The title of a dissertation is entered in the title element in sentence case. For a published dissertation, within square brackets, enter the description, e.g., “Doctoral dissertation” or “Master’s thesis”, followed by a comma, and the name of the university. If the dissertation has not been published, place the words “Unpublished doctoral dissertation (or master’s thesis)” inside square brackets after the title and place the name of the university outside the brackets.

Robinson, T. N. (2016). Exploring an Integrative Graduate Education Research Traineeship (IGERT): Using organizational culture to understand how programs work [Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland]. https://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/18975 

Robinson, T. N. (2016). Exploring an Integrative Graduate Education Research Traineeship (IGERT): Using organizational culture to understand how programs work [Unpublished master’s thesis]. University of Maryland.