended to use style format (Do not format manually), such as Heading 1, Heading 2, Heading 3, Body Text, Quote, Title.
Heading 1 (font size 16)
Heading 2 (font size 14, Bold)
Heading 3 (font size 14)
Heading 4 (font size 12, Bold)
Body Text (font size 12)
6. Page size is A4, all margins (top, down, left and right) should be set as 1 inche. Left margin can be 1.25 for the purpose of binding.
7. For Romanized Pali and Sanskrit letters, the following Unicode fonts are recommended.
New Time Roman (version 5, from Windows Vista supports all Pali Diacritic Letters) is recommended for MS Windows
Gandhari Unicode (Download attached zip file below)
For Linux, the following fonts are recommended. They support all romanized Pali and Sanskrit diacritic letters.
*DejaVu Serif
*Bitstream Vera Serif
*FreeSerit
Guidelines for typing Pali and Sanskrit
How to type Pali in MS Word?
http://ibc.ac.th/faqing/howto-type-pali-in-word
How to input/type Romanized Pali and Sanskrit in Openoffice 3
http://thanhsiang.org/faqing/node/24
Unicode Fonts for inputting Romanized Pali and Sanskrit
http://ibc.ac.th/faqing/node/33
How to write a research paper
http://ibc.ac.th/faqing/essayguide
Unicode Romanized Pali and Sanskrit Fonts
http://dejavu-fonts.org
Gandhari Unicode: A Unicode font for transliteration of Gāndhārī, Sanskrit and other languages.
http://andrewglass.org/fonts.php
MLA Style Guide
MLA (Modern Language Association) Style
http://www.mla.org/style
A good website explains how to use MLA style
http://webster.commnet.edu/mla/sample.shtml
http://healthlinks.washington.edu/hsl/styleguides/mla.html
Based on the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing, New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1998.
Please Note: In the bibliography, all lines after the first should be indented.
Citing Print Resources
| Type of Entry | Bibliography | Footnote |
|---|---|---|
| Book with one author | Frye, Northrop. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1957. |
1 Northrop Frye, Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1957) 32-34. |
| Book with more than one author | Bonadella, Peter, and Julie Conaway Bonadella, eds. Dictionary of Italian Literature. Westport: Greenwood, 1979. | 2 Peter Bonadella, and Julie Conaway Bonadella, eds., Dictionary of Italian Literature (Westport: Greenwood, 1979). |
| Anonymous Author | "Portents for Future Learning." Time 21 Sept. 1981: 65. | 3 "Portents for Future Learning," Time 21 Sept. 1981: 65. |
| Multi-volume set | Churchill, Winston S. The Age of Revolution. New York: Dodd, 1957. Vol. 3 of A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. 4 vols. 1956-58. |
4 Winston S. Churchill, The Age of Revolution, (New York: Dodd, 1957). Vol. 3 of A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. 4 vols. 1956-58. |
| Journal article (continuous pagination) | Spear, Karen. "Building Cognitive Skills in Basic Writers." Teaching English in the Two Year College 9 (1983): 91-98. |
5 Karen Spear, "Building Cognitive Skills in Basic Writers," Teaching English in the Two Year College 9 (1983): 91-98. |
| Journal article (paginated by issue) | Monk, Patricia. "Frankenstein's Daughters: The Problems of the Feminine Image in Science Fiction." Mosaic 13.3-4 (1980): 15-27. |
6 Patricia Monk, "Frankenstein's Daughters: The Problems of the Feminine Image in Science Fiction," Mosaic 13.3-4 (1980): 15-27. |
| Newspaper article | Dalin, Damon. "A $7 Greeting Card? Yes, But listen to the Melody It Will Play For You." Wall Street Journal 10 May 1983, eastern ed.: 37. |
7 Damon Dalin, "A $7 Greeting Card? Yes, But listen to the Melody It Will Play For You," Wall Street Journal 10 May 1983, eastern ed.: 37. |
Citing Electronic Resources
| Type of Entry | Bibliography | Footnote |
|---|---|---|
| Online journal (using volume and page format) | Simon, Joal A., Esther S. Hudes. "Relationship of Ascorbic Acid to Blood Lead Levels."JAMA 281 (1999): 2289-2293. 24 Aug. 1999 <http://www.ama-assn.org/ sci-pubs/journals/archive/jama/vol_281/no_24/joc81766.htm>. |
8Joal A. Simon and Esther S. Hudes, "Relationship of Ascorbic Acid to Blood Lead Levels," JAMA 281 (1999): 2289-2293, 24 Aug. 1999 <http://www.ama-assn.org/sci-pubs/ journals/archive/jama/vol_281/no_24/joc81766.htm>. |
| Online journal (no volume or page information) | "A New Treatment for Low Back Pain." Alternative Health News Online 22 Oct.1998. 24 Aug. 1999 <http://www.altmedicine.com/app/ archive.cfm?article=1519&searchquery=pain management>. |
9 "A New Treatment for Low Back Pain," Alternative Health News Online 22 Oct.1998, 24 Aug. 1999 <http://www.altmedicine.com/app/ archive.cfm?article=1519&searchquery=pain management> |
| Online Database or Web Site | The THCME Medical Biochemistry Page. Ed. Michael W. King. August 16, 1999. Terre Haute Center for Medical Education. 24 Aug. 1999 <http://web.indstate.edu/ thcme/mwking/home.html>. |
10 The THCME Medical Biochemistry Page, ed. Michael W. King, August 16, 1999, Terre Haute Center for Medical Education, 24 Aug. 1999 <http://web.indstate.edu/thcme/mwking/home.html>. |
For more information on how to reference electronic sources, see Frequently Asked Questions about MLA Style
MLA 2009 Sample Entries
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/15/
Before the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (7th edition) arrives, refer to the following preview. Each entry highlights changes in the new edition.
- Book:
Book citations remain largely the same except for the addition of the medium of publication, Print, at the end of the entry.
Carré, John le. The Tailor of Panama. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. Print.
- Scholarly Publication (Journal):
Regardless of pagination, all scholarly publication citations include both volume and issue numbers. End citations with the medium of publication, Print.
Aldrich, Frederick A. and Margueritte L. Marks. "Wyman Reed Green, American Biologist." Bios 23.1 (1952): 26-35. Print.
- Online Periodical:
Online periodicals include both the name of the website in italics and the website publisher. Note that some sites will have different names than their print formats, such as ones that include a domain name like .com or .org. If no publisher is listed, use N.p. to denote no publisher name given. Follow with date of publication, Web as medium of publication, and date of access.
Lubell, Sam. "Of the Sea and Air and Sky." New York Times. New York Times, 26 Nov. 2008. Web. 1 Dec. 2008.
Cohen, Elizabeth. "Five Ways to Avoid Germs While Traveling." CNN.com. CNN, 27 Nov. 2008. Web. 28 Nov. 2008.
- Online Database Scholarly Journal Article:
Cite online journal articles from an online database as you would a print one. Provide the database name in italics. Library information is no longer required. List the medium of publication as Web and end
with the date of access.
Berger, James D. and Helmut J. Schmidt. "Regulation of Macronuclear DNA Content in Paramecium Tetraurelia." The Journal of Cell Biology 76.1 (1978): 116-126. JSTOR. Web. 20 Nov. 2008.
- Online-only Publication:
For articles that appear in an online-only format or in databases that do not provide a page number, use the abbreviation n. pag. for no pagination. End the citation with the medium of publication,
Web, and the date of access.
Kessl, Fabian, and Nadia Kutsche. "Rationalities, Practices, and Resistance in Post-Welfarism. A Comment on Kevin Stenson." Social Work & Society 6.1 (2008): n. pag. Web. 10 Oct. 2008.
- Online Scholarly Project:
Online scholarly projects appear italicized. Difficult-to-find projects may be listed in quotation marks with the website name and domain in italics. Publication location and date follows. Web medium of publication and date of access end the entry.
Kline, Daniel T., ed. Geoffrey Chaucer Online: The Electronic Canterbury Tales. U of Alaska Anchorage, 30 Jul. 2007. Web. 2 Dec. 2008.
Attached Files Explained
1. How to write a term paper PDF
2. Term Paper Sample PDF
3. MA Thesis Style Guide PDF
4. MA Thesis Sample PDF
5. New Times Roman fonts from Windows Vista ZIP
6. Gandhari Uincode fontsv5 zip
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