It is common for students to have trouble maintaining this consistency - often thanks to difficulty with Microsoft Word. Throughout your ETD, all text must start at the very top of the page. See the Tables and Figures page for more info. Tables or images may have to be re-sized to fit within the margin. All body text, tables, figures, appendices content, and any copies of published chapters must fit within the required 1-inch margins on all sides.The top, bottom, and right margins are required to be 1 inch, but the left margin can either be 1 inch or 1.25 inches.Page margins should be consistent throughout the text. Your document should not have a running header that appears at the top of each page.These can be formatted differently than required or chapter headers, as long as there is a consistent style from chapter to chapter. It is common for a chapter to have multiple levels of section headers.Chapter headers are the only headers that can start lower on the page and be stylized in any manner, as long as they are consistent on each chapter title page.They must start at the very top of the page, on the first line, within the 1-inch margin. Headers for all required pages must be consistently formatted they should be the same size, font, and style, and located in the same position on each page.Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP).Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD).
