Thesis By Publication: Obtaining Signatures

We strongly advise you to arrange for the Part B declaration form to be signed by contributing authors as soon as the paper is prepared or submitted for publication. This is preferable to trying to collect signatures as you prepare your thesis for submission. You and any co-authors who are students at Monash University also need to agree on your relataive contributions in percentage terms.

Difficulties obtaining Signatures

There may be occasions where a contributing author is unable to sign, such as:

• The author is deceased
• The author cannot be contacted after sustained attempts to do so.

In these cases the Head of Department can sign in the author's place, but s/he must briefly annotate the signature box explaining why the original author signature is not available.