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Writing a master's or ph.d. thesis, latex dissertation template, how to graduate: the paperwork, pandemic update (spring 2021).

Note: What appears below, with permission, began as a slightly edited version of unofficial advice from MGSA, the UC Berkeley Mathematics Graduate Student Associate, with Berkeley specific information removed. Over time this document has evolved to contain a great deal of UC Davis-specific information as well as current LaTeX templates.

(Thanks to Megumi Harada) Steps to your goal:

• Start early . Jot down notes when you talk to your advisor. Keep them somewhere that you'll be able to find them again. Often, you find that little notes you write can serve as a “seed” to start the writing process.
• Write a little each day. Obvious, and yet few people follow this advice. Even just one hour a day, divided into four 15-minute sessions, goes a long way if you keep at it for a month.
• Get your advisor to look at small parts of drafts and chapters early on.

All information is subject to change. Current information specific to filing a doctoral thesis at UC Davis can be found via the Grad Studies website .

There are several websites dedicated to Using LaTeX to Write a PhD Thesis . But since you're in the UC Davis math department, your best bet is to use a template that was specifically created for UC Davis math students.

Download: 2024 template (Overleaf compatible)

This template was created originally by Tyrell McAllister with later edits by Jeff Irion, John Challenor, Will Wright, and David Haley in order to keep the template current with formatting requirements. In 2024, Greg DePaul updated the template to be overleaf compatible.

Once you pass your Qual, download the dissertation template! Fill in some basic info (name, major, committee members' names, etc.), and add to your dissertation while you work on your research. After all, it's easier to write and cite as you go than to do it months/years later when that stuff isn't fresh in your mind.

This is an unofficial guide . Please see Preparing & Filing Your Thesis or Dissertation for the official set of instructions.

• Take note of the filing deadlines . They recommend completing your dissertation in time to give it to your committee for review at the beginning of the quarter in which you intend to graduate. In most cases, your committee probably won't need that much time, but you should check in with your committee members well in advance to make sure they'll be around when you need them.
• Once your committee members have signed your dissertation's title page, you can file your dissertation electronically (see the Grad Studies website linked above for the specific instructions). The Grad Studies office will review it to make sure that it is formatted correctly and let you know if any corrections need to be made. They will then inform you when your dissertation has been approved, after which time no further changes are allowed.
• The final step is to make an appointment with the Senior Academic Advisor for Mathematics and Applied Mathematics (as of Spring 2020, this is Brad Wolf ). This appointment can't take place until at least two business days after you file your dissertation online (and it must have been approved). The purpose of this appointment is to file the remaining paperwork and receive an official letter confirming your degree.

As of Spring 2021, the documents you will need to bring are as follows (see the official checklist here ).

• Your title page with the signatures of your committee members.
• One copy of your abstract.
• The dissertation embargo agreement (this requires your advisor's signature even if you aren't planning on an embargo on your dissertation).
• Two online surveys: The Survey of Earned Doctorates and the Graduate Studies Exit Survey. Each will give you a completion code which you will need to provide.
• The Graduate Program Exit Information form. As of Spring 2021, this requires a signature from either Tina or Vanessa.

The three documents with signatures obviously must be physical copies. The other item can be emailed to the Academic Advisor when you set up your appointment.

Given that we've all become hermits here in our underground bunkers, only occasionally opening Zoom to remind ourselves that other people exist in this world, a few changes have been made to the process. These may or may not be permanent changes going forward. Always consult the Graduate Studies page if you are unsure about current requirements.

• The title page must be a single form signed by all committee members, but those signatures can be electronic. It must still be ONE form. As having multiple persons sign a single PDF is not as easy as it sounds, I recommend to download the Word Template that is provided on the Graduate Studies page . It can easily be edited to contain your information, and adding signatures to a Word document is arguably simpler than teaching your committee members to add signatures to a PDF without accidentally closing it to future edits.
• The signed title page must be submitted by your committee chair, or else your program chair (the coordinator might also work – check me on this). Since your committee chair is also one of the people who will be signing your dissertation, it makes sense to have them sign last, and then they can send the form to the Senior Academic Advisor directly. You cannot submit the title page yourself – this is a measure implemented to help prevent fraud and forgery.
• All documents can be submitted digitally to the Senior Academic Advisor (and ideally, all in the same email, except the title page). You'll probably want to then schedule a Zoom appointment with the Advisor to go over your materials and make sure that they are complete.
• Remember that you must schedule an exit seminar before the Program Exit Information form can be signed.

Older Templates

The “ucdavisthesis” LaTeX package maintained by Ryan Scott has a number of convenient macros that can generate a dissertation. It is loosely based on an earlier version of the math department template. It is also available in most TeX distributions by default (including Overleaf), and so accessing it is also convenient. However, editing the package to keep up with changes to formatting requirements requires some thought. To that end, you might be interested in one of the following two documents which bring the template up to date with Spring 2021 requirements:

• ucdavisthesis.cls : Add this to the root directory of your Overleaf document
• ucdavisthesis.dtx : Use this version if you are the kind of person who likes to compile your own stuff

The 2020 version of the math department template can be found here . It differs from the 2021 version only in the way that the page numbers are written (it places hyphens on either side of roman numerals, but not on the other pages).

A previous template that complied with UCD's requirements as of 2012 was created by Sean Whalen and can be found on GitHub . It has not been maintained since 2012 and so is not up-to-date with the current formatting requirements.

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Style files (LaTeX) for theses at Penn Math

Theses at Penn (masters and Ph.D.) must be submitted according to the  official university guidelines .

The following style files can serve as a guide in preparing masters or doctoral theses in the correct format. (You should still check the official university website listed above, to see other details and to adjust to any changes that may have been made.)

• Ph.D. LaTeX style file (The University provides a standard LaTeX template that complies with all formatting requirements)
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• Masters thesis style
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Latex files and templates.

This page contains links to several LaTeX files, provided by graduate students in our department, that were useful to the contributors when they prepared their theses. Below are also resources such as posters and presentations.

LaTeX files for theses

These files are made available "as is". This means it is your responsibility to check that the documents you produce will meet current OSU Graduate School thesis requirements.

Each file contains comment lines that explain its purpose and background information.

• Document class file
• Style option file
• First class option
• Second class option
• Third class option
• Template file
• A PDF document that shows the output produced by the OSUMathThesisTemplate.tex file (note that the first page is an obligatory blank flyleaf)
• Update of gthesis2
• BeavTex, by Neville Mehta (among others)

Other LaTeX templates

These files are made available "as is".

• Style files and .tex source file to create a beamer poster with beamercolorthemeosu style (updated 2024)
• Style files and .tex source file to create a beamer presentation with beambercolorthemeosu style (updated 2024)
• A presentation from NCSU on getting started with Beamer (presentations).

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The Graduate School's dissertation and thesis guidelines can be found here .

Below you can download Latex templates for writing dissertations.

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Caution : Requirements of the Graduate School may have changed since this was written. Check their formatting page here for Dissertations and Theses .

In Mathematics most papers are written in a type setting markup language called LaTeX - which evolved from TeX. It is much better at handling equations than Word type programs. It will also automatically number theorems, lemmas, definitions and bibliographic entries. The various LaTeX processing programs can be found at CTAN . They are free. The download time is about an hour. For Windows most people would download proTeX while Mac users would need MacTeX. Extra packages can be included to handle specialized needs such as graphics, commutative diagrams, chemistry notation and even chess moves.

LaTeX is a computer programming language. When you run the program it creates your document as output. It is not like Word where you see the final result as you type. As with most programs there is some header material, then the program begins, then it ends. In LaTeX the header starts with

\documentclass[*]{format}

where * is 10pt or 12pt and sets the default font size and format may be "article", "report", "amsart", "book" or various other options. For your report, thesis or dissertation use "siugrad51" as the format. In the header various packages are included such as

\usepackage{graphicx}

which loads a graphics package. There are also commands for setting formatting options for theorems and such. None of this in the output. Then a

\begin{document}

indicates the beginning of the executable program. The final line is

\end{document}

In between will be the commands and text that generate your title page, table of contents, the body of your paper, and the bibliography.

There are many books and web-pages, in addition to CTAN, on how to use LaTeX. Here are two sites.

• https://www.latex-project.org/help/books/
• https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX

The main file is Thesis.tex . It is the file to run in whatever LaTeX program you are using. It is used for reports and dissertations in addition to theses. Thesis.tex needs various other files however. The first of these is siugrad51.cls . Never edit this file.

The other files you will edit with your information. For example, your abstract will be in the file Abstract.tex . Edit this file to replace the sample abstract with your own.

The sample has three chapters. You will likely have more. You can create files ch4.tex , ch5.tex and so on. You will need to edit the Thesis.tex file so that it knows to include these.

The *.ps files have figures in them. Ignore them if you do not need figures in your paper.

Here is a list of the major files:

• siugrad51.cls
• Copyright.tex
• Abstract.tex
• Approval.tex (Your committee approves your work.)
• Acknow.tex (For any acknowledgments: "My advisor helped soooo much ...")
• Dedication.tex ("I dedicate this to my parents.")
• Preface.tex (Why my work is so important! Not needed for reports.)
• Biblio.tex (For the bibliography.)
• Vita.tex (Hire me! Hire me!!)

Learning LaTeX takes some practice. Here are a couple of simpler sample documents.

• Calculator practice sheet: LaTeX file . Resulting PDF file .
• Calculus quiz: LaTeX file . Resulting PDF file .

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PhD/MPhil Thesis - a LaTeX Template

A new version of this, by Krishna Kumar, is available. Features include -

• Conforms to the Student Registry PhD dissertation guidelines and CUED PhD guidelines
• Supports LaTeX, XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX
• Adaptive Title Page: Title page adapts to title length
• Title page with both College and University crests.
• Print / On-line version: Different layout and hyper-referencing styles
• Pre-defined and custom fonts (Times / Fourier / Latin Modern) with math support
• Supports system fonts (XeLaTeX)
• Pre-defined and custom bibliography style support (authoryear / numbered / custom)
• Custom page styles: 3 Different Header / Footer styles
• Pre-defined and custom margin size
• A separate abstract with thesis title and author name, along with the titlepage can be generated by passing the argument abstract to the document class.
• Option to generate only specific chapters and references without the frontmatter and title page. Useful for review and corrections.
• Draft mode: Draft water mark, timestamp, version numbering and line numbering

July 2018: On CUED's central Linux system, you'll need to change Preamble/preamble.tex , commenting out the \usepackage{siunitx} ... line by putting a % symbol at the start of it. (some of our packages are too out of date)

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• LaTeX Template - https://github.com/kks32/phd-thesis-template/releases/latest
• LyX Template - https://github.com/kks32/PhDThesisLyX/releases

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The IU Thesis Document class is a LaTeX document class that produces output acceptable (as of Summer 2018) for an Indiana University Bloomington Master’s or Doctoral thesis. It is available free for anybody's use, but comes with no warranty. In particular, the author is not responsible if it produces output that is not acceptable to the Graduate School. This document class is not officially sanctioned by the University Graduate School, although several theses have been written with it and accepted.

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A PhD thesis LaTeX template, according to the rules of the Combined Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Heidelberg University, Germany .

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The class definition file is hdphdthesis.cls , and the example thesis template is main.tex . The chapter texts and the figures are stored in the chapters and figures directories, respectively.

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Latex3 template for hkust thesis (ph.d. or mphil.), latex3 template for hkust thesis, introduction.

This project provides a LaTeX3 template for HKUST Thesis to fulfill the requirements for Ph.D. and MPhil. graduation.

Getting started

For general users.

• Download the zip file hkust-thesis-v*.zip from the latest release .
• Read the PDF documentation – hkustthesis.pdf and follow the sample thesis file – mythesis.tex in the release.
• We recommend Visual Studio Code with LaTeX Workshop extention as the editor. Then, run the build_mythesis command we pre-defined to compile the thesis file.

For command line users

After downloading the release file, you can compile from command line by:

• Makefile . make all make clean
• latexmk : latexmk latexmk -c
• XeLaTeX : xelatex mythesis.tex biber mythesis xelatex mythesis.tex xelatex mythesis.tex

For developers

• Fork the Github repo and develop on your branch.
• Read through the documentation hkustthesis.pdf including the implementation section.
• File issues and PRs for your contribution.

There’s no .cls file in the repository and you need to compile yourself.

• For VS Code and LaTeX Workshop , run the commands as extract_dtx before running build_mythesis . Then you get the documentation and sample theis.
• For command line users: xetex hkustthesis.dtx

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Your thesis or dissertation is often the most important single piece of work you’ll produce as a student (whether it be your final year undergraduate research project or your complete Masters / PhD thesis). These templates, many provided by the university themselves as official layout guidelines, include sections for you to add all the relevant author information (your university, department, supervisor, year, etc) along with placeholder chapters for your introduction, background, method, results, conclusion / discussion, references and appendices.

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