Dance Research, History & Criticism (2024)

• Thesis requirements & guidelines from MFA Dance (will be reposted when Dance has updated)

Images are included in the List of Illustrations (see the MFA Dance "Thesis Requirements & Guidelines" pg. 5). Within your documents, each image should also have a caption. Images do not need to be included in your bibliography.

All images reproduced in your thesis should be captioned. Below are suggestions for captions; these can be adapted based on the type of image; what is known about the image; what is important for the reader to know.

For example: if you know the medium (= material of which a work of art is made, for example "photograph" or "oil on canvas") then you include it; if you do not know it, leave medium out. For an original artwork the exact dimensions would be important; but if you're getting an image from a book, or a web page, and you cannot know for certain what size the original is - leave size information out.

General Template for Artworks

Fig. #, Artist's First-name Last-name, Title of Work, Date of Creation, Medium, Size, Location or Owner of Work, URL.

Examples: 

Personal photograph reproduced in a paper/thesis:

Fig. 7. Maryke Barber, Final Rehearsal, June 5, 2021, Photograph. 

Image downloaded from Flickr Commons used in a paper/thesis:

Fig. 4. Thomas Eakins, Portrait of William Rudolf O'Donovan, 1891, Black and white photographic print, 6 x 8 cm., Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC., from: Flickr Commons, http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/2547841439 

Images downloaded from museum websites used in a paper/thesis:

Fig. 3. Caravaggio, The Denial of Saint Peter, Early 15th century, Oil on canvas, 94 x 125.4 cm., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, http://www.metmuseum.org

Fig. 1, Anonymous, Soul catcher, 1800-1850, Bone and haliotis shell (abalone), McChord Museum, Quebec, https://collections.musee-mccord-stewart.ca/en/objects/details/97143

Image from a book used in a paper/thesis:

Fig. 5. Sally Mann, My Children, September 14, 1992, Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Roanoke, in Images of Children, New York: Abrahams Publishing, 1994.

More examples:

https://cmosshoptalk.com/2019/02/12/how-do-i-format-a-figure-and-caption-in-turabian-chicago-style/
http://libguides.bates.edu/c.php?g=458997&p=3137819

Dance MFA Thesis Formatting guidelines requires two types of page numbers in the thesis:

• Front pages: title page, blank page, dedication, acknowledgements, table of contents, etc. These must be numbered with lower-case roman numbers: i,ii,iii,iv, etc. The title page does not display a page number. However, it is included as "i" in the page number count. 
• Actual thesis text, starting with your introduction: this must be numbered with arabic numbers: 1,2,3,4, etc. The arabic numbers continue to the end, and include the bibliography.

Roman Numbers

Count the title page  as Roman number i, but remove the page number so it does not display. The first visible page number will be Roman number ii, on the reverse and otherwise blank page.

Instructions: Starting page numbers later (Word documents).

Arabic Numbers

To make the change from Roman to Arabic numbers, you will first need to insert a section break in your document. 

Instructions: Add different page number formats to different sections (Word documents)