Question: How do I format my page numbers for a WVU Electronic Thesis or Dissertation.

There are three important things to know about page number for WVU ETDs. 

1. Page numbers on the Title Page and Abstract are suppressed, but they still count as the first two or more pages of your ETD. 

2. The rest of the preliminary pages (front matter like the Table of Contents and Acknowledgments) must be numbered in lower case Roman numerals (i, ii, iii, iv, v...). 

3. The body of your document (Chapter 1 or Introduction, for example, through end of document) must restart the page numbering at "1" and be numbered as Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3, 4...). 

For help with formatting, we have instructions for formatting your page numbers with Microsoft Word, and Google Docs.

Those instructions and more can be found in the prepare section of the WVU ETD website 

For additional assistance, contact:

 ETDreview@mail.wvu.edu.