Templates

The Thesis & Dissertation Support Center maintains templates for MS Word and LaTeX in an effort to make adhering to the Graduate Editorial Office Publication Standards a little easier.

The Word file can be used by both Mac and PC users (see the note to Mac users below). These templates are provided in the current .docx format.

The LaTeX  legacy Template owes a huge debt of gratitude to Ron Smith for developing the ufthesis.cls file. The 2019 version is owed thanks to Jason Nowell.

Thesis and Dissertation formatting requirements are the same for all students. Guidelines and requirements are available in the Editorial Office’s GRADUATE SCHOOL FORMATTING GUIDE

MS Word

MS Word Template - Arial

The standard template that most students should use. This document uses custom Word “styles” to help format your document to meet Editorial Office Guidelines.

IF USING MACBOOKS: MS Word on a Macintosh may make the Table of Contents, List of Figures, and List of Tables links not direct to the correct location in the document. When saving your document as a PDF, please make sure to select "Best for electronic distribution and accessibility." If this does not work for you and the links are still not working, you must make some arrangement to convert to PDF over PC. The easiest method is to fully update these tables one last time and convert to pdf on a Windows Machine just before uploading to the Editorial Document Management System. If you do not have any access to a Windows machine, please email TandDSupport-hd@ufl.edu requesting PDF conversion.

MS Word Template - Times

A few people prefer to use Times New Roman (Note: while Times New Roman is a very good font in the hard copy version, Arial is a superior font for readability on a computer screen) Please use this version if you are going to use Times New Roman.

LaTeX

A LaTex editor should be used when comping either version of the LaTex template. Our office highly suggests the use of Overleaf as UF provided a free account to its users.

LaTeX Template

Because of the nature of the Editorial Office’s requirements, we have had to adapt by using many modified environments that shows log errors. This is normal as long as it does not cause a compiling error. Please reach out for assistance if you have any questions.