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The MIT thesis template in LaTeX

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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.

• Download The most current LaTeX files for this template are distributed through the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN): https://ctan.org/pkg/mitthesis
• Documentation Documentation for the template in pdf format Documentation: here . -->
• Gallery of fonts Sample theses in the font sets defined by the template. Gallery of fonts: here . -->
• Sample title pages Sample title pages for various combinations of authors and degrees. Sample title pages: are here . -->
• Overleaf The template is also in Overleaf.com's template gallery. Overleaf.com: , here .--> Learn more about Overleaf at MIT .

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

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 The original template served MIT well; but by the early 2020s, it was substantially out of date.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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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
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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".

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Double check your formatting with the  PhD Dissertation Formatting Checklist  before submission.

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Note: Forms required for the submission of theses and dissertations are available on the  Academic Forms  page.

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• Information is available in Section IV.B.2 Research on Human Subjects of the  Graduate Bulletin   (from the  Resources and Policies page ).
• Additional information and forms are available on the   IRB website . Your IRB approval number must be included on the Thesis or Dissertation Proposal Form.
• Consult the  Guidelines for Dissertation, Doctoral Project and Thesis Writers  before beginning your thesis or dissertation.
• Download a template to assist with formatting your work. The templates are unlocked and can be edited (links to the template can be found in the “Submission Procedures” sections below).
• Check the Resources & Guidelines section of the ProQuest website for instructions on using the site. The Library has created a very informative series of  short videos  about the choices you must make on the ProQuest site.
• Additional information on copyright, publishing options and other topics is available on  Lauinger’s Scholarly Communication  website.
• More information about the requirements for dissertations, doctoral projects and theses can be found in the  Graduate Bulletin .

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(for Master’s and Doctoral candidates) We recommend that you download a Thesis / Doctoral Project / Dissertation Template using Mozilla Firefox, Safari, or Google Chrome browsers. There are some reported issues for students trying to download using Internet Explorer. The download links are shown below:

• The combined  Master’s Thesis / Doctoral Project / Doctoral Dissertation Template  for MS-Word for Windows is available at: Thesis/Project/Dissertation Template-PC
• The  Master’s   Thesis Template  for Word for Mac is available at:  Thesis Template-MAC
• The  Doctoral Template  for Word for Mac is available at  Dissertation Template-MAC
• If you use the LaTeX markup language, you can download a ZIP file folder containing several template and style documents, as well as an extensive tutorial manual, at this link:  Thesis/Dissertation Template-LaTeX . An updated .sty file was uploaded in June 2020.

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PhD thesis formatting

There is no official pre-made departmental or University-wide style template for PhD theses. Some argue that learning (and advancing!) the art of beautifully typesetting a thesis is a crucial part of getting a PhD.

Here are some practical recommendations, examples, and useful starting points.

Most PhD authors in the Computer Laboratory prefer LaTeX as their typesetting system (under both Linux or Windows), mainly because of its

• excellent and yet unmatched support for mathematical formulae;
• good support for managing bibliographic references;
• good support for high-quality typography;
• easy integration with software-engineering tools (make, revision control, etc.);
• very safe and robust handling of large documents;
• long-term stability;
• comprehensive free tool support.

A common approach is to use the report style, with a suitable title page added, margins changed to make good use of the A4 format, and various other changes to suit submission requirements and individual tastes (e.g., other fonts).

For preparing publication-quality diagrams, some of the most powerful and popular tools used include:

• PGF/TikZ – the probably most sophisticated drawing package for LaTeX
• matplotlib – Matlab-style function plotting in Python

Official requirements

There used to be detailed Student Registry PhD format requirements , regarding font sizes and line spacing, but most Degree Committees have dropped these, recognizing that they were mainly motivated by past typewriter conventions. The rules left are now mainly about the word count .

In particular, it is no longer necessary for dissertations to be printed single sided or in “one-and-a-half spaced type”. If you still like to increase the line spacing, for easier proofreading, you can achieve this in LaTeX by placing into the preamble the line “ \usepackage{setspace}\onehalfspacing ”.

Recommendations

One Cambridge thesis-binding company, J.S. Wilson & Son , recommend on their web page to leave 30 mm margin on the spine and 20 mm on the other three sides of the A4 pages sent to them. About a centimetre of the left margin is lost when the binder stitches the pages together.

Write your thesis title and section headings in “sentence case”, that is use the same capitalization that you would have used in normal sentences (capitalize only the first word, proper nouns and abbreviations). Avoid the US-style “title case” that some conference-proceedings publishers require.

• Sentence case is normal typographic practice in the UK (see any UK-published newspaper, magazine, journals such as Nature , etc.).
• The catalogues of both the University Library thesis collection and our departmental Technical Report series record titles this way, and you don't want the cataloguers mess with your title capitalization when your thesis finally reaches them.
• It preserves useful information about the correct capitalization of any names or technical terms used.

Page numbers

Use a single page-number sequence for all pages in your thesis, i.e. do not use a separate sequence of Roman numerals for front-matter (title page, abstract, acknowledgements, table of contents, table of figure). In LaTeX that means using the report style, not the book style.

• PDF viewers number pages continuously starting from 1, and using anything else as printed page numbers causes confusion.
• This will save you some reformatting when submitting your thesis as a techreport .

Bibliographic references

If you use purely-numeric bibliographic references, do not forget to still mention authors’ surnames, as a courtesy to both the authors and your readers. Also, try to add the exact page number on which the quoted point is found in the reference; LaTeX supports this really well. (“suggested by Crowcroft and Kuhn [42,p107]”)

Technical Report submission

After a thesis has been approved by the examiners, the author normally submits it for publication as a Computer Laboratory Technical Report .

It is a good idea to read early on the submission guidelines for technical reports , as this may reduce the need to change the formatting later.

If you want to minimize any changes needed between your submitted thesis and the corresponding technical report version, then – in addition to applying all the above advice – you can

• make page 1 the title page,
• make page 2 the required declaration of originality,
• make page 3 the summary, and
• choose a layout suitable for double-sided printing (required for techreport, since 2010 also allowed for final PhD submission).

This way, there is a very high chance that turning your thesis into a techreport could be as simple as replacing pages 1 and 2 with the standard Technical Report title page (which the techreport editor can do for you).

More information

• The Computer Laboratory house style page explains where to find the University identifier that many put on the title page of their thesis.
• Markus Kuhn’s simple PhD thesis template ( snapshot ) is just one possible starting point.
• The cam-thesis LaTeX class is a collaborative effort to maintain a Cambridge PhD thesis template for Computer Laboratory research students, initiated by Jean Martina, Rok Strniša, and Matej Urbas.
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USCthesis - a LaTeX style for theses and dissertations at USC

USCthesis provides a LaTeX style package for writing your thesis, dissertation, or thesis proposal at the University of Southern California (USC), based on the USC Graduate School Thesis and Dissertation Formatting Guidelines.

A public git repository is at https://github.com/cardi/USCthesis

Updated to the latest formatting guidelines.

This style has floated around and evolved informally across students and departments. See the other templates that exist for other versions.

See paper.tex and paper.pdf for an example thesis.

Use make to compile the paper. Requires latexmk .

The full changelog can be found inside USCthesis.sty .

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Beamer template for thesis presentation [closed]

I am planning to submit my Ph.D. thesis shortly (and thanks to this site and in particular to all those who have helped on my latex). I have considered using the beamer-torino template https://blog.barisione.org/2007/09/18/torino-a-pretty-theme-for-latex-beamer/ for my thesis seminar presentation.

I was hoping someone would know a better template for my use. Thanks in advance!

Edits: I tried with this template https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/thesis-presentation-template-beamer-english-version-dpt-of-computer-engineering-technological-educational-institute-of-peloponnese/vwhtyshhtqmg .

The codes of the above template: 1st tex file --

\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e} \ProvidesPackage{TeiPel_En_Beamer_Layout}[22/06/2017 TeiPel Beamer Layout Package (English version)] \usepackage{xstring} \usepackage{calculator} \usepackage{ragged2e} \edef\teilogoeps{gu-logo.JPG} \edef\teilogopng{GUlogo.png} \newcommand{\setTeipelLayout}[1]{ > \usetheme{Antibes} \IfSubStr{#1}{newlogo}% > {% > \definecolor{teipel_red}{RGB}{85, 85, 57} > \edef\teilogoeps{teipel_new_logo.eps} > \edef\teilogopng{teipel_new_logo.eps} > }% > {% > \definecolor{teipel_red}{RGB}{190,65,65} > \edef\teilogoeps{gu-logo.JPG} > \edef\teilogopng{GUlogo.png} > } > % set colors > \setbeamercolor{alerted text}{fg=red} > \setbeamercolor{background canvas}{bg=teipel_red!10} > \setbeamercolor{block body alerted}{bg=white, fg=red} > \setbeamercolor{block body}{bg=orange!40} > \setbeamercolor{block body example}{fg=teipel_red!60!black, bg=gray!30} > \setbeamercolor{block title alerted}{fg=white, bg=red} > \setbeamercolor{block title}{bg=teipel_red} > \setbeamercolor{block title example}{bg=teipel_red!70!black,fg=white} > \setbeamercolor{fine separation line}{} > \setbeamercolor{frametitle}{fg=white} > \setbeamercolor{item projected}{fg=white} > \setbeamercolor{normal text}{bg=teipel_red!60,fg=teipel_red!60!black} > \setbeamercolor{palette sidebar primary}{use=normal text,fg=normal text.fg} > \setbeamercolor{palette sidebar quaternary}{use=structure,fg=structure.fg} > \setbeamercolor{palette sidebar secondary}{use=structure,fg=structure.fg} > \setbeamercolor{palette sidebar tertiary}{use=normal text,fg=normal text.fg} > \setbeamercolor{section in sidebar}{fg=brown} > \setbeamercolor{section in sidebar shaded}{fg=gray} > \setbeamercolor{section in toc}{fg=normal text.fg, bg=normal text.bg} > \setbeamercolor{separation line}{} > \setbeamercolor{sidebar}{bg=red} > \setbeamercolor{sidebar}{parent=palette primary} > \setbeamercolor{structure}{bg=teipel_red, fg=teipel_red} > \setbeamercolor{subsection in sidebar}{fg=brown} > \setbeamercolor{subsection in sidebar shaded}{fg=gray} > \setbeamercolor{subsection in toc}{fg=normal text.fg, bg=normal text.bg} > \setbeamercolor{title}{fg=white} > \setbeamercolor{titlelike}{fg=brown} > \setbeamercolor{itemize item}{fg=teipel_red} > %\setbeamercolor*{bibliography entry title}{fg=black} > %\setbeamercolor*{bibliography entry author}{fg=black} > \setbeamercolor*{bibliography entry location}{fg=teipel_red} > \setbeamercolor*{bibliography entry note}{fg=black} > % remove beamer's navigation bar > \setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{} > % Comment to completely cover next transparencies %% > \setbeamercovered{transparent=30} > % Table of contents before each Section > \AtBeginSubsection[]{ > \frame{ > \frametitle{Contents} > \tableofcontents[currentsection,currentsubsection] > } > } > % Add draft watermark > \IfSubStr{#1}{draft}% > {% > \usepackage{tikz}% > \setbeamertemplate{background}{% > \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture, overlay] > \node[rotate=90, anchor=west, xshift=15pt, yshift=-10pt] at (current page.south west){\textcolor{gray!60}{\emph{Watermark}}};% > \end{tikzpicture}% > }% > }{} } \newcommand{\supervisor}[3]{ > \subtitle{\textsc{A Thesis}} > \logo{\begin{tabular}{c} \includegraphics[height=0.7cm,keepaspectratio]{logo.png} \ \color{teipel_red}\scalebox{1.7}{\insertframenumber/\inserttotalframenumber} \end{tabular}} > \institute{Department of Mathematics\ \textsc{University of X} \[5pt]{\includegraphics[height=2cm,keepaspectratio]{logo}}\[5pt] \scalebox{0.9}{#1: #2, #3}} } \newcommand{\presentationDate}[1]{ > \date{\tiny{#1}} } \newcommand{\typesetFrontSlides}{ > \begin{frame}[plain] > \titlepage > \end{frame} > \begin{frame}[plain]{Contents} > \tableofcontents > \end{frame} }

% format multiple author names in title page \makeatletter > \long\def\beamer@author[#1]#2{% > \def\insertauthor{\def\inst{\beamer@insttitle}% > \def\and{\beamer@andtitle}% > \noexpandarg\StrCount{#2}{\and}[\numberofauthorsminusone]% > \ADD{1}{\numberofauthorsminusone}{\numberofauthors}% > \DIVIDE{1}{\numberofauthors}{\columnwidthfactor}% > \renewcommand\and{\column{\columnwidthfactor\textwidth}\centering}% > \begin{columns}[t,onlytextwidth]% > \column{\columnwidthfactor\textwidth}\centering% > #2% > \end{columns}% > }% > \def\beamer@shortauthor{#1}% > \ifbeamer@autopdfinfo% > \def\beamer@andstripped{}% > \beamer@stripands#1 \and\relax > {\let\inst=@gobble\let\thanks=@gobble% > \def\and{, }\hypersetup{pdfauthor={\beamer@andstripped}}} > \fi% } \makeatother \endinput

2nd tex file --

\PassOptionsToPackage{unicode}{hyperref} \PassOptionsToPackage{naturalnames}{hyperref} \documentclass{beamer} \usepackage{kmath,kerkis} \usepackage{color} \usepackage{amsmath,amsfonts,amssymb} \usepackage{epstopdf} \usepackage{graphicx} \graphicspath{{./images/}} \usepackage{TeiPel_En_Beamer_Layout} \setTeipelLayout{draft,newlogo}% options: "draft", "newlogo" \title[Short title]{Title} \author[F. Name]{Full Name} \supervisor{Supervisor}{Name}{Professor} \presentationDate{December 12, 2020}

\begin{document} % typeset front slides > \typesetFrontSlides

\section{Chapter 1: Introduction} \begin{frame} Some texts. \end{frame} \end{document}

But I found (after spending quite a while changing the logos, watermarks, etc.) that there is no definition/theorem numbering, which I prefer it to be there. I tried the suggestions given here Theorem Numbering in beamer but could not get the desired change. I even tried a \newtheorem{thm}{Theorem}[section] but failed to get the numbering in the theorems (and definitions etc.).

I like this template and would like to use this if someone help me sort out the Theorem/Definition numbering. Thanks!

• Beamer is for presentations. Are you looking for a template for the viva/defence or for the thesis itself? –  Elad Den Commented Dec 22, 2020 at 10:39
• 1 for the viva/defence –  mark haokip Commented Dec 23, 2020 at 9:45
• Without an example of your code we are not able to help you. Have a look to tex.stackexchange.com/questions/45817/… –  scd Commented Dec 23, 2020 at 16:01
• @SergioCavero I added the codes to the template I mentioned. I will be glad if you could find time to look into it. Thanks! –  mark haokip Commented Dec 23, 2020 at 18:48
• Connecting related: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/5828/… –  hola Commented May 10, 2021 at 0:45

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You may like metropolis or blackboard (see SamCarter's blackboard here ) or power-point based themes . Also have a peek at the beamer theme matrix or another beamer theme matrix . As fellow Sergio Cavero said, this site is not suitable for this kind of open-ended/opinion-based question. If you have a specific question on styles, you can ask it here.

• 1 @markhaokip Also, good luck for your PhD. I would encourage you to make the source code for your thesis/presentation public (not with the actual material, just as a template). –  hola Commented Dec 23, 2020 at 20:18
• Thanks. This will get me going! –  mark haokip Commented Dec 24, 2020 at 11:42

Firstly, I think that the question is too open and is out of context for this forum.

Secondly, have you not been given a rule of style and form of presentation from your doctoral school?

Thirdly, visit this website: Overleaf templates , it would be useful for you. The best template is the one you feel most comfortable with.

Finally, good luck in this final step, I wish you the best.

• well, thank you! –  mark haokip Commented Dec 23, 2020 at 10:12

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Template for latex phd thesis title page.

Often universities provide official LaTeX templates for PhD theses. If your university doesn’t, here is a template. The template includes the most common elements of a thesis title page:

• University’s or institute’s logo
• Thesis title
• Author’s name
• Degree the thesis is submitted for
• Submission date

A few remarks

The template may have to be adapted, as it most likely won’t fulfil your university’s or institute’s official thesis guidelines.

If the official guidelines do not explicitly state it, do not use more than two different font sizes. In the template, I used the same font size throughout the title page ( \Large ).

To center content of the title page and still use twoside -margins for the thesis, use the geometry package :

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13. May 2014 at 19:21

Tom, do you know how I can make the page numbers in an index to be hyperlinks please? I haven’t found any way of doing it online.

14. May 2014 at 7:35

Just use the linktoc=all option when you load the hyperref package .

14. May 2014 at 11:07

I’ve tried it but it didn’t work, FYI this is the relevant part of my file header –

There is no change at all in the index page, unfortunately! 🙁

14. May 2014 at 11:18

You load the hyperref package twice with different options. Use this instead:

Also, hyperref has to be the last package loaded ( exceptions ).

Finally, always typeset twice for changes to appear in the TOC.

14. May 2014 at 11:22

sorted by using

14. May 2014 at 11:26

Great to hear, thanks!

19. May 2014 at 9:44

Hello Tom, I like how your template looks so clean and simple. Do you think it is wise to use the “titlepage” environment for a title? It is used in the Wikibook about LaTeX ( https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Title_Creation ).

19. May 2014 at 10:28

Thanks for the positive feedback! Personally, I’ve never used the titlepage environment, \maketitle has done the job so far. You may want to take a look at the discussion on the topic here to decide what’s your best choice…

3. September 2014 at 9:55

I have really liked the templete. Can you please tell me where should I put the logo if I also want to mention the name of the university in the title page?

5. September 2014 at 2:59

Personally, I’d place the university name right before the year and keep the logo on top. There might be guidelines of your school defining the order.

11. September 2014 at 2:50

Hi Tom, Thanks for the template! It seems that newgeometry does not work with version 4 of the geometry package. Is there another possibility to get the twoside margins?

12. September 2014 at 4:25

Interesting question. You could either update your version of geometry, \newgeometry was introduced in version 5, or use the gmeometric package instead.

18. September 2014 at 15:49

Nice, simple, clean template. Thanks for sharing. Unfortunately, when I use this, it adds page numbers (which I do not want) and also includes a blank first page.

I have to use this as my preamble.

If I do not comment out the first line, it does no compile

How can I remove the page numbers and the blank first page.

20. September 2014 at 16:36

To switch pages number off, use:

5. February 2015 at 17:51

Hi Tom Is it possible to have two logos side by side on the cover page (joint phd and both univversities’ logos must appear). Any idea how I can implement this?

14. February 2015 at 5:50

Hi Michael,

Try the minipage environment as shown below. If this doesn’t work, please provide a minimal working example. Thanks, Tom.

11. May 2015 at 18:45

Thanks Tom for the Template

10. August 2015 at 17:54

If the titlepage has different margin settings, which is quite often the case, i tend to recommend to include the titlepage as a standalone document with includepdf from pdfpages. A titlepage doesn’t change every few minutes and is quite static. Clompetely avoiding the newgeometry stuff.

11. August 2015 at 12:15

Thanks for your comment. I agree, that’s a neat way of keeping the titlepage separated from the rest of the document. Best, Tom.

8. May 2016 at 9:23

Sir Please tell me how to write 4 to 5 authors in title page of a report?

10. May 2016 at 10:58

You can use the author macro as shown in the minimal working example below.

10. May 2016 at 18:14

Depending on how you want your complete author section output, there might be better ways. In some cases, it is even more painless to do the titlepage by hand.

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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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