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Unpublished Dissertations: How Should Such Papers Be Cited?
People want to acquire knowledge; for this purpose they are ready to hit the books and to cram for exams. The course study consists of research papers, essays, and dissertations. All these papers should be written in accordance with writing rules and specific requirements provided by an educational institution.
You can find unpublished dissertations in the internet databases. It means that the paper under discussion have not been published yet.
Referencing
Unpublished dissertations can be digitized in order to present the basic results of the research. Anyway, you cannot use them without proper referencing. Consequently, it is necessary to mention ways unpublished dissertations should be cited and referenced. The first aspect which should be discussed is a specific formatting and citation style.
- If you take into consideration MLA citation style of your paper, you should write a bibliography page accordingly.
Make sure that the paper you are going to reference is an unpublished dissertation. It means that you can use it and reference accordingly. State the last name and the first name of the author of the unpublished dissertation. Then you should present the title of the unpublished dissertations in quotation marks. After that information about the purpose of the unpublished dissertation (MA thesis or doctoral dissertation accordingly) can be presented. The next step of referencing unpublished dissertations is to state the educational institution that granted the degree; the last mentioned data is the year that the degree was granted.
- If you take into consideration APA citation style of your paper, you should include proper referencing.
This means that your work is written in APA format; consequently, the reference list should be written in this format as well. You should make reference for the unpublished dissertation accordingly.
