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Tips and tools for writing your LaTeX thesis or dissertation in Overleaf, including templates, managing references , and getting started guides.

Managing References

BibTeX is a file format used for lists of references for LaTeX documents. Many citation management tools support the ability to export and import lists of references in .bib format. Some reference management tools can generate BibTeX files of your library or folders for use in your LaTeX documents.

LaTeX on Wikibooks has a Bibliography Management page.

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How to get started writing your thesis in LaTeX

Writing a thesis or dissertation in LaTeX can be challenging, but the end result is well worth it - nothing looks as good as a LaTeX-produced pdf, and for large documents it's a lot easier than fighting with formatting and cross-referencing in MS Word. Review this video from Overleaf to help you get started writing your thesis in LaTeX, using a standard thesis template from the Overleaf Gallery .

You can upload your own thesis template to the Overleaf Gallery if your university provides a set of LaTeX template files or you may find your university's thesis template already in the Overleaf Gallery.

This video assumes you've used LaTeX before and are familiar with the standard commands (see our other tutorial videos  if not), and focuses on how to work with a large project split over multiple files.

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5-part Guide on How to Write a Thesis in LaTeX

5-part LaTeX Thesis Writing Guide

Part 1: Basic Structure corresponding  video

Part 2: Page Layout corresponding  video

Part 3: Figures, Subfigures and Tables   corresponding video

Part 4: Bibliographies with Biblatex corresponding video

Part 5: Customizing Your Title Page and Abstract corresponding video

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Graduate Education

Office of graduate and postdoctoral education, thesis templates.

The following thesis format templates should help you get started with formatting your thesis or dissertation. Georgia Tech provides free Overleaf Professional accounts for all students, faculty, and staff who would like to use the collaborative, online LaTeX editor for their projects.

• LaTeX Template (.zip) - updated May 2020
• Featured LaTeX templates on Overleaf
• Word Thesis Template (.docx) - updated August 2016
• Georgia Tech Engineering Reference Management System (GTERMS)

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• Set the Quick Build command configuration to: “PdfLaTeX + Bib(la)tex) + PdfLaTeX (x2) + View Pdf”.
• Use the Quick Build command to compile and view your .pdf file.
• If you decide to use a “build” subdirectory for output files, you must point BibTeX to the proper subdirectory.

LaTeX is a powerful text processing and formatting tool that produces clean, consistent results. This high-quality typesetting system is a free service provided by Georgia Tech. It is available on many platforms and can be used with the editor of your choice. LaTeX is the de facto standard for the communication and publication of scientific documents.

Although Graduate Education does not offer direct technical support, Tech does provide help via campus partners such as the Library and Overleaf (online LaTeX editor). Please check the Library events page for courses on LaTex, or contact Overleaf directly.

Many students have also found useful tips for dealing with specific problems by entering keywords such as "LaTeX formatting table captions" in their favorite search engines.

Most Common LaTeX to PDF Problem

The most common problem we see with Electronic Theses & Dissertations (ETDs) created in LaTeX is the altering of the page size, particularly an increase of the bottom margin to more than one inch, and sometimes an accompanying decrease in the top and/or right margins to less than the requisite one inch. Less frequently, there will also be problems with figures disappearing or changing appearance. The sizing error may be introduced inadvertently during the conversion from .dvi to .pdf or .ps when the program doing the converting defaults to the A4 European page size. Always check your PDF file after conversion, even if your source file looked perfect.

The following fixes have been found by your fellow Tech graduate students and passed along to the Graduate Thesis Office. We hope they help you:

• First, before converting the .tex file to .dvi, make sure the class header file in your .tex file says something like "\documentclass[12pt, letter]{article}".
• If you are converting the resulting .dvi file to a .ps file, be sure the dvips options specify "-P pdf -t letter".
• When you are converting to .pdf from either the .dvi file directly or from a .ps file, locate the C:\texmf\dvipdfm\config\config\ or analogous folder for PDFs in your system. Replace the line "p a4" with "p letter".

Check our frequently asked questions (FAQ) to see if your question has already been answered. Else, contact Graduate Education at [email protected] .

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An academic thesis, also known as a dissertation, is a substantial work produced by a graduate student to communicate their research and earn a degree. A thesis will typically include a review of the current state of research in the field of study followed by a central hypothesis to be investigated. The bulk of the thesis will then focus on the methods and results of the research performed, followed by a discussion on how the results add to the field in general. Theses are long, highly structured and include a lot of advanced document elements.

This template is designed for writing books and graduate-level theses and provides numerous examples and documentation to enable complex requirements. The design features a relatively narrow main text column with an adjacent wide margin to house notes, figures, tables, citations and captions.

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Masters/Doctoral Thesis

This template provides a full framework for writing a graduate level thesis. It is carefully structured and separated into multiple parts for easy editing. Included are the following pages/sections: a cover page, declaration of authorship, quotation, abstract, acknowledgements, contents page(s), list of figures, list of tables, abbreviations, physical constants, symbols, dedication, example chapter, example appendix and bibliography.

Classicthesis Typographic Thesis

This template has been designed as a homage to the Elements of Typographic Style. As such, it has an air of efficiency and optimal design. It is suitable for any high-level degree thesis such as for a PhD, Masters or Honors. Sections within the thesis are clearly separated in a consistent way, as are sections within each chapter. The default structure of the thesis proceeds in the following order: title page, dedication, abstract, publications, acknowledgements, contents, list of tables/figures/listings, acronyms, content chapters, appendices, bibliography, colophon and declaration.

Maggi Memoir Thesis

This template uses the memoir document class to beautifully typeset a thesis. It is suitable for any high-level degree thesis such as for a PhD, Masters or Honors. The layout of the content is in a thin format to promote easy reading and the template features advanced specification of margins and trimming. The thesis boasts a professional look which is immediately obvious from the title page itself and carries through the design of the rest of the document. Three custom fonts are used in the template to match the design and beautifully display your content.

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Simple and extensive report/thesis and article LaTeX templates. Easy-to-use. Ideal for complex documents.

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Organized and minimal class files to simplify customization. Nearly 70% shorter compared to the abandoned official report template.

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Ready-to-go when it comes to the document and file structure. Start writing your thesis within seconds.

Templates for degree project reports, theses and student presentations

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The graphical profile of KTH  puts requirements on the layout of degree project reports and theses. There are no official templates. The Language Committee therefore has produced the following templates that students may use.

Templates for degree project reports

• Report template in  LaTeX OverLeaf  ( Getting started with Overleaf )
• Report template in  DOCX (e.g. MS Word)
• Cover template  (docx), where the subject area of the thesis has to be inserted manually using the instructions in next item
• How to express the subject area at the top of the cover
• Cover templates  (docx), where  the subject area can be chosen in drop-down menus

Templates for licentiate and doctoral theses

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Template for slide shows

Masters of Engineering Project Report Template

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LaTeX - Template for a bachelor/master thesis

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Folders and files, repository files navigation, latex template for a thesis, compile the tex-file (in texworks), biber (in texworks), cites and footnotes, getting started.

Download the latest version of TeX Live from here . The installation can take a while, so be patient ;)

You can use the editor of your choice. It's highly recommended for this template to use the LaTeX-Workshop-Extension for VS Code . There you can compile the tex-files very easily and you get a good support with autocompletion for references or bibliography.

Another editor can be found in TeXworks editor . The editor should already be included in the TeX Live package. You can find the .exe in the installation folder of your TeX Live distribution ( ...\texlive\2017\bin\win32\texworks.exe ). Otherwise download the latest version from the website .

The following descriptions are for TeXworks only. If you use VS Code LaTeX-Workshop you can skip these sections because it does the things automatically.

Finally you want to see the template working so you need to open the file thesis.tex with the TeXworks editor. On the top left you can press the green button to compile the template. Be sure that you select pdfLaTeX in the select box next to the green compile button. Now the compiler should run without any errors and the preview of the PDF opens up. The content of the table of contents or the list of figures are not rendered yet. You need to compile the template twice.

As you may have noticed the footnote for the cites are not rendered yet very well. To compile the cites and the bibliography settings you need biber . You have to select the biber -compiler instead of the pdfLaTeX in the selection next to the green compiler button.

You cannot find biber there?

You just have to set up the TeXworks editor that it shows the biber -compiler. Go into the settings of TeXworks (under Edit > Settings... ) and select the tab Typesetting . Under the point Processing tools click on the + and add biber . Name it 'Biber' and select the program under your installation folder of texlive (e.g. C:/texlive/2015/bin/win32/biber.exe ). You have to add the argument $basename and uncheck the option to view pdf after running .

Now select biber in the dropdown list next to the compile button to run biber . After that you need to run pdfLaTeX again and then you should have the literature correctly in your template.

Did not get the configuration of biber ? Look here for some screenshots.

Project structure

There's one main file called thesis.tex which can be found in the root folder. This file includes all the other files needed for the whole template. The content is splitted up into files which can be found in the folder chapters .

The chapters are included like this:

All settings are located under the settings -folder.

The settings will be included with these commands in the thesis.tex -file:

All images are located under the images -folder. Because of the settings ( settings/graphics.tex ) we do not need the whole file path when we load an image into the content. You can just write the name of the image.

The 'real' image is located under images/ and has the full file name sample.jpeg . You can easily change the default images path in the settings/graphics.tex -file.

Add image with caption The following code shows how to include an image in a figure environment. The image has a width of 100% of the page. If you want another width just change it, e.g. 300px. The caption of the image in the [] is the text that will be shown in the list of figures after the table of contents. The text in the {} is shown as title under the image. With the label-text you can refer the image in the text with: \autoref{fig:imageYouCanReferTo} shows that... .

If you have a smaller image and you want to center it, you can set it up with the centering -command:

The template uses the KomaScript -bundle. Need more information?

Big point for a thesis: how to handle the required literature and how to include cites into the thesis?

As you can see ( settings/bibliography.tex ) the template uses the package biblatex . In the settings file you need to include your resource files.

As you can see in the example above we have already a literature file in the sources -folder with the following entry:

The sources will be divided either in "Online"-sources or "Literature"-sources.

This can be configured in the thesis.tex -file:

Make sure to run the LaTeX compiler for at least 3 times to see the contents of the literature section properly.

Wait! Do I need to update those entries every time manually? This can be really ugly over time. The solution is JabRef . JabRef is a small but very useful java application to handle our sources and to update the .bib -files in our sources -folder.

Download JabRef from the website and open your .bib -files with it. Here you can easily update your sources through a user interface.

How to use the sources in my content?

You need to know the keyword of your defined source of the .bib -file (in the example this is jondoe ). Then write the following syntax to create a footnote in your thesis:

Citation as footnote

Harvard citation style

If you prefer the harvard citation style (Doe, 2016) you should use the following commands:

You may notice that if you want to use the same source multiple times in a paragraph you will see something like this:

Never heard of "ebd"?

Remember to compile your thesis with biber to render the cites correctly.

Normal footnote If you want to add a normal footnote to add some further information:

The template provides some listings for CSS , HTML and JavaScript . You will find the definition of the listings under settings/listings.tex .

In the settings you have to define the language with its keywords and other needed options...

and then you also need to define a style to style the definition of the language...

and use it in the content later...

Minted package

Another very good package for listings is minted .

Inline listing

For inline listings just use the custom command \code{console.log()} . This command is defined in the settings/commands.tex -file.

You can define the colors in the settings/colors.tex -file.

Use colors in the text: