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Doctoral Thesis (Teknologie doktor / licentiat) Formatting Guidelines

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

Governing Body: KTH Library & Doctoral Programme Administration (Stockholm, SE)

Degree Scope:🎓 Ph.D. / Doctoralℹī¸ Master's / M.Tech. format requires departmental / DPGC confirmation unless a central handbook is cited
Official Handbook:
KTH Guidelines for Formatting and Publishing Doctoral Theses
View Official Handbook ↗
Paper Dimensions
A4 (210 mm × 297 mm)
Binding Margins
25 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: 25 mm*
[Header]Page 1
[Front matter*]
Right: 25 mm*
Bottom: 25 mm*
Left (Binding Gutter)
25mm*
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
0.5 in
Approved Typefaces:Times New RomanArialComputer Modern
Spacing Exceptions: Single spacing for quotations, tables, and references.

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. Colour photography minimum 300 DPI.

Math & Formulae

Right-aligned equation numbers (chapter.seq). Preserves native MathML and Word equation blocks.

Archival Preservation

Library ETD guideline: PDF/A-1b (Note: ScholarSpec formats submission-ready Word .docx documents; export to PDF/A upon final committee approval).

4. Preliminary Pages Checklist & Order

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

Mandatory Sequence
  1. 1
    Title PageMandatory
    Pagination: suppressed counted
  2. 2
    AbstractMandatory
    Pagination: roman visible
  3. 3
    Table of ContentsMandatory
    Pagination: roman visible

6. Academic Integrity, Similarity & AI Policy

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

Policy & Disclosure
Generative AI Policy
Disclosure Statement Required

KTH Research Ethics policy requires student declaration of any generative AI assistance in the thesis.

8. Institutional & Departmental Policies

Public Spikning:

Mandatory 3-week public electronic Spikning on DiVA prior to public defense.

Trita Series:

Official TRITA publication series number and ISBN/ISSN assignment.

Bilingual Abstract:

Bilingual abstract in English and Swedish (Sammanfattning).

Physical Copies:

30 printed copies required for the defense committee.

Institutional Policy: KTH research degree guidelines apply to Teknologie doktor and licentiat degrees.

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

  • Downgraded to partial 2026-10-13: the verification block cites a landing page without a page-level formatting source. Re-verify margins, typography, and pagination against the institution's thesis handbook before marking verified.
  • Corrected 2026-10-13 against primary sources: Brief's dead URL (.../student/studier/examen/avhandling) is gone. KTH states the template is recommended, not mandatory, and schools may add stricter rules; so numeric values come from the official 2025 Word template and are defaults, not binding requirements. Claimed 30/25/25/25 mm, TNR 11, 1.15 do not correspond to any official KTH source found (the existing claimed 'G5 169x239' final size is correct). The AI verdict 'match' is school-level (EECS/ITM/SCI); CBH and ABE not checked. intra.kth.se pages loaded without login (HTTP 200) at test time. Per-subject general study syllabi may add rules.