Thesis Title: Thesis Subtitle (Title: Subtitle)
Or,
Paper title:
Subtitle of the paper (if the subtitle is too long)
Title:
subtitle
For example,
1. Jesus' attitude towards women:
A lesson of contemporary "male-dominated" society
If you have any questions about the format of the paper, please refer to this website: Purdue OWL.
Here are very detailed information about English academic papers, article formats, including how to quote correctly and so on. The most widely used formats are MLA and APA.
On the question of dashes, dashes usually connect two or three words in English to form a phrase, such as "dog bites dog". Take an article as an example. Christine Gorman published an article in Scientific American on April 20th, 20th17th, entitled "Bill Gates is keen on the process of fighting diseases". We can know that the dash here plays a connecting role, and the words disease and fighting.