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Centria Guide for Thesis and Academic Writing

Contents

The table of contents is called CONTENTS and it should be concise, but also informative. A well-organized table of contents enables the reader to understand the structure of the whole thesis.

The contents can include headings on no more than three different levels. Every subchapter’s numbering starts on the page where the previous level’s title starts. All headings in the contents are included exactly as they are in the text. The font size for the titles in the contents is 12 pt.

It is recommended to create the table of contents automatically and thus ensure that the headings match the ones in the text. The ABSTRACT and CONCEPT DEFINITIONS are written before the word CONTENTS, followed by a blank space. At the end of the table of contents REFERENCES and APPENDICES are written without chapter numbering. After the appendices there is a blank line space, followed by the lists of FIGURES, PICTURES and TABLES as shown in the picture.

 

A model of thesis contents

When using the ready-made Word template all settings are correct.