Submit a Thesis
Attention Honours and Graduate Students
You are required to submit an electronic copy of your thesis to the library.
- Acadia theses will be available to anyone searching the library catalogue or our digital collections.
- You will have permanent access to your thesis online in Acadia Scholar.
You may be prompted to log in to your Office 365 account in order to submit your thesis.
Click here to submit an Honours Thesis
Click here to submit a Masters or PhD Thesis
Click here to submit an ADC MA Thesis or DMIN Project
For further information contact your liaison librarian.
For submission issues contact etheses@acadiau.ca.
Thesis Templates
The thesis templates and usage guide are provided to help students write a thesis more easily by providing a template and set of instructions for using the features of Word and Zotero which are useful for writing large documents. It is our hope that it should be significantly easier to work on a template that is completed with many of the format requirements of the thesis than to start fresh.
Templates are provided for MS Word and for LaTeX. Most students will use the Word templates. However, most students in Math and Computer Science will use the LaTeX templates. LaTeX has a significant degree of strength in writing documents with a significant amount of mathematics content and other content with very fine formatting requirements, and may be of interest to some other students with those needs. The Word template has been used with LibreOffice/OpenOffice; however, it does not do many of the automated tasks when used in LibreOffice/OpenOffice, but it does save time in that many initial formatting tasks and preliminary pages have already been done.
Note: Although the templates are prepared with some care, not all requirements can be perfectly replicated in a template, and your department and supervisor(s) may have different requirements. Please make sure to consult your supervisor and the Research and Graduate Studies regulations about specific requirements.
Template and Guide Files
If your discipline is listed in the table below, please use the templates and guide appropriate to the discipline. Otherwise, use the 'General' template.
| Discipline | Format | Honours | Masters | Zotero Citation and Reference Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Psychology | Word | Template, Guide | TBD | APA Style already comes with Zotero |
| Sociology | Word | Template, Guide | Template, Guide | ASA Style (last updated September 22, 2014) |
| General | Word | Template, Guide | Template, Guide | Use a style specific to your discipline. The repository for Zotero styles can be found here. |
| General | LaTeX | Template, Guide | Template, Guide | Normally, with LaTeX, you will use the BibTeX for your reference list and bibliography generation. If using Zotero to manage your references, you can save your references to a bibtex file (in the templates, this is thesisbib.bib) before building your pdf file. MIT has produced a good guide on using Zotero with BibTeX/LaTeX. |