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Ph.D. Thesis Formatting Guidelines

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

Governing Body: Dean of Academic Affairs (Uttar Pradesh, IN)

Degree Scope:🎓 Ph.D. / Doctoralℹī¸ Master's / M.Tech. format requires departmental / DPGC confirmation unless a central handbook is cited
Official Handbook:
Ordinances Governing Postgraduate Programmes — thesis examination process
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*.

6. Academic Integrity, Similarity & AI Policy

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

Policy & Disclosure
Generative AI Policy
Disclosure Statement Required

In accordance with UGC (Promotion of Academic Integrity) regulations and Institute Senate resolutions, students must disclose all generative AI assistance.

8. Institutional & Departmental Policies

Institutional Policy: Library holds hard copies and CDs of Ph.D. theses; that is archival practice, not a format handbook.
Institutional Policy: Currency check 2026-09-19: still partial. PG ordinances §11 remain process (supervisors/boards/submission). No public millimetre thesis-format PDF found on iitbhu.ac.in. Library thesis-section practice is archival, not a handbook.
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: still partial. PG ordinances §11 remain process (supervisors/boards/submission). No public millimetre thesis-format PDF found on iitbhu.ac.in. Library thesis-section practice is archival, not a handbook.
  • Library holds hard copies and CDs of Ph.D. theses; that is archival practice, not a format handbook.
  • Corrected 2026-10-13 against primary sources: updated decommissioned library subdomain prev.iitbhu.ac.in to active library portal https://www.iitbhu.ac.in/cf/lib; PhD ordinance verified on doaa/doc/ordinance_pg.pdf; geometry remains partial/null; GenAI declaration policy enforced.