A-manual-for-writers-of-research-papers-theses-and-dissertations

If your thesis or dissertation will be bound in more than one volume (see A.1.4), you willprobably need to provide separate title pages for each volume. Consult your local guidelines.COPYRIGHT OR BLANK PAGE. In a thesis or dissertation, insert a copyright page after the titlepage. Count this page as page ii, but do not put that number on it unless directed by your localguidelines. Include the copyright notice near the bottom of this page, usually flush left, in thisform:Copyright © 20XX by Your NameAll rights reservedYou need not apply for a formal copyright because this notice legally establishes yourcopyright.If you do not need to include a copyright notice in your paper, you may insert a blank sheetin its place or omit this element, depending on your local guidelines.DEDICATION. If your department or university allows dedications, you may include a briefone to acknowledge someone who has been especially important to you. Count the dedicationpage in paginating the front matter, but do not put a page number on it unless directed by yourlocal guidelines. Place the dedication a third of the way down, usually centered, and set it inroman type with no terminal punctuation. You need not include the words dedication ordedicated; simply say to:To AnikaYou may identify the person to whom you dedicate the work (“To my father, SebastianWells”) or give other information such as birth and death dates. More extravagant dedicationsare outdated, and humorous ones rarely stand the test of time.EPIGRAPH. If your department or university allows epigraphs, you may include a brief one inaddition to or instead of a dedication. An epigraph is a quotation that establishes a theme ofthe paper. It is most appropriate when its words are especially striking and uniquely capturethe spirit of your work. Count the epigraph page in paginating the front matter, but do not puta page number on it unless directed by your local guidelines. You need not include the wordepigraph on the page.Place the epigraph a third of the way down the page, either centered or treated like a blockquotation (see 25.2.2). Do not enclose it in quotation marks. On the line following theepigraph, usually flush right, give its source—the author's name, the title of the work (see22.3.2), and, if you wish, the date of the quotation, preceded by an em dash (or two hyphens;see 21.7.2):Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand . . . and, as one small candlemay light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.Some people think the women are the cause of modernism, whatever that is.—William Bradfordwww.itpub.net