Typeface and Size
Do not use ornamental typefaces. A serif font is required within the body of the document and preferred throughout, although some exceptions can be made in other areas, with approval of the Graduate School. Generally, use 12-point size throughout the document, although 10-point type may be used for notes to tables/figures and in footnotes and endnotes. Type that is 14-point or larger is not acceptable in text or tables. Within maps and other figures, a range of type sizes is acceptable, so long as reduction to page size does not render lettering and numbering illegible. Italicize rather than underscore. Bolding generally is not used anywhere in the document.

Margins
All typing (except for pagination) and all parts of tables, figures, and appendices must fit within the specified margins: 1.25 inches on the left and 1.25 inches on the right margins; 1.0 inch at top (unless otherwise specified) and 1.0 inch on the bottom.

Spacing
Double-space the text throughout except for the following: Captions for tables and legends for figures are single-spaced. Block quotations are single-spaced. In the bibliography, single-space within entries, but double-space between entries. Likewise, footnotes or endnotes are single-spaced within and double-spaced between. Do not allow typed pages to have "widows" (a single line that ends a paragraph and is printed alone at the top of the next page) and "orphans" (the first line of a paragraph stranded at the bottom line of a page). Avoid breaking bibliography entries onto a following page. Use two spaces between sentences.