If you don’t know about dissertation/thesis format then this article should be helpful for you. Dissertation/thesis format is a format or style according to which certain elements of dissertation are written. To these elements, we can include signs of punctuation, citations, references, footnotes etc. All threes elements can be written according to several styles or formats.
You can ask your teacher about dissertation/thesis format of your own paper, because this question is very important. If your teacher does not know peculiarities of the style of your dissertation, you should look for information by yourself. First of all, you should visit library and ask necessary literature about this question. It is for sure that you will find enough literature. Almost every dissertation/thesis format or style has a book dedicated to its peculiarities. If your library doesn’t have such books or those books which you have, are not very helpful for you, you can always use the Internet for the search. Today there are many custom writing services in form of websites where you can find information about these formats. At these websites there are many articles dedicated to writing dissertation paper in definite format or style. In order to know the style of your dissertation, you should know to which sphere your dissertation belongs – to Humanities or to Sciences. In first variant, you may choose among MLA style, Turabian style, Chicago style, Harvard referencing. In second case, you have Vancouver style and APA style. All these styles have both similarities and differences. It is not easy to remember all their peculiarities, that’s why it is recommended to have something like a guideline of dissertation/thesis formats or styles.