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Graduate Editorial at UF

The UF Graduate School Editorial Office is here to serve students, faculty and staff with thesis, dissertation and curriculum issues.

For students, it oversees the thesis/dissertation process, offering help and guidance to ensure their theses and dissertations meet UF's high standards and are ready for electronic submission and digital archiving. It answers questions about format and reference systems; tables, figures and equations; and copyright and documentation issues. It also provides referrals to editors and formatters for hire. It does not examine or critique content, scholarship, research methods or writing style, which is the responsibility of the student and his/her supervisory committee.

For faculty and staff, it coordinates the UF Graduate Catalog and meetings of the UF Graduate Curriculum Committee, maintaining a database of graduate course proposals and approvals.

Getting Started: The ETD Lab

Before you start writing your thesis or dissertation, learn about the formatting template and find out about technical support from the ETD (Electronic Thesis and Dissertation) Lab, which offers tutorials, workshops and individual help from ETD technical consultants. For first submission of your thesis or dissertation on paper, they can show you how to fix its formatting before you print it. For final electronic submission, they can show you how to create the final PDF file and input links in it. For more information about the ETD Lab, click on this link: ETD Lab.

The Thesis/Dissertation Process

At paper first submission, the Editorial Office briefly examines each thesis or dissertation for overall format and mechanics:
— Margins, page numbering and sequence.
— Consistent use of one reference system.
— Table of contents: organization, logical hierarchy and correct formatting of subheadings.
— Continuity of text flow throughout each chapter (with no gaps at the bottom of the page containing paragraph text).
— Properly formatted tables, figures and equations (if any); list of tables; and list of figures.

Electronic Final Submission

At electronic final submission, all changes to your thesis or dissertation ought to have been made, so the Editorial Office can quickly check the links and accept the ETD. On behalf of the UF Graduate School dean and the UF Libraries system, the Editorial Office makes sure each ETD meets all requirements for archiving, preserving and publishing.

Working together with you, the UF Graduate School Editorial Office helps improve the value of your ETD to you, the University of Florida and the scholarly community at large.

E-Mail

E-mail questions related to thesis and dissertation issues to:

gradedit@aa.ufl.edu

Staff

Stacy Wallace
Coordinator
beloved@ufl.edu

Lisa De LaCure
Editor
delacure@ufl.edu

Anna Pardo
Editor
annadpardo@ufl.edu

Mailing Address, Telephone and Fax

UF Graduate School Editorial Office
POB 118461 (224B The Hub)
Gainesville FL 32611-8461
USA

352 392 1282 (telephone)
352 846 1855 (fax)

gradedit@aa.ufl.edu