Honors Project Guidelines

Deadline and Submission of Manuscript and PDF File

The Smith College Libraries are responsible for the cataloguing, housing, and maintenance of an official record copy of all Smith College departmental honors projects. As of April 2009, the Libraries will accept copies of honors projects in electronic format only.

Each candidate is responsible for submitting the following:

• By Friday, January 13, 2012 for J-TERM graduates or Friday, April 6, 2012 for all others an Honors Project title page in .pdf format to the Honors Project 2011 moodle site. (See below for title page format.)
• By Friday, January 13, 2012 for J-TERM graduates or Friday, April 6, 2012 for all others a signed Permission Form for Honors Project submitted to Mary Lou Bouley, Collection Services, Neilson Library.
• By Friday, January 13, 2012 for J-TERM graduates or Monday, May 14, 2012 for all others the final copy of Honors Project in .pdf format (title page, body of work, bibliography, and .jpg files if appropriate) at the Honors Project 2011 Moodle site.

The Smith College Libraries, as holders of the official record copy of the honors project, will permit access to it. For those held in print format the Libraries may circulate the original through Interlibrary Loan, but no copies beyond ones for replacement or preservation will be made without permission of the author. For honors projects held in digital form, online access to the full text is restricted to current Smith students, faculty, and staff with Smith Network accounts and to researchers who visit the Smith College Libraries. All honors project writers are asked to complete a permission form, which authorizes the Smith College Libraries to make a copy of the digital honors project if requested through Interlibrary Loan.

Manuscript Preparation: Format

Style Manuals: Before beginning manuscript preparation, each student should consult with his or her adviser concerning the proper style to be used. Some departments may wish to use the style sheets issued by the principal journal or society of the discipline, although the latest edition of the following guides will answer most questions:

American Psychological Association. Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.

Modern Language Association of America. MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing.

Turabian, Kate. Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations.

University of Chicago. Chicago Manual of Style.

These guides are available at the reference desk in the Neilson Library. Also see the Libraries' online Citation Guides & Style Manuals page.

Page Format: Margins must be at least 1 inch on the left, right, top and bottom. Font should be Times New Roman 12 point. All text should be double-spaced except for Table of Contents, List of Tables, List of Figures, lengthy tables, quotations, and footnotes. All equations and formulas should be computer generated rather than handwritten.

Title Page: The title page of all departmental honors projects should follow the sample provided at the end of this document.

Sample Title Page