Thesis / Dissertation Formatting Manual (2024)

The Acknowledgements page is a required page. The following information is also required, if applicable:

• You must acknowledge grants and other funding assistance (e.g. NSF grants, with grant number)
• If you have used copyrighted material of your own or others (e.g. if chapters of your thesis or dissertation were previously published elsewhere), you must include a statement to inform the reader that permission has been granted and state the source of the permission.
  • Include the citation of the previously published material (the originally published title and the name of the publication), permissions to reprint if required, and information about co-authors. 
    • Example: The text of this thesis/dissertation is a reprint of the material as it appears in (include bibliographic citation), used with permission from ____. The co-authors listed in this publication are ___ [you can include their roles, or at least spell out their names if using a citation style that abbreviates names].
  • See https://guides.lib.uci.edu/gradmanual/previously-published-overview for more information.  

The following information is optional:

• You may also acknowledge the contributions of professors and friends.

Below is an annotated example of an Acknowledgements page from the Template. It highlights a section that acknowledges previous publications and funding.