The title page should be a single separate page. All the contents on this page (except for the first two lines) should be centered horizontally. 

On the title page, please put the year and the month (usually June) in which you complete all the requirements needed for the awarding of your master’s degree. This is not necessarily the month in which you submit your final thesis draft.

Acceptance pages confirm the committee’s approval and acceptance of your master’s thesis. Students should separate the Chinese and English acceptance pages. 

If you are submitting an electronic copy, the acceptance page should not include any signatures (leave the names blank). Signatures are only present on the paper copy submitted to the Master of China Studies Office.

The copyright page should be a single separate page in Chinese..

Please include a table of contents to guide the readers through your thesis. Label “Contents” at the top of the first page. Leave two blank lines between the title and the first item listed. The table of contents does not list pages that precede it, or the table of contents itself, but should begin with the title of the page that follow it. Give page numbers only for the first page of each section (i.e. not the full span of each section’s length), and use lowercase Roman or Arabic numerals as on the page themselves. Dot leaders or dotted lines between the elements and the page numbers are optional. 

Depending on your personal inclination, you might wish to include a set of acknowledgments to recognize people or agencies to whom you feel grateful towards for any academic, technical, financial or personal assistance during your thesis writing process. The acknowledgments page preferably consists of just one page. Put “Acknowledgments” as the title at the top of that page. Leave two blank lines between the title and the text.

Please list all the illustrations, tables and figures used in the thesis. If your thesis includes only figures, put “Figures” as the title at the top of the page; if it includes only tables, label it “Tables” instead. If your thesis includes both figures and tables, you may provide a separate list for each, or combine them into a single list titled “Illustrations”.

As you put “Illustrations”, “Tables”, and/or “Figures” at the top of their respective pages, leave two blank lines between the title and the first line of text. Write down the number of each figure or table in Arabic numerals. You must vertically align the list based on the order of appearance of each table and figure in your thesis. Figure captions and table titles should match the wording and capitalization of those written in the main body of the thesis. List the page numbers aligned on the right. Dot leaders or dotted lines to connect the captions and titles to page numbers is optional. 

You may use abbreviations for names, titles, and other terms frequently used in your paper. Give the full form when you first refer the names/titles/other terms in your thesis, followed by the abbreviation in parentheses. For subsequent references, use the abbreviation consistently. If you use a lot of abbreviations, you might add a list of abbreviations to the front matter of your thesis.

Label “Abbreviations” at the top of the page. Leave two blank lines between the title and the first item. Note that the items are arranged alphabetically according to the abbreviation, not by the spelled-out term. The abbreviations themselves are vertically aligned in the left; spell out terms (including runovers) are set on a consistent indent that allows about a half inches of space between the longest abbreviation in the first column and the first word in the second column. 

The Chinese and English abstracts should be separated into two pages, with no more than one page per abstract. In the Chinese abstract, “摘要” should be centered at the top of the page. “Abstract” should be centered at the top of the English version.

As many people will learn about your work through your title and abstract through Zhejiang University’s library database, you should spend a good bit of effort in composing both your title and abstract. Try to convey the main ideas of your work rather than just the framework of your findings. You should also work to phrase your title to make it truly describes the contents and ensure it to be easily found in the index of the university’s library database.

If your thesis includes essential supporting materials that cannot be easily worked into the body of your paper, put the materials in one or more appendixes at the end of the entire thesis. Label the first-page “Appendixes” at the top of the page. If you have more than one type of appendix material, please provide each appendix with a number or letter and a descriptive title. You may give the numbers in either Arabic numerals, fully written out, or single letters of the alphabet in sequential order.

Label the first page of the section with “Bibliography” at the top of the page. The MCS office adopts the Chicago Style 16th edition of referencing.

Use double-spacing for all text in your thesis, except the following items, which should be single-spaced: