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Font Options

Choose one single font, color and size to use throughout the manuscript (front matter, headings, and body), bar acceptable exceptions for footnotes, tables, table captions, figures and figure captions, which are noted below.

Choose a single font typeface for use throughout the thesis/dissertation, with the exception of figures. You may have a different font style within figures you create or use with permission to reprint. 

Choose a common True-Type font generally found on most computers (this prevents conversion issues when converted to a PDF for publishing). Recommended choices are:

Arial	Book Antiqua	Corbel	Courier New
Garamond	Georgia	Gill Sans	Goudy Old Style
Palatino Linotype	Tahoma	Times New Roman	Trebuchet MS
Verdana	Calibri

Students using LaTeX may use Computer Modern Roman.

Choose one primary font size, 10 pt., 11 pt., or 12 pt., and use this one chosen size throughout for main body text, headings, and page numbers.

Tables, figures, table captions, figure captions, and footnotes, may be reduced as low as 8 pt.

• Table captions, figure captions and footnotes must be consistent within their element but do not have to be consistent with other elements. (Example: table captions all at 12 pt., Figure captions all at 10 pt., and footnotes all at 8 pt.).
• Figures and Tables can vary in size but cannot go below 8 pt and must remain legible.
• Footnotes should be smaller than the body text, but no smaller than 8 pt.

Manuscripts may contain all common font styles, such as boldface, italics, and underline. The use of the style must be consistent throughout the manuscript. Use of color must be purposeful or a standard genre convention within the student鈥檚 discipline.

We typically reserve styling of text for Titles/Headings and discourage excessive use of bolding or italicizing. However, we recognize that bolding and italicizing to emphasize certain elements within the text is standard in some disciplines.  

Examples of the most common acceptable uses:

• Bolding or italicizing figure and table numbers within the body text
• Definitions, Axioms, Theorems, Propositions, Lemmas, Corollaries, and Examples in Math ETDs can be bold and numbered and not considered a heading that needs to be placed in the TOC, as this serves to enhance clarity and organization for the reader even as they are not a heading for a section of the chapter. However, they cannot be styled the same as a level heading, as that would cause confusion.
• Items like Hypotheses: or Research Question: can also be bolded and not treated as a section heading if there is a colon and it is preceding an explanation.