Citation of a Thesis: Advice
A first reference to a thesis or dissertation should include the following information:
- Author's name (followed by a comma)
- Title of thesis (in single quotation marks, not italicised)
- Details of 'Production' (enclosed in parentheses):
- The degree level (prefaced by the word unpublished, followed by a comma)
- The name of the university (followed by a comma)
- The year of award
- Page number(s) (preceded by 'p.' or 'pp.'; followed by a full stop)
For instance:
Kate Harris, ‘Ownership and Readership: Studies in the Provenance of the Manuscripts of Gower’s Confessio Amantis’ (unpublished DPhil thesis, University of York, 1993), p. 10.Or:
Stephanie Hovland, ‘Apprenticeship in Later Medieval London, c.1300-c.1530’ (unpublished PhD thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2006), p. 101.
