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Dissertation Page: Summarizing the Rules of Page Numbering
If you present some controversial statement in your dissertation, you will have an opportunity to explain and to defend it. If you know your research has some points to improve, you will touch on this matter when writing about limitations.
But how are you going to explain why you typed page numbers in a wrong way? Dissertation format is an extremely important matter to consider, and in this article, we summarize what a student should remember about dissertation pages.
Dissertation page numbering
- title page, copyright page, certification page etc are not numbered, though they are included to the page count (correspondingly, a title page has the number “i”)
- all other dissertation pages should be numbered
- pretext dissertation pages are numbered with lower-case Roman numerals: i, iv etc
- each text dissertation page is numbered with an Arabic numeral. Numbering starts with a numeral “1”.
Where to put dissertation page numbers
There is no single answer for this question. In the majority of cases, a dissertation page number is typed centered at the bottom of the page. However, sometimes it is required that a dissertation page number is typed ½ inch from the bottom edge; in some other cases, it is required to be typed 1 inch from the bottom edge.
As the bottom margin is mostly required to be 1 inch, the commonly used variant is typing page numbers ½ inch from the bottom edge. Besides, sometimes it is required to type dissertation page numbers at the upper right corner of the page.
Make sure that dissertation page numbers are typed at the same place through the whole paper.
Inserting dissertation page numbers
Remember that dissertation page numbers are inserted not by means of the option “Insert – Page Numbers”, but in footers or headers.
