Your title, which must be in sentence case, contain no special characters, and be in inverted pyramid format if longer than one line—use Shift+Enter to force
a new line

By

TITLE PAGE

Your name here, as it appears in MSU’s records

A Document Type.

Submitted to the Faculty of

Mississippi State University

in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements

for the Degree of Choose an item.

in Your Major.

in the Department of …(or possibly College of…-see template instructions).

Mississippi State, Mississippi

Select Date of Graduation (see Academic Calendar).

Copyright by

COPYRIGHT PAGE

Your name here, as it appears in MSU’s records

Year of Graduation

Your title, which must be in sentence case, contain no special characters, and be in inverted pyramid format if longer than one line—use Shift+Enter to force
a new line

By

APPROVAL PAGE

Your name here, as it appears in MSU’s records

Approved:

Major Professor(s) are listed first

(Major Professor)

Minor Professor (if any) is listed next

(Minor Professor)

Committee Member's Name

(Committee Member)

Committee Member's Name

(Committee Member)

Committee Member's Name

(Committee Member)

Graduate Coordinator’s name, if not already serving on committee

(Graduate Coordinator)

Dean’s Name

Dean

College's Name

Name: Your name here, as it appears in MSU’s records

ABSTRACT

Date of Degree: Click here to enter a date.

Institution: Mississippi State University

Major Field: Your Major.

Select Appropriate Title: Add the name(s) of the person(s) heading your committee.

Title of Study:	Your title, which must be in sentence case, contain no special characters, and be in inverted pyramid format if longer than one line—use Shift+Enter to forcea new line

Pages in Study 9

Candidate for Degree of Choose an item.

This is where the body of the abstract goes. Theses are limited to 150 words. Dissertations are limited to 350 words. It is important that you do not delete the section break following this line. Do not use any special symbol/characters that are not found on a standard keyboard (super- and subscripts are allowed).

DEDICATION

As an optional page, the author may choose to add a Dedication page as a means to recognize individual people, groups, and/or organizations that supported/inspired the author. If a dedication is not used, but you are planning on having an “ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS”, simply change the word “DEDICTATION” to “ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and delete the following acknowledgements section. If neither a dedication or acknowledgements are desired, delete both sections and set the page number on the first page of the Table of Contents to start at "ii"

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

As an optional page, the author may choose to add an Acknowledgements page to recognize any special contributors that helped make the work possible. If an acknowledgements is used, it immediately follows the dedication (if applicable, otherwise after the abstract) and continues page numbering (or if there is not a Dedication, then the Acknowledgements is numbered with a lowercase Roman numeral “ii”). If an acknowledgements section is not desired, simply delete this section.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

DEDICATION	ii

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS	iii

LIST OF TABLES	vi

LIST OF FIGURES	vii

CHAPTER

REPLACE WITH CHAPTER TITLE, IN ALL CAPS. IF TITLE IS MORE THAN ONE LINE LONG, THEN IT MUST BE IN INVERTED PYRAMID FORMAT USE SHIFT+ENTER TO FORCE A LINE BREAK IF NEEDED	1

Example 1st level heading	1

Example 2nd level heading	1

Example 3rd level heading.	1

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REPLACE WITH CHAPTER TITLE, IN ALL CAPS. IF TITLE IS MORE THAN ONE LINE LONG, THEN IT MUST BE IN INVERTED PYRAMID FORMAT USE SHIFT+ENTER TO FORCE A LINE BREAK IF NEEDED	4

REFERENCES	5

APPENDIX

REPLACE WITH APPENDIX TITLE, IN ALL CAPS. IF TITLE IS MORE THAN ONE LINE LONG, THEN IT MUST BE IN INVERTED PYRAMID FORMAT USE SHIFT+ENTER TO FORCE A LINE BREAK IF NEEDED	6

Example 1st level heading	7

Example 2nd level heading	7

Example 3rd level heading.	7

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LIST OF TABLES

1	Create a short, concise table title and place all detailed caption, notes, reference, legend information, etc in the notes section below	2

A1	Create a short, concise table title and place all detailed caption, notes, reference, legend information, etc in the notes section below	7

LIST OF FIGURES

1	Create a short, concise figure title and place all detailed caption, notes, reference, legend information, etc in the notes section below	3

A1	Create a short, concise figure title and place all detailed caption, notes, reference, legend information, etc in the notes section below	8

REPLACE WITH CHAPTER TITLE, IN ALL CAPS. IF TITLE IS MORE THAN ONE LINE LONG, THEN IT MUST BE IN INVERTED PYRAMID FORMAT USE SHIFT+ENTER TO FORCE A LINE BREAK IF NEEDED

Below are sample texts to demonstrate the formatting of each style. Simply delete the examples (but not the section break at the end of chapter 1) and begin writing.

Example 1st level heading

Example Paragraph

Example 2nd level heading

Example Paragraph

Example 3rd level heading. Example Paragraph

Example 4th level heading. Example Paragraph

Example 5th level heading. Example Paragraph

To create a new table in the main body, type “Table” and press F3.

Create a short, concise table title and place all detailed caption, notes, reference, legend information, etc in the notes section below

Replace with your table

Place all detailed caption, notes, reference, legend information, etc here

To create a continued table in the main body, type “Table continued” and press F3

Table 1 (continued)

Replace with your table

Place all detailed caption, notes, reference, legend information, etc here

To create a new equation in the main body, type “Equation number” and press F3

Replace this with your equation	(1)

Example Paragraph

Replace this with your equation	(2)

Example Split paragraph continued

Example Block quote

Example Numbered List

Example Bullet List

To create a new figure in the main body, type “Figure” and press F3

Create a short, concise figure title and place all detailed caption, notes, reference, legend information, etc in the notes section below

Place all detailed caption, notes, reference, legend information, etc here

To create a continued figure in the main body, type “Figure continued” and press F3

Figure 1 (continued)

Place all detailed caption, notes, reference, legend information, etc here

REPLACE WITH CHAPTER TITLE, IN ALL CAPS. IF TITLE IS MORE THAN ONE LINE LONG, THEN IT MUST BE IN INVERTED PYRAMID FORMAT USE SHIFT+ENTER TO FORCE A LINE BREAK IF NEEDED

To create a landscaped section, type “Landscape page” and press F3

To create a new chapter type “New chapter” and press F3

REFERENCES

Example Reference Entry

REPLACE WITH APPENDIX TITLE, IN ALL CAPS. IF TITLE IS MORE THAN ONE LINE LONG, THEN IT MUST BE IN INVERTED PYRAMID FORMAT
USE SHIFT+ENTER TO FORCE A LINE BREAK IF NEEDED

Content page for appendix

Example 1st level heading

Example Paragraph

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Example Paragraph

Example 3rd level heading. Example Paragraph

Example 4th level heading. Example Paragraph

Example 5th level heading. Example Paragraph

Example Paragraph

To create a new table in the Appendix, type “Table appendix” and press F3.

Create a short, concise table title and place all detailed caption, notes, reference, legend information, etc in the notes section below

Place all detailed caption, notes, reference, legend information, etc here

To create a continued table in the Appendix, type “Table appendix continued” and press F3

Table A1 (continued)

Place all detailed caption, notes, reference, legend information, etc here

To create a new figure in the Appendix, type “Figure appendix” and press F3

Create a short, concise figure title and place all detailed caption, notes, reference, legend information, etc in the notes section below

Place all detailed caption, notes, reference, legend information, etc here

To create a continued figure in the Appendix, type “Figure appendix continued” and press F3

Figure A1 (continued)

Place all detailed caption, notes, reference, legend information, etc here

To create a new equation in the Appendix, type “Equation appendix number” and press F3

Replace this with your equation	(A.1)

To create a new Appendix, type “New appendix” and press F3