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Ph.D. Thesis Formatting Guidelines

Official layout specifications, binding margins, and document formatting requirements.

Governing Body: Dean (Academic Affairs) (Odisha, IN)

Degree Scope:🎓 Ph.D. / Doctoralℹī¸ Master's / M.Tech. format requires departmental / DPGC confirmation unless a central handbook is cited
Official Handbook:
Regulations Relating to Ph.D. Programme (updated till August 2025)
View Official Handbook ↗
Paper Dimensions
A4 (210 mm × 297 mm)*
Binding Margins
38 mm Left / 25 mm Right*
Standard Typography
Times New Roman (12pt)*
Line Spacing
1.5x*

1. Page Setup & Geometry

Page dimensions, binding margins, and print/digital alignments

A4*
Top: 25 mm*
Binding: 38 mm*
[Header]Page 1
[Front matter*]
Right: 25 mm*
Bottom: 25 mm*
Left (Binding Gutter)
38mm*
Right Margin
25mm*
Top Margin
25mm*
Bottom Margin
25mm*

2. Typography & Spacing Hierarchy

Font selections, heading styles, line spacing, and paragraph indentation

Times New Roman*
Body Font
Times New Roman*
Font Size
12pt*
Line Spacing
1.5x*
Paragraph Indent
12.7 mm*

3. Technical & Archival Compliance

ETD ProQuest repository requirements, table spanning, and vector DPI rules

Institute ETD / library deposit
Tables Layout

Table captions: above*.

Figures & Graphics

Figure captions: below*.

4. Preliminary Pages Checklist & Order

Strict graduate school ordering, title page numbering suppression, and Roman pagination

Mandatory Sequence
  1. 1
    Preface/IntroductionMandatory
    Pagination: unspecified
  2. 2
    Bio-data of the candidateMandatory
    Pagination: unspecified
    Requirement: Within one page.
  3. 3
    AbstractMandatory
    Pagination: unspecified
    Requirement: About 500 words with key words (about 20).
  4. 4
    Supervisor certificateMandatory
    Pagination: unspecified
    Requirement: Certified thesis submission; accompanied by mandatory student declaration disclosing any Generative AI tool assistance.

6. Academic Integrity, Similarity & AI Policy

Plagiarism threshold, similarity checking software, and Generative AI disclosure rules

Policy & Disclosure
Generative AI Policy
Disclosure Statement Required

Mandatory student declaration regarding Generative AI tools usage in preliminary pages per UGC guidelines and Institute Senate academic integrity circulars. Uncredited AI text generation is subject to plagiarism penalties.

8. Institutional & Departmental Policies

Abstract Limit:

Abstract of the thesis (about 500 words) with key words (about 20).

Institutional Policy: Official LaTeX template is acknowledged but not mined for margins — August 2025 regulations still do not publish millimetre geometry.
Institutional Policy: Currency check 2026-09-19: August 2025 is the latest Ph.D. regulation listed on iitbbs.ac.in academics/regulations. The 111120 PDF is superseded.
Geometry not in the cited source

The cited official source does not state paper size, margins, font, or line spacing. ScholarSpec will not invent another IIT's layout.

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* Provisional ScholarSpec layout used where the cited handbook does not specify this value. Confirm with your thesis office before submission.

  • Currency check 2026-09-19: the November 2020 / 111120 PDF is superseded by the Senate-updated August 2025 regulation listed on the official regulations page. Geometry, font, and spacing remain unpublished in the regulation (still partial).
  • Official LaTeX template is acknowledged but not mined for margins — regulations do not publish millimetre geometry.
  • October 2026 circular audit: verified against current academic circulars; updated header/footer margin parameters where centrally prescribed; added mandatory Generative AI disclosure policy in preliminary pages per UGC and Senate academic integrity regulations.
  • Verified 2026-10-13 against primary sources: confirmed active August 2025 PhD Regulations on iitbbs.ac.in specifying 500-word abstract while layout dimensions remain partial (null geometry); GenAI declaration policy enforced.