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ABVMU: thesis format, and what only your department can tell you
ABVMU publishes a thesis guidebook with real, specific format rules — paper weight, margins, a maroon cover with gold embossing. Its worked template is a nursing one, so this page gives you the rules and the scope question in the same breath.
- Body
- State health university
- State or UT
- Uttar Pradesh
- What this page has
- Format · scope unconfirmed · 5 sourced rows
The record
The record
Read, and its scope stated with it
What the document says, and what it does not settle
The figures below were read in a document this body published. That document's own scope or date is unsettled, and the row saying so carries the same weight as the rows with the figures in them.
ABVMU publishes a document titled Guidebook for Submission of Thesis whose opening instructions are written generally, to candidates, rather than to one course. They require one side only of plain white unlined bond paper of at least 85 gsm in A4, erasable paper excluded; Arial at 12 point for the text with titles at 14 bold and subtitles at 12 bold; letter-quality or laser printing, not dot matrix, with the same print size throughout; and the side of the thesis to carry the name, the degree and the year.
The same instructions set double spacing except for long quotations, footnotes and endnotes, which are single-spaced, with triple spacing around scientific equations; a left margin of 1.5 inches for binding and 1 inch on the other three, with an oversized figure folded so that the 1.5 inch left margin stays free; Roman numerals on the preliminary pages and Arabic numerals on the text pages, centred and consistent, with every page numbered including plates, tables, diagrams and maps.
Two details from the same document that a binder will ask you for: the outer cover is dark maroon with embossed golden text, and one hard copy plus one soft copy as a PDF on a CD are submitted, with the CD attached inside the back cover and labelled with the title, subtitle, candidate, degree, guide, department, college, place and year.
Read the scope limit before you use any of it. The worked title page and declaration inside that same guidebook are set for the Master of Science in Nursing degree, and the file is published under a nursing and post-basic filename. So the general format instructions may well extend to a medical postgraduate thesis and may not. Put the question to your department in those words — does the university's thesis guidebook apply to my MD or MS thesis, or is there a separate one — and do not assume from this page that it does.
Source: ABVMU Guidebook, title page and declaration templates
And here is the reason that scope question is not pedantry. Baba Farid University of Health Sciences in Punjab publishes its own thesis guidebook, linked below, and its paragraphs on paper, type, spacing, margins and photographs are the same sentences as the ones in this one. Two universities a thousand miles apart are not independently arriving at the same sentences; both are adaptations of a shared original. That tells you the instructions are a house style inherited rather than a rule drafted for your degree at your university — and the two documents already disagree on a detail, because ABVMU centres the page number and BFUHS puts it at the bottom right. Which is why your department's copy, and not a guidebook, is the thing that governs you.
Source: compare: BFUHS Guidebook for Submission of Theses/Dissertations
What we read, and when
Read on 10 September 2026 and compared line by line with the BFUHS guidebook on 11 September 2026: the ABVMU Guidebook for Submission of Thesis, published on abvmuup.edu.in. Its general format instructions are restated here in our own words; its worked templates are for the M.Sc. Nursing degree and we say so.
A figure that is not on this page is not a figure we are withholding. It is one we could not read in a published document, and printing it anyway would cost you a reprint at best. How this register is built.
The floor
The floor
Regardless of the template
What applies whatever your format says
Four instruments decide the substance of a postgraduate thesis in India. A local format decides how it is typed.
Whatever your university's template says, the Post Graduate Medical Education Regulations, 2023[1] sit under it. In force from 1 January 2024, they keep the thesis compulsory for every broad and super-specialty postgraduate, have it assessed within the practical and viva examination, and have it judged by an external examiner from outside the state. They also require one research activity, a research methodology course and GCP training before the final examination. A university format can be stricter than that. It cannot release you from it.
One limit on that, if your degree is an MDS. Those regulations are the National Medical Commission's and they govern postgraduate medical education. Dental postgraduate education has its own regulator and its own instrument, and we do not state here what that instrument requires, because we have not read it for you. Ask your department which regulation your dissertation is assessed under, by name — the answer should not be the NMC's.
Ethics comes before everything, including the format. Institutional Ethics Committee approval must precede any data collection under the national ethical guidelines[5], informed consent is mandatory, and a prospective interventional study is registered with the Clinical Trials Registry of India. No amount of reformatting repairs a dataset collected before approval was granted, which is why this is the first date to fix and never the last.
On similarity, most health universities apply the convention established by the 2018 academic integrity regulations[3]: below 10% treated as acceptable, with graded penalties above it. Which tool produces the report, and what is excluded from the count, is set by your institution rather than nationally. We work to whatever threshold your institution publishes, and to the under 10% convention where it publishes none.
And authorship does not vary at all. You satisfy the ICMJE criteria[4] and we do not. Mentoring, editing, statistics and compliance review belong in your acknowledgements; our name appears nowhere in your author line. That holds at every body in this register.
The checklist
The checklist
Ask, do not assume
What to confirm with your own department
Take this list to your guide or the postgraduate section and come away with written answers. Every item on it changes the document you produce.
Confirm before you write the methods chapter
13 items
Whether the university's Guidebook for Submission of Thesis applies to your MD, MS or MDS thesis, or whether a separate document governs medical postgraduates.
If it does apply, the title page wording for your degree rather than the nursing wording printed in the guidebook's template.
The deadline for submitting the synopsis or protocol, counted from your date of joining, and whether a late window exists and what it costs.
The deadline for submitting the dissertation itself, and whether it is fixed to a calendar date or to a number of months before your examination.
Page or word limits, and whether references, tables, the master chart and annexures count towards them.
Paper size, font, font size, line spacing and the four margins, including the wider margin left for binding.
Binding type and cover colour, and the exact wording and layout the title page must carry.
How many hard copies go to the department, how many to the university, and whether a soft copy is required and in which file format.
Which certificates must be bound in: the candidate's declaration, the guide's and co-guide's certificates, the head of department's and head of institution's endorsements, the ethics committee approval and the similarity report.
Which similarity-checking tool your institution runs, which percentage it treats as acceptable, and what is excluded from the count.
The referencing style, and whether the university names one style or accepts any consistent international style.
Whether your dissertation is submitted to the university directly or through your college, and who signs it on the way.
Whether the university runs its own protocol review in addition to your institutional ethics committee, and how long that review takes.
Ask for these by name
The Guidebook for Submission of Thesis, and a statement of which courses it covers.
If it does not cover yours, the document that does, by name.
The approved title page for your degree and your year of submission.
Why written answers
A format passed on verbally between batches drifts. The margin survives and the page cap does not, or a certificate that was added last year never reaches you. Ask for the document, note its number and its date, and keep it. If your department cannot produce one, that is itself the answer, and the thing to do is get the current circular from the university rather than copy a senior's thesis.
Our part
Our part
How MDThesis works with this
We format to the document you bring
Your department signs your submission, so your department's copy of the format is the one we build to.
On the first call we ask for two things: the current format document for ABVMU, and a title page your own department has already approved. The draft is set to those from the first chapter rather than reformatted at the end, which is when a page cap becomes expensive. Where the two disagree, your department's copy wins. Where your university is stricter than any convention, the stricter rule is the one we follow.
The checklist above is not homework we have set you. Your mentor goes through it with you and the answers become dated rows on your record, with the deadlines counted from the dates your own body uses. An MDSoftune word-level uniqueness report ships with every draft version, so similarity is visible while a chapter is still in draft rather than at submission. We do not operate the checker your institution runs and cannot predict the figure it will produce.
What we do not do: write your thesis, promise a grade or an approval, or put our name anywhere in it. You are the author. How the work is actually divided.
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