UWI THESIS GUIDE: at-a-glance for the Faculty of Medical Sciences (UWISTA): TEXT OF THESIS

• Appears immediately after the preliminary pages

• DM Clinical Research Projects not to exceed 20,000 words, not less than 8,000 words *
• MPhil  not to exceed 50, 000 words *
• PhD not to exceed 80,000 words *

            * excluding references, appendices, tables and figures

• Begin on a new page
• Major headings: bold, 1.5 spacing, all caps

• Avoid widows and orphans - these are short single lines carried over to the top or bottom of a page respectively
• Brackets: use square brackets [xxx] S
• Superscript: superscripts is not used in the Vancouver style e.g. 10th not 10^th 
• Italics: use for scientific terminology only 

• 1.5
• Paragraph spacing: double spacing or indent

• Left margin: 2 inches/ 5cm

• Right, top, bottom margins: 1 inch/ 2.5 cm

• Must be typed, not hand-written

• Left or fully justified but must be consistent throughout the document

• Arabic numerals starting with '1'
• Do not number pages with 'a' or 'b'
• Top right hand corner of the page

• Quotations of more than 2 lines should be set off from the text and indented 5 spaces away from the margin
• Per Vancouver style, citation numbers appear inline with the text and the corresponding citation number is placed in square brackets: Kumar [5] stated that ....
• Punctuation: place citation numbers AFTER full stops and commas: e.g. as evidenced from a recent Chinese controlled trial. [45]
• Punctuation: place colons and semi-colons to the LEFT or INSIDE 
• Punctuation: when citing multiple references, a hyphen is used to indicate a series of inclusive citation numbers  e.g. five studies (3-7) and a comma is used to indicate a series of non-inclusive numbers (4,7,9,11,19)

• Per Vancouver style, not accommodated in the body of the text

• Place close to the discussion point
• Tables are labelled above and centred 
• Figures are labelled below and centred 
• Font size 9 may be used within tables and figures but the text must be very legible
• Use a coLon or full stop to separate the words 'table" and "figure" from their respective titles; be consistent for throughout the thesis

• Appendices; ideally not more than 20% of the thesis but exceptions are accepted
• Appendices: pages continue to be numbered in Arabic
• Appendices: in the Vancouver style these are labeled by numbers not letters