In all the ambits, the table of contents lists the different sections of the paper together with the page numbers, which you can create automatically in
Word using the
Titles styles for your section titles. Use sentence-style capitalization for the section titles, meaning only capitalize the first word and all the proper nouns.
Here is the table of contents of a humanities paper called
Rauschenberg’s Bed
as an Examination of Portraiture.
Table of Contents1 Abstract | 3 |
2 Introduction | 4 |
3 Discussion | 7 |
| 12 |
3.2 Talisman in William C. Seitz’s The Art of Assemblage
| 22 |
3.3 “Writes well, cuts ragged, sleeps five”: the inanimate made animate
| 34 |
3.4 Redefining the self-portrait
| 45 |
4 Conclusion | 53 |
5 Works cited | 57 |
Digital appendix | |
Robert Rauschenberg by Louwrien Wijers for Art & Design Profile No. 21, Art meets Science and Spirituality, 1990 (interview, .mp4) | |
Finally, if you need to include an index of figures (information organized in charts, graphs, plots or drawings) and tables (information organized in columns and rows), put this on the page following the table of contents. Generally speaking, there is no need for you to include an index for any illustrations in the paper.
| Note that this is just an example of what a table of contents might look like in a publication in the humanities.
For the purposes of your Final Project, your faculty will tell you what format you need to follow. |