Section-Specific
List of Tables
Link: List of Tables
About
The List of Tables is similar to a Table of Contents, in that it identifies all of the tables in the manuscript, along with their respective page numbers. If your thesis/dissertation contains one or more tables, a List of Tables is required.
Setting Up Tabs
- Create the "List of Tables" heading (2" from the top of the page, styled as a 1st level heading).
- Set page spacing to single-spaced.
- Click on the bottom right of the Paragraph tab to open the Paragraph Settings window.
- Click on the Tabs button at the bottom left of the window.
- Set the first tab to 0.75" (Align LEFT; Leader NONE).
- Set a final indent to 6.5" (Align RIGHT; Leader DOTTED - if you want to have a dotted leader line).
- Click Save on the Tabs window and then close the Paragraph settings window.
- Click and move the right indent to 6.0" so that any long headers will wrap to the next line.
Format
General Formatting
- Line Spacing: Single-spaced (with a single-spaced line added before all new table listings)
- Page Number: Lowercase Roman numeral (continued from Table of Contents)
Section Heading Formatting
- All 1st-order headings must be 2" from the top edge of the page and must be styled consistently.
Content Formatting
- All table captions (titles) must match verbatim (word-for-word) to those used in the body of manuscript. (Include only the first sentence of each table caption.)
- All tables are numbered consecutively using a consistent style.
- Titles should break 0.5" before the right margin to prevent overcrowding of page numbers.
- The "Table #" should be against the left margin while the name/title/caption of the table should be indented either 0.75" or 1". All lines of the caption must be indented the same. See the above example for help.
- All page numbers associated with table titles must correspond to the correct location in the body of the manuscript.
- All page numbers must be right-aligned with the 1" right margin.
- Tables from the Appendices section are listed using Arabic numbers that are different from those in the body. (i.e.: Table 1A, Table 2A, or Table A1, Table A2, etc.)