Thesis Title - LaTeX Templates

1 UNIVERSITYNAMEDOCTORALTHESIST hesis TitleAuthor:John SMITHS upervisor:Dr. James SMITHA Thesis submitted in fulfillment of the requirementsfor the degree of Doctor of Philosophyin theResearch Group NameDepartment or School NameAugust 27, 2017iiiDeclaration of AuthorshipI, John SMITH, declare that this Thesis titled, Thesis Title and the work presentedin it are my own. I confirm that: This work was done wholly or mainly while in candidature for a research de-gree at this University. Where any part of this Thesis has previously been submitted for a degree orany other qualification at this University or any other institution, this has beenclearly stated. Where I have consulted the published work of others, this is always clearlyattributed. Where I have quoted from the work of others, the source is always given. Withthe exception of such quotations, this Thesis is entirely my own work. I have acknowledged all main sources of help. Where the Thesis is based on work done by myself jointly with others, I havemade clear exactly what was done by others and what I have contributed :Date:v Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually anytopic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism.

2 Dave BarryviiUNIVERSITY NAMEA bstractFaculty NameDepartment or School NameDoctor of PhilosophyThesis Titleby John SMITHThe Thesis Abstract is written here (and usually kept to just this page). The page iskept centered vertically so can expand into the blank space above the Title too..ixAcknowledgementsThe acknowledgments and the people to thank go here, don t forget to include yourproject advisor..xiContentsDeclaration of AuthorshipiiiAbstractviiAcknowledgements ix1 Chapter Title and Thank You .. LaTeX .. (not so short) Introduction to LaTeX .. Short Math Guide for LaTeX .. LaTeX Math Symbols .. on a Mac .. Started with this Template .. this Template .. this Template Includes .. in Your Information in .. Explained .. Features and Conventions .. Format .. US Letter Paper ..6A Note on bibtex .. mathematics .. and Subsectioning .. Closing .. 10A Frequently Asked How do I change the colors of links? .. 11 Bibliography13xiiiList of Electron.

3 8xvList of effects of treatments X and Y on the four groups studied..8xviiList of AbbreviationsLAH ListAbbreviationsHereWSF What (it)StandsForxixPhysical ConstantsSpeed of Lightc0= 924 58 108m s 1(exact)xxiList of SymbolsadistancemPpowerW (J s 1) angular frequencyradxxiiiFor/Dedicated to/To my..1 Chapter 1 Chapter Title Welcome and Thank YouWelcome to this LaTeX Thesis Template, a beautiful and easy to use template for writ-ing a Thesis using the LaTeX typesetting you are writing a Thesis (or will be in the future) and its subject is technicalor mathematical (though it doesn t have to be), then creating it in LaTeX is highlyrecommended as a way to make sure you can just get down to the essential writingwithout having to worry over formatting or wasting time arguing with your is easily able to professionally typeset documents that run to hundreds orthousands of pages long. With simple mark-up commands, it automatically sets outthe table of contents, margins, page headers and footers and keeps the formattingconsistent and beautiful.

4 One of its main strengths is the way it can easily typesetmathematics, evenheavymathematics. Even if those equations are the most horri-bly twisted and most difficult mathematical problems that can only be solved on asuper-computer, you can at least count on LaTeX to make them look Learning LATEXLATEX is not aWYSIWYG(What You See is What You Get) program, unlike word pro-cessors such as Microsoft Word or Apple s Pages. Instead, a document written forLATEX is actually a simple, plain text file that containsno formatting. You tell LATEXhow you want the formatting in the finished document by writing in simple com-mands amongst the text, for example, if I want to useitalic text for emphasis, I writethe\emph{text}command and put the text I want in italics in between the curlybraces. This means that LaTeX is a mark-up language, very much like A (not so short) Introduction to LATEXIf you are new to LaTeX , there is a very good eBook freely available online as aPDF file called, The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX .

5 The book s Title istypically shortened to justlshort. You can download the latest version (as it is oc-casionally updated) from here: is also available in several other languages. Find yours from the list on thispage: is recommended to take a little time out to learn how to use LaTeX by creatingseveral, small test documents, or having a close look at several Templates on: 1. Chapter Title HereMaking the effort now means you re not stuck learning the system when what youreallyneed to be doing is writing your A Short Math Guide for LATEXIf you are writing a technical or mathematical Thesis , then you may want to readthe document by the AMS (American Mathematical Society) called, A Short MathGuide for LaTeX . It can be found online here: the Additional Documentation section towards the bottom of the Common LaTeX Math SymbolsThere are a multitude of mathematical symbols available for LaTeX and it would takea great effort to learn the commands for them all.

6 The most common ones you arelikely to use are shown on this page: can use this page as a reference or crib sheet, the symbols are rendered aslarge, high quality images so you can quickly find the LaTeX command for the symbolyou LaTeX on a MacThe LaTeX distribution is available for many systems including Windows, Linux andMac OS X. The package for OS X is called MacTeX and it contains all the applica-tions you need bundled together and pre-customized for a fully working LaTeX environment and work includes a custom dedicated LaTeX editor called TeXShop for writingyour .tex files and BibDesk: a program to manage your references and createyour bibliography section just as easily as managing songs and creating playlistsin Getting Started with this TemplateIf you are familiar with LaTeX , then you should explore the directory structure of thetemplate and then proceed to place your own information into theTHESIS INFOR-MATION block of You can then modify the rest of this file to yourunique specifications based on your degree/university.

7 Section on page 4 willhelp you do this. Make sure you also read section about Thesis conventions to getthe most out of this you are new to LaTeX it is recommended that you carry on reading through therest of the information in this you begin using this template you should ensure that its style complieswith the Thesis style guidelines imposed by your institution. In most cases this tem-plate style and layout will be suitable. If it is not, it may only require a small changeto bring the template in line with your institution s recommendations. These modi-fications will need to be done on About this TemplateThis LaTeX Thesis Template is originally based and created around a LaTeX style filecreated by Steve R. Gunn from the University of Southampton (UK), What this Template Includes3of Electronics and Computer Science. You can find his original Thesis style file at hissite, here: ~srg/softwaretools/document/ Templates /St eve then taken by Sunil Patel who modified it by creat-ing a skeleton framework and folder structure to place the Thesis files in.

8 The re-sulting template can be found on Sunil s site here: s template was made available it was modified many times based on user requests and questions. and onwards of this template represents a major modification to Sunil s templateand is, in fact, hardly recognisable. The work to make version possible wascarried out by Vel and Johannes B What this Template FoldersThis template comes as a single zip file that expands out to several files and folder names are mostly self-explanatory:Appendices this is the folder where you put the appendices. Each appendixshould go into its own An example and template are included inthe this is the folder where you put the Thesis chapters. A Thesis usuallyhas about six chapters, though there is no hard rule on this. Each chapter should goin its own and they can be split as: Chapter 1: Introduction to the Thesis topic Chapter 2: Background information and theory Chapter 3: (Laboratory) experimental setup Chapter 4: Details of experiment 1 Chapter 5: Details of experiment 2 Chapter 6: Discussion of the experimental results Chapter 7: Conclusion and future directionsThis chapter layout is specialised for the experimental sciences, your discipline maybe this folder contains all figures for the Thesis .

9 These are the final imagesthat will go into the Thesis FilesIncluded are also several files, most of them are plain text and you can see theircontents in a text editor. After initial compilation, you will see that more auxiliaryfiles are created by LaTeX or BibTeX and which you don t need to delete or this is an important file that contains all the bibliographic infor-mation and references that you will be citing in the Thesis for use with BibTeX. Youcan write it manually, but there are reference manager programs available that willcreate and manage it for you. Bibliographies in LaTeX are a large subject and you4 Chapter 1. Chapter Title Heremay need to read about BibTeX before starting with this. Many modern referencemanagers will allow you to export your references in BibTeX format which greatlyeases the amount of work you have to this is an important file. It is the class file that tellsLATEX how to format the this is your beautifully typeset Thesis (in the PDF file format) createdby LaTeX .

10 It is supplied in the PDF with the template and after you compile thetemplate you should get an identical this is an important file. This is the file that you tell LaTeX to compileto produce your Thesis as a PDF file. It contains the framework and constructs thattell LaTeX how to layout the Thesis . It is heavily commented so you can read exactlywhat each line of code does and why it is there. After you put your own informationinto theTHESIS INFORMATION block you have now started your Thesis !Files that arenotincluded, but are created by LaTeX as auxiliary files this is an auxiliary file generated by LaTeX , if it is deleted LaTeX simplyregenerates it when you run the this is an auxiliary file generated by BibTeX, if it is deleted, BibTeXsimply regenerates it when you run Whereas containsall the references you have, contains the references you have actuallycited in the Thesis and is used to build the bibliography section of the this is an auxiliary file generated by BibTeX, if it is deleted BibTeXsimply regenerates it when you run the this is an auxiliary file generated by LaTeX , if it is deleted LaTeX simplyregenerates it when you run the It tells LaTeX how to build theList this is an auxiliary file generated by LaTeX , if it is deleted LaTeX simplyregenerates it when you run the It contains messages from LaTeX , ifyou receive errors and warnings from LaTeX , they will be in this is an auxiliary file generated by LaTeX .