2010_毕业论文撰写要求(2)

All pages of the thesis or dissertation (including appendices) must be numbered in the lower right corner, beginning with the first page of the first chapter. Small Roman numerals (i, ii, iii, iv, etc.) are used for Prefatory Matter (title page, Abstract, Acknowledgements, Table of Contents, List of Tables, List of Figures, etc.). The title page s number is omitted, so “ii” should appear on the following page.

2.5 Citation

Citations refer to the surname of an author, the year of publication, and page references in parentheses if specific words, or arguments are drawn from an author. Such information can help readers to locate the source of information in the reference list at the end of a thesis. When you cite one work by a single author, you need to put in parentheses the surname and the year of publication with a comma in between (See Citation 1). If the surname of an author has already appeared in the text, you just put the year of publication in parentheses immediately after the surname (See Citation 2).

Citation 1

It has been argued that teachers role is to provide the students with optimal conditions which can facilitate learning so that students can achieve similar successful results (Bloom, 1976).

Citation 2

Gagne (1977) also noticed that adult learners were less affected by external instruction events.

If the cited work has two authors, you always cite both (See Citation 3). However, when more authors but fewer than six authors are involved, you are only required to cite all the authors the first time the reference appears in text (See Citation 4). In subsequent citations, you simply cite the surname of the first author followed by “et al”(See Citation 5).

Citation 3

The disadvantage of the multiple regression analysis is that it cannot show the complex interrelations between independent variables (Bryman & Cramer, 1990)

Citation 4

Studies of the good language learner (e.g., Naiman, Frohlich, Stern, & Todesco, 1978) have tried to identify the strategies which successful learners use.

Citation 5

Naiman et al. (1978) found a similar relationship, although in this case effort on the part of the learners was also associated with also associated with instrumental motivation.

When a work has six or more authors, you only need to cite the surname of the first author followed by “et al.” for the first and subsequent citations. If one work was written by two or