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GUIDELINES FOR STRUCTURING CONTENTS

• Sequence of Contents 
  The following sequence for the thesis organization can be followed: (i) Preliminaries  such as Title Page, Certificate at the end of the Thesis,  Abstract/Synopsis, Guide Acknowledgement,, Table of Contents List of Figures, Tables, Illustrations, Symbols, etc. (ii) Text of Thesis Introduction The body of the thesis, summary and conclusions (iii) Reference Material List of References, Bibliography (where included) (iv) Appendices where included (v) Index where included All the headings are centered (without punctuation) 25mm down the top edge of the page. The subsequent type-setting begins four spaces below the heading. 

• Preliminaries  such as Synopsis/Abstract, Table of contents  
  
• The Text of the Thesis  - Introduction  , The body of Thesis, Summary and conclusions , Reference material  ,  Appendix or Appendices. 
  
• Concluding Remarks.
  http://www.iitk.ac.in/doaa/thesisguide.pdf