Word has many useful features that make it easier to write your bachelor thesis. Use automatic directories.

In Word tables of contents, index directories, table directories,, formula directories, abbreviation directories, und bibliographies can be created automatically. The use of these functions saves a lot of time, because you only need to update the respective directories with a mouse click. All contents of the directories (eg the table of contents) are created automatically. This will avoid mistakes that occur when, for example, you forget a chapter or sources in the bibliography, or you duplicate them.

Fonts and font sizes can be found in the guidelines of your university.

As a principle applies:
The font and font size must be used uniformly in the entire bachelor thesis (Exception: with footnotes usually a smaller font as well as usually a smaller line spacing are used.) For title and chapter headings a larger font size is chosen.

The most common fonts are Arial, Times New Roman, Calibri or Verdana. Always use only one font in your bachelor thesis. Check the font size for the title and the individual chapter headings, these elements are usually also highlighted in bold.

For chapter headings of the 1st and 2nd level, a larger typeface (16 or 14 points) is usually recommended than for the continuous text (12-11 points) and the footnotes (10 points).

On the title page the title should be centered, in the body text and in the footnotes you should always use a justified sentence and an automatic hyphenation.

The most commonly used is the line spacing of 1.5 points in the body text and 1.0 in the footnotes. It’s best to check your specifications.

Many are convinced that markings in the bachelor thesis allow a better orientation in the text. These should, however, be used sparingly in scientific work.

Bold and especially italics should be avoided.

In some disciplines, the italic z. For example, to mark terms, to identify foreign words, or to indicate titles of works. You should therefore check the guidelines at the beginning, so that you do not have to change or unify in the end, which is a very tedious task.

Most often, the pages are numbered at the bottom right (this results from the fact that you can find the corresponding page the fastest while browsing).

Some universities also allow the page number in the middle or top right. The first page has no page numbering, other pages should check the requirements of your university or university. Mostly Arabic numerals are used for the body text pages and Roman numerals for directory pages and attachment pages.

Also to the margins there are different requirements:

• 1.5-2.5 cm are recommended above and below
• wider left (because of binding)
• 3.5 cm and right 2.5 cm

Quotes are most often in quotation marks.

For longer quotes, which consist of more than 3 lines, they should eigerückt and start as a new paragraph. Also, the line spacing may be different for longer quotes, more precisely, these specifications are specified in your guide.
Less popular are quotations without quotation marks in italics.

If quotations are in italics, the italics may not be used for other purposes.

Without exception:
For citations, their source must always be stated in scientific texts. Do this from the beginning, otherwise most sources will not be reconstructed later and the text will be unusable.

When referring to sources, the principle applies first of all: make everything uniform.

The sources may be either in the text “American citations” or in the footnotes “German citations”.

The punctuation in the references as well as the individual necessary components (author, year of publication, title, edition, publisher, place of publication, etc.) are always given, there are many different possibilities in the design, so that you should do so from the beginning to Work to your specifications.