Give the last name of the author followed the first initial and the middle initial if it is available. For example, "Jones, S. P."
Place the date the dissertation was published or finished inside parentheses. For example, "(2005)."
Type the title of the dissertation in italics. Capitalize only the first word of the title and any word after a colon. Identify the work as a dissertation and note whether it is unpublished in parentheses; for example, "Title example (Doctoral dissertation)." or "Example title (Unpublished doctoral dissertation)."
Give the name of the database and the identification number for the dissertation if you retrieved it from a commercial database. For example, "Available from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. (Order No. 123456)"
Give the URL for an institutional database or a dissertation hosted elsewhere on the Web. For example, "Retrieved from http://www.mit.edu/database"
Give the name and location of the university at which the dissertation was completed for an unpublished dissertation. For example, "Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA."