Cover page – see appendix
1st page – blank page
Title page – see appendix
1. Table
of contents (with page numbers)
2. Acknowledgements (if any)
3. Introduction
(goals, relevance of the topic, structure)
4. Main
part (a comprehensive review of the relevant literature, hypothesis, methods,
results, discussion, policy recommendations if relevant – it may contain
chapter divisions)
5. Summary
(short summary of the relevant findings, possibilities for future research)
6. Bibliography
(all literature used)
7. Appendices
(graphs, illustrations, photographs, questionnaires, detailed statistical descriptions,
source texts, raw data etc.)
8.
One-page summary with keywords
(topic/focus of the thesis, hypothesis, methods, most important results; up to
5 keywords)
9.
Declaration (see appendix)
Formal criteria of the thesis
Page size: A4, one-sided printed
Margins: 2,5 cm each side; on the left side 3,5cm
Font: Times New Roman; font size 12-point
Line spacing: 1.5
Chapters: numbered with Arabic numerals; 1.; 1.1.; 1.1.1; 1.2; 2.; etc.;
Font: Times New Roman; font size 14-12-points (main chapters size 14, subchapters
size 13; sub-subchapters size 12); bold. Spacing: before and after subchapters
1 enter (1 white line)
Main chapters (1; 2; etc) start on a new page.
Figures: in appropriate size and if needed in color; Caption: Times New
Roman; font size 10; single spacing. Figures and graphs have to be readable.
Before and after figures 1 enter (1 white line).
Tables: Times New Roman; font size 10; single spacing; numbered; Caption:
Times New Roman; font size 10; single spacing. Before and after tables 1 enter
(1 white line).
Alignment: text
body: justified; Chapter names: on the left; Tables, figures and table and
figure captions: centered
Pagination: 1st
page is the title page (page numbers do not appear on the title page); every
other page is paginated; the positioning of page numbers is at the bottom,
middle of the page.
Footnotes: comments
and additions which are less relevant to the topic but should be mentioned may
come into footnotes. Footnotes are placed at the bottom of the page, and are
numbered starting from 1. Font: Times New Roman; font size 10; single spacing.
Citations and quotations
– see below
Bibliography – see
below
Citation and quotations
Citations refer to thoughts
and ideas written by somebody else. After the referred thought / idea of others
the author you refer to, and the year are in brackets: ……. (Miszlivetz 2008),
if exact page numbers are appropriate, the in-text citation looks like this:
(Miszlivetz 2008: 121). In the bibliography if a number of works appear from
the same author in the same year, then they are referred to in alphabetical
order according to title, with letters after the year: Holland 2005a; Holland 2005b;
Holland 2005c etc.
If the citations are
from more than one author, then the cited authors are in alphabetical order.
Quotations are copied
words / sentences of other authors and placed in quotation marks (“…“). After the second
quotation mark the name of the author, year and page number are in brackets: “….” (Jensen 2004: 35).
Alterations to quotations (e.g. addition of words, endings, deleted words etc.)
are in square brackets […]. Quotation marks inside the quotations are single: ‘….’ .
Quotations longer
than 3 lines are indented, into a block (1cm from left, justified, Font: Times
New Roman; font size 10; single spacing)
Bibliography
Hanging indent, 1 cm
Font: Times New Roman 12; Line spacing 1,5.
No white line between the entries.
The bibliography is in alphabetical order.