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Getting Started with LaTeX

At some point in your Princeton career, you will likely have to write a long paper replete with a table of contents and extensive bibliography, possibly containing complex mathematical equations, and/or multiple figures and tables. For many students, especially those in the social sciences or humanities, writing a research paper using word processing software like Microsoft Word will be the fastest and most intuitive method (especially with the help of automated citation tools ). However, for other students, formatting all of these features using regular word processors will be inefficient, or worse, create unsatisfactory results.

For these types of projects, you may benefit from a typesetting system capable of consistent structural layout, superior typographical quality, support for scientific equations, internally referencing figures and tables, and automatically compiling large bibliographies. Enter: LaTeX.

LaTeX is a free open-source typesetting system that uses code and text to generate a PDF document. It allows you to explicitly define formatting options so that document structure remains consistent. Although the workflow is completely inefficient for writing short documents, when it comes to large and complex papers, LaTeX can make life a lot easier. For projects like Senior Theses, many departments at Princeton even have LaTeX templates with correct formatting built-in. While struggling to get a handle on LaTeX last year, I learned some useful strategies that will help you vault over the learning curve:

Create and edit your documents in TeXstudio

After downloading LaTeX , you will be faced with a decision: which editor to use. The TeXstudio editor presents a beginner with all the necessary tools, so that fluency in TeX coding is not a prerequisite to getting started. After stumbling around in the dark with advanced barebones editing software, using TeXstudio was like turning the lights on. It provides templates to quickly start new documents, displays document structure in a sidebar, and has a user interface complete with helpful wizards and shortcuts to create complicated tables and write obscure mathematical symbols with ease.

Keep your projects well organized

Unlike word processors, which store text and images in one document file, LaTeX files are saved in multiple formats and store image and bibliography files separately. For this reason, you must   keep everything well organized and saved in one directory. This is crucial if you want your paper to compile!

Maintain an inventory of useful packages

Packages unlock the full power of LaTeX by customizing formatting and adding special features like internal references, image figures, and bibliographies. There are countless packages you can implement, and exploring them will help you build an inventory of ones you use regularly. Here are a few that I like to use:

fullpage         Change those ridiculous default margins and use the full page.

graphicx        If you want to put images in your document, you want this package .

hyperref         Hyper-text for url links and internal referencing to figures and citations is sweet.

Organize and compile your citations using BibDesk:

Formatting your bibliography can be extremely time-consuming, but automatic citation tools make it easier. Use BibDesk, which comes with your LaTeX download, to create a reference library saved as a TeX bibliography file. If you access references online, you can simply download citation files directly from the website, and drag them into your BibDesk library. Alternatively, you can use Mendeley to automatically generate a TeX bibliography.

If you can’t figure it out, Google it!

Coding in LaTeX can be intimidating, but there are an endless amount of online resources to help you succeed.

Writing in LaTeX has many advantages, and hopefully these suggestions will give you a head start, but it isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. However you choose to write your research paper, the broader ideas behind these specific tips still apply: find a writing system that works for you, keep your files and notes organized and accessible, use helpful tools and strategies that will make your project go smoothly, and keep track of your references. Most importantly, don’t hesitate to seek help!

– Alec Getraer ,  Natural Sciences Correspondent

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Begin Your Work Using the Official 'University' Thesis Template on Overleaf

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• Standard Word Processing Software   (manuscripts prepared in Microsoft Word or other word processing program)
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Please consult your editor or editorial assistant if you are unsure about which set of instructions is appropriate for your book.

For all production paths, the following requirements must be met before you submit your manuscript for production:

• Manuscript is final.
• Illustrations are complete and have been prepared according to production guidelines.
• Forms have been completed: Author Checklist and Copyright Information Form.
• Permissions have been acquired and documentation submitted to the editorial assistant.

Please submit your manuscript, art files, forms, and permissions documentation directly to your editor or editorial assistant. If you are not sure how best to submit your files to the Press—whether as email attachments, through a file transfer program, or as hard copy—please check with your editorial team. Reasonable accommodations may be provided upon request; please send requests to the acquiring editor of your work.

Thank you! We look forward to working with you during the production phase.

Standard Word Processing Software

For manuscripts prepared in Word or other word processing programs, please refer to these submission guides as you prepare your manuscript for production:

• Manuscript Submission Guide
• Art Submission Guide

These instructions are intended for submission of manuscripts prepared in LaTeX, AMS-TeX, or other versions of TeX for either of the following two production paths.

Author as Compositor

For projects in which you, the author, have contracted to input corrections after copyediting and implement the final book layout as directed by production, the first step is to download the Princeton University Press LaTeX class file .  (For Annals of Mathematics Studies, use this package .) To download the file, right-click on the link and “save as” to your local drive (if you left-click and the file appears in your browser window, you can go to File > Save As). Please refer to the following resources as you prepare your manuscript for production:

• TeX Manuscript Submission Guide

TeX Art Submission Guide

Please contact your editor if you require additional technical support.

PUP Compositor

For projects in which the Press will input corrections after copyediting and will design and implement the final book layout, please format your manuscript using stock book.cls and refer to the following resources as you prepare your manuscript for production:

Your manuscript submission must include completed versions of the following forms:

Author Checklist

• Copyright Information Form   (To access this form, please download it to your computer: right-click and choose “Save Link As…” to download an editable Excel file. Please note that the form will not display properly if you attempt to open it directly in the browser.) Please note: this form has three tabs.
• Sample Permissions Letter  
• Sample Interview Release Form  

Copyright Information Form and Permissions Documentation

We require this information to document the rights secured for third-party content as well as to complete copyright registration. We require copies of all permissions correspondence, including licenses, email exchanges, and invoices, labeled with the corresponding figure number (for figure permissions) or chapter (for text permissions). Failure to complete and return the Copyright Information Form (CIF) with accompanying permissions documentation will limit our ability to sublicense foreign language editions, electronic rights, and permissions requests. It will also delay book production.

Unless otherwise stipulated in your author contract, you, as author (or editor of a multiauthor volume), are legally responsible for complying with copyright law, and you must clear permissions to reprint or reproduce material protected by copyright. Sample request letters are available to use as a starting point for requesting permission  or interview releases .

Our permissions guidelines and resources page  provides detailed information about the use of third-party material, including our policies on Fair Use and our Permissions Guidelines for Press authors.

How to fill out the Copyright Information Form (CIF)

Note that there are  three tabs  at the bottom of the Excel document. Please fill out each worksheet with a response in each cell. Please return the completed form as an attachment, together with all relevant permissions documentation.

Copyright Information Tab:  (required)

• Date of birth : for copyright registration of your work
• Country of citizenship :   for copyright registration of your work
• Previously copyrighted content :   is this work a revision of a dissertation that has previously been copyrighted? If so, please send a copy of either the previous LOC certificate or the certificate number and year of registration.

Text Permissions CIF Tab:  (if there are no text permissions required, please indicate “no text permissions”)

• Location : page numbers or figure number from manuscript
• Brief description : the beginning and end of the quotation
• Source : publication details for original source (title, publisher, year of publication, URL)
• Copyright holder : rightsholder (publisher, individual, organization)
• Credit Line : source attribution, usually provided on permissions licenses
• Location for Credit Line : If license does not specify where the credit must appear, indicate “NA.”
• Written permission received : Written permission is required. Email authorizations are acceptable provided that print and digital rights have been requested in the initial inquiry.
• Print rights : okay for print formats? This is required for all content.
• Digital rights : okay for digital formats? This is required for all content.
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• Print Run Restrictions : print run will be noted in publication details
• Language Rights : we prefer rights to all languages, but English rights to be secured minimally
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Figure Permissions CIF Tab:  (if no figures require permission, please indicate “no figure permissions”)

• Figure or plate no. in ms : figure numbers should be numbered consecutively per the chapter in which they appear
• Brief description : figure caption or description
• Reprinted, original, adapted, or redrawn : Original (author owns rights); Reproduction (a scan, copy, or slide from a third party (may need permission); Redrawn: Redrawn from third party image (may need permission); Modified: Redrawn with changes (may need permission).
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• Do we have publicity/promotional rights?  Can this image be used in advertising for your book?

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The Princeton University Archives located within the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library is the official repository for Undergraduate Senior Theses, Master's Theses and Ph.D. Dissertations. Princeton University undergraduate senior theses range from 1924 to the present.

The following page includes all information for submission, searching & accessing copies of a Princeton University Undergraduate Senior Theses, Princeton University Ph.D. Dissertations or Master's Theses.

Searching for & Ordering a copy of a Princeton University Undergraduate Senior Theses

The Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library is the central repository for Princeton University undergraduate senior theses from 1924 to the present.

• Members of the University community with an active NetID can access digital theses in Dataspace when connected to any Princeton-networked computer (if you’re not on campus, please first connect to the campus network via the GlobalProtect or SonicWall desktop applications).
• Independent researchers who are not members of the University community (including Princeton alumni) should use DataSpace to browse senior theses. Please create a Special Collections Research Account prior to submitting the Senior Thesis Order Form. In some cases we will be unable to digitize the senior thesis due to an embargo that prohibits digital access. Copyright of the theses are held by the author.
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Searching for & Ordering a copy of a Princeton University Ph.D. Dissertation or Master's Theses

All researchers, prior to contacting Mudd Library, should search the following platforms for the dissertation they are in need of: 

For Princeton Ph.D. Dissertations from 2011 - present, please search and access via the Dataspace repository for Princeton University Doctoral Dissertations . These are accessible to everyone for free, regardless of Princeton University association.

To obtain Princeton Ph.D. Dissertations from 2010 and earlier, if you are associated with an institution that has a ProQuest Library Subscription, the dissertation may be available to download for free through the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global search .

If a circulating copy is available via the Princeton University Catalog , those within the United States and Canada who have access to a local Interlibrary Loan service (ILL ) or Borrow Direct can request physical delivery through their library. 

If you are not associated with an institution with a ProQuest Library Subscription, you can purchase the dissertation through ProQuest Dissertation Express .

For Master’s Theses search the Princeton University Library Catalog and contact Mudd Library to discuss digitization of the original.

If the dissertation is unavailable in any of the above platforms, please contact Mudd Library to discuss digitization of the original. Mudd Library is only able to digitize those that are out of copyright or unavailable via ProQuest. In some cases we will be unable to digitize the dissertation due to an embargo placed by the student that prohibits digital access. If this is the case, the dissertation can only be viewed in the Mudd Library Reading Room after placing a request via the Princeton University Catalog . Copyright of the dissertations are held by the author.

The MIT thesis template in LaTeX

The latex template.

The current MIT thesis template was developed in 2023, using up-to-date LaTeX coding, to meet the current formatting requirements of the MIT Libraries. The title and abstract pages are automatically laid out from information provided by the user. This template includes options to use a variety of fonts, and it is compatible with either pdfTeX or unicode engines such as luaLaTeX. When using LaTeX formats dated November 2022 or later, the resulting pdf file meets the PDF/A-2b archivability standard. A standard TeX Live installation includes all other packages required by the template.

This template was written by John Lienhard at the request of the MIT Libraries.

• Documentation: Documentation for the template is available in pdf format here .
• Download: The most current LaTeX files for this template are distributed through the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN): https://ctan.org/pkg/mitthesis Download
• Overleaf.com: A copy of the thesis template is also present in Overleaf.com's template gallery, here . Overleaf includes all the packages in TeX Live, so no additional downloads are needed. Learn more about Overleaf at MIT .

Specifications for MIT theses

The formatting requirements for MIT theses are set by the MIT Libraries, as described at this url: http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/thesis-specs/ . Questions regarding these specifications should be directed to [email protected] .

The original LaTeX 2.09 template was written by Stephen Gildea in the late 1980s (also in CTAN, here ). That template was edited by many later students, leading to the files archived here.

LaTeX has changed greatly since the original MIT thesis template was written. LaTeX 2.09 was replaced by LaTeX2e in 1994. New engines were developed, particularly pdfTeX during the 1990s and Unicode-aware engines in the decades that followed. Many packages and fonts were developed to accompany the original platform, particularly after 2000; and major updates to the LaTeX kernel began in 2018. Over the years, the MIT Libraries have changed the required format several times, especially as electronic thesis submission has become the norm. The original template served MIT well; but by the early 2020s, it was substantially out of date. That situation motivated the creation of this new template.

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Different LaTex templates can be used to change the structure and design of your LaTex documents. For example, there are templates available to create resumes, cv's, articles, theses, and other types of documents. Both Overleaf and Authorea allow you to search for templates shared on their platform. When writing an article for publication, you can also often find LaTex templates for specific publications on the publishers webiste or by contacting them.

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Udi Ofer, the John L. Weinberg visiting professor and lecturer of public and international affairs, was unanimously named a lifetime member of the Council on Criminal Justice.

The Council on Criminal Justice advances understanding of the criminal justice policy choices facing the nation and builds consensus for solutions that enhance safety and justice for all. The Council is a catalyst for progress based on facts, evidence, and fundamental principles of justice. Above all, the Council is founded on the belief that a fair and effective criminal justice system is essential to democracy and a core measure of our nation's well-being.

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LaTeX Thesis Template for Ningxia University

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NxuThesis 是 N ing x ia U niversity Thesis LaTeX Template 的缩写。

此宏包旨在建立一个简单易用的宁夏大学学位论文 LaTeX 模板

NxuThesis is an abbreviation of N ing x ia U niversity Thesis LaTeX Template.

This package establishes a simple and easy-to-use LaTeX template for Ningxia dissertations.

Template for a Masters or Doctoral Thesis

This LaTeX template is used by many universities as the basis for thesis and dissertation submissions, and is a great way to get started if you haven't been provided with a specific version from your department.

This version of the template is provided by Vel at LaTeXTemplates.com , and is already loaded in Overleaf so you can start writing immediately.

Checkout this short video to see how to easily create and edit new chapters as your thesis develops.

Please read the unofficial quick guide to the template; it contains some tips and suggestions on how to modify certain things.

(Updated 27/08/17)

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