Guidelines for master and PhD disserations
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Introduction
Quick code references and guidelines for your master or PhD dissertations in LaTex.
See also here
Sources organization
It is a good practice to split your work into separate .tex files
for each component (abstract, chapters etc.) and use the \input{} statement
to include different sources in a main .tex file (e.g. thesis.tex),
\begin{document}
\input{frontpages.tex}
\input{abstract.tex}
\tableofcontents
\input{chapter1.tex}
\input{chapter2.tex}
...
...
\input{conclusions.tex}
\input{appendixA.tex}
\input{appendixB.tex}
...
\input{references.tex}
\listoftables
\listoffigures
\input{glossary.tex}
\input{acknowledgements.tex}
\end{document}
Documentclass
\documentclass[a4paper,10pt,openright]{book}
Frontpage(s)
Cover and first page for PhD thesis phd_thesis_cover.tex.gz
Abstract
LaTex article and report classes provide a built-in abstract environment,
\begin{abstract}
...
\end{abstract}
When using the book class you can use an unordered \chapter*{} statement indeed,
\chapter*{Abstract}
...
Table of contents
A table of contents is automatically generated by LaTex with a \tableofcontents statement.
\tableofcontents
Backmatter
Appendices, glossary and references close the thesis.
Appendices
Appendices are created with the \appendix command and work as any LaTex chapters,
with the possibility of using sections, subsections etc.
\appendix
% Appendix A
\chapter{Appendix A title}
\section{...}
...
...
\section{...}
...
...
% Appendix B
\chapter{Appendix B title}
...
...
Any new \chapter{} statement will result in a new appendix with a default
ordering A, B, C etc.
Glossary
Useful to collect the list of acronyms…
References (Bibliography)
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Bibliography_Management
Built-in environment: thebibliography
External tool: BibTeX (now BibLaTex) http://www.bibtex.org/