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Assistance with the ETD Process

ETD Formatting Made Easy     

The University of Miami Libraries have a step-by-step video guide, ETD Formatting Made Easy. Topics covered include setting margins, inserting section breaks, generating a table of contents, and managing pagination.

Research and Citations

Professor Sara Manus, Director of the Marta and Austin Weeks Music Library, is available for research and citation consultations. You can contact her at sjm373@miami.edu or Book an Appointment.

Formatting Support

If you need assistance with Microsoft Word formatting, complete the Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Formatting Assistance Form. Members of the ETD Formatting Support Team can help with issues like pagination, layout inconsistencies, table of contents formatting errors, and the setup and use of headings.

Pre-Defense Formatting Review

The Graduate School offers a formatting review from the Senior Editor for ETDs. E-mail the draft to grad.dissertation@miami.edu when you send the document to your committee for review prior to your defense.

Key Databases

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature is a comprehensive, global bibliography of writings about music. RILM Abstracts currently indexes and abstracts scholarly music publications from 184 different countries, featuring content in 140 languages. RILM supports interdisciplinary scholarship by tracking music focused writings in anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art history, dance studies, dramatic arts, librarianship, literature, pedagogy, philosophy, physics, psychology, sociology, and therapy. Coverage dates from the early 20th century to the present, and includes journal articles, book chapters, books, reviews, editorials, obituaries, advertising, and news.

Music Periodicals Database

The Music Periodicals Database indexes journal literature in all areas of music. It provides indexing and abstracts for more than 425 international music periodicals, plus full text for around 140 journals. Coverage includes recording and performance reviews of both popular and classical music.

PubMed - US National Library of Medicine, NIH
Provides access to citations for biomedical articles from Medline and life science journals. Citations may include links to full-text articles.

PsycINFO

Abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, in behavioral science and mental health. Citations and summaries date back to early 1800s; journal coverage from 1887 to present. From the American Psychological Association.

Chicago Manual of Style Online

Completely searchable and easy to use, The Chicago Manual of Style Online provides recommendations on editorial style and publishing practices for the digital age. This is the source to use when you have questions about how to format footnotes and bibliographies.