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UP Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Submission Guidelines: Submit Your Thesis/Dissertation

• The ETD Approval/Submission Form
• Electronic Theses/Dissertations
• Getting Permissions and Fair Use
• Faculty Guidelines
• Electronic Thesis/Dissertations
• Publish Open Access at no cost to you This link opens in a new window

COMPLETE ALL THE STEPS FROM 1 - 5

• STEP 1: Before you submit "read the UP POLICIES"
• STEP 2: What to submit?
• STEP 3: How to submit on UPSpace?
• STEP 4: Researcher Profile Account
• STEP 5: Checklist

Before self-submissions, all Masters and Doctoral students completing a thesis must: 

• Policy on Electronic Theses and Dissertations
• UP Online Thesis/Dissertation Submission Workflow
• UP Metadata Management Workflow for Open Access Articles
• UP ETD Metadata Management Workflow
• Publishing a Thesis or Dissertation as a Book workflow

All Masters and Doctoral students completing a thesis MUST:

• ETD and research data self_submission process

Login or Register

Please note that you will have to be registered on UPSpace for you to be able to submit. If you are not registered you will have to follow the steps below and complete the  registration  process or  login  if you have a UPSpace account.

UPSpace  registration  and  login         

ETD Self-Submission Guidelines (PDF)

After creating a researcher profile account make sure you have submitted the listed items to your  Supervisor,  Faculty Postgraduate Officer ,  and the   Institutional Repository Administrator  at  [email protected]  

Below is a summary of how to promote your theses/dissertation

• Register for an Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) account
• The benefit of an ORCID account is to connect your ORCID iD to your thesis/dissertation so that other researchers can easily discover and distinguish your work from others
• Add your thesis/ dissertation on ORCID. What is ORCID? Below is a list of video recordings and guides on how to register and create an account on ORCID: 
• What is ORCID?
• Register for your ORCID ID
• How to reset your ORCID password?
• A Quick Tour of the ORCID Record
• How to add publications (thesis/dissertation) into your ORCID? This guide  contains a  manual  with  illustrative examples on how to add publications
• Proce ed to  Step 5: "Checklist"
• Add your thesis/Dissertation handle/link on ORCID

Please make sure you have done the following: 

• Submitted final approved thesis/dissertation on UPSpace
• You have the proof of submission
• Submitted final approved thesis/dissertation research data in the UP Research Data Repository (Figshare)
• Created an ORCID account
• Added the UPSpace thesis/dissertation handle/link in your ORCID profile.
• Created a  Google Scholar account 
• Added the Google Scholar Profile link (public view profile) in your ORCID profile.
• Guidance on ETDs, Research Data, and Self-submissions

Email the following: 

• Proof of thesis/dissertation submission
• Thesis/dissertation handle or link - example:  http://hdl.handle.net/2263/84072
• Signed thesis submission form
• (example:  https://doi.org/10.25403/UPresearchdata.19123310.v1 ) 
• ORCID profile link - example :    https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1154-0606
• Google scholar Public Profile link - example:  https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&authuser=1&user=71WSjHIAAAAJ )
• Email all the above-listed items to  [email protected]   and  [email protected]

An example of a thesis/dissertation added to the ORCID profile 

An example of a Google Scholar public profile

Thesis/dissertation will be automatically added into a Google Scholar profile as soon as it becomes available on UPSpace

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Formatting Your Dissertation (or Thesis): Title Page

• Table of Contents
• List of Figures and Tables
• Chapters and Sections
• References or Bibliography
• Font and Typography
• Margins and Page Layout
• Headings and Subheadings
• Pagination and Page Numbering
• Change page orientation
• Add a border to a page
• Insert page numbers
• Change margins
• Microsoft Word Tips and Tricks
• Managing Images and Graphics
• Collaboration Tools and Version Control
• Templates and Style Guides
• Checking for Consistency and Coherence
• Grammar and Spelling
• Formatting Checks
• Seeking Feedback and Peer Review
• Professional Editing Services

The title page is the first page of your dissertation or thesis and includes the title, your name, the degree you are pursuing, your university's name, and the submission date. Follow your university's specific guidelines for formatting the title page.

Choose a cover page and replace the sample text with your own

On the  Insert  tab, in the  Pages  group, click  Cover Page .

Click a cover page layout from the gallery of options.

After you insert a cover page, you can replace the sample text with your own text by clicking to select an area of the cover page, such as the title, and typing your text.

If you insert another cover page in the document, the new cover page will replace the first cover page you inserted.

To replace a cover page created in an earlier version of Word, you must delete the first cover page manually, and then add a cover page with a design from the Word gallery.

To delete a cover page inserted with Word, click the  Insert  tab, click  Cover pages  in the  Pages  group, and then click  Remove Current Cover Page .

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MS Word Cover Page Templates

Download, personalize & print, university assignment cover pages.

Posted By: admin 10/11/2018

Almost in every university, making assignments is compulsory for the students. The university students get the assignment because of many benefits. One of the primary purposes of assigning an assignment to students is to make them a good communicator since the university studies enhance the confidence in the student and make them more diligent. The assignments in universities also make the students disciplines since they are given a deadline to complete and submit the assignment.

One of the most important parts of the assignment is the assignment cover page . Although it is the most overlooked part of the assignment, the cover page can help the student in grabbing the attention of the teacher.

Sometimes, adding the cover page to the assignment is the policy of the university where it becomes compulsory for the student to make a cover page along with the assignment. However, most of the students in different universities do the cover page even if it is not compulsory.

What is the format of the university cover pages?

Generally, the students in university assignments follow the MLA format. The name and the title of the assignment are written on the first page of the assignment and that page is regarded as the cover page.

However, in some cases, the teacher asks the student to make a separate cover page and then use it to represent the assignment by adding it before the assignment’s first page. The cover page with appropriate information helps the teacher in getting a clear idea about the content of the assignment.

What are the key elements of the cover page?

Assignment title:.

The title of the assignment is the main part of the cover page that takes most of the space of this page. The title name of the assignment is usually added to the top of the page. The title can be written in the center of the page.

Name of student:

Since every cover page includes the name of the author, the assignment’s author’s name should also be written on the cover page. The author of the assignment is a student. The name, registration number, section name should be mentioned.

Academic details:

The student in a university is identified by his academic details. The academic details of the student include the name of the professor, class name, section number, total credit hours of the subject, subject name, and a lot more.

Benefits of assignment cover page:

Assignment cover page is a useful thing for those students who want to adopt professionals in their assignments. Being accustomed to making assignments helps the student in his practical and professional life later when he has to submit project reports etc.

The student should not forget that the cover page is being used to represent the content that has been added to the assignment. The cover page should completely be in accordance with the content of the assignment. In other words, it should reflect the assignment well.

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