Dissertation Formatting & Research  

Your advisor will give the most important feedback about citation approaches and rules. However, feel free to contact me (Gay Carter) for help with citing sources in APA format.

The 6th edition of the APA Publication Manual is your essential guide.

If you are a student in the doctoral program in the UHCL School of Education you probably know already that you will eventually need to have the formatting of your dissertation checked by the library to see that it meets UHCL specifications. In most cases that means that you will meet with me to go over the formatting guidelines and also for the submission of the final copies and related materials.

The links at the left are important for getting the right information about the library format check, but for more detail about the dissertation process and dissertation formatting, you should consult the Dissertation Guide from the School of Education.

In addition to the basics of making sure that the UHCL formatting is correct, you can call on me or other reference librarians for assistance with research techniques for your literature search. Call me, email me or fill out the online request for a research consultation.

The following resource guides may help get you started: