What if you want to cite a doctoral
dissertation or a master thesis which is
at a library somewhere? This is very
common. You can do this. Now, of course
probably your professor will not
encourage you to do this. You won't want
to do this much, but it is something you
could do. So how would you cite that? Well,
it's not that different. Here we have the
author, the last name and then the first
name, the middle name. We have the year of
the dissertation. We have the title the
dissertation here, and then we go ahead
and we use parentheses and say doctoral
dissertations or master thesis. And then
we have a period because that's
basically the end, but then we adds a bit
of the URL, saying where we get it from,
the name of the database. So usually
these will not have a URL, will they?
Because usually the thesis is inside or
dissertation is inside of a library, and
you cannot access it, unless you're a
member of the library or a member of
another library that has access to that
library. But in any case, you can list the
name of the database, or the library, and
the number. Usually, they will have a
number to access inside the library.
Here's another example of an unpublished
dissertation or thesis. So we have the
author and then the first name, middle
name, the date. Here is the title of the
dissertation or thesis, and here we
actually say unpublished doctoral
dissertation or master thesis. And then
we have the name of the school and the
location. So a little bit different, but
basically the same. And here's another
example. Let me clear this. So we can see
it clearly. There we go. So we have the
last name, first name, middle name, and
here is the name of the dissertation. And
then we go ahead and write our thesis, and here we
say master thesis, and this I got on
ProQuest dissertations database. It's
actually called ProQuest dissertations
and theses database, and here is the
access number for that.                          That database has its own numbering
system, so very helpful. This another
example:
Adams, R. J. (1973). Building a foundation
for evaluation of instructions in higher
education and continuing education. " This
is a doctoral dissertation, and it is
retrieved from this link here. That's a
little bit unusual that would be on an
open internet link, and it's not inside
of a regular database. So that's kind of
the difference between published and
unpublished. It's that sometimes it's just
sitting in a library or just online
somewhere, but at other times it's inside
a formal database, meaning it's
published. That doesn't mean it's
published like published in a journal,
but it's inside a database published
from a library that's submitted it up.
Usually, if you're at a regular school,
that would happen, and it would be then
accessible to other researchers, which is
a really great thing. Here we have
another example, and we have the last
name, first name, then we have the year,
and then we have the name of the
doctoral thesis, and then here we say
Doctoral thesis, and here we have the
schools from Royal Institute of
Technology, Stockholm Sweden, and here is
where it was retrieved from. So the URL,
and then inside the URL is an actual
number, which is for the database to look
up that specific thesis.
