An improved version of CU Boulder's original LaTeX thesis template. Updated to match the latest graduate school requirements, this template also includes a variety of other small improvements and capabilities as compared with the original. A few notable improvements include:
- The base
thesis.tex
file now references lots of useful packages. - Italics are used instead of boldface to emphasize text (i.e., for the
\emph{}
command). I confirmed with the graduate school that the instructions, which require boldface, are out of date. - Typesetting of footnotes is improved.
- Added
\introductoryPage
,\titlePageTitle
, and\thesisDirectedBy
commands.
See the changelog in thesis.cls
for more details.
I submitted my physics PhD dissertation to the graduate school using this template in May 2023.
To use this template, clone or download this entire repository. Your starting point for editing is the thesis.tex
file. You need to keep thesis.cls
around, too, but you don't need to edit that file.
- Set the title of your thesis and other details in the "PREAMBLE" section of
thesis.tex
. - Each chapter has its own folder and
.tex
file. To add a new chapter, createchapter-3/chapter.3.tex
and add it to the list of included chapters in the "CHAPTERS" section ofthesis.tex
- The same goes for appendices.
- By default, it's expected that you'll manage your bibliography using BibTeX in the
bibliography.bib
file. Check out "BIBLIOGRAPHY SETUP" inthesis.tex
to customize this or to reference other.bib
files. - If you organize your figures into folders, you must reference them using their full path relative to the root of the repository. For example, a figure that lives in the
chapter-1
folder should be references aschapter-1/fig.pdf
, otherwise LaTeX won’t find it. - If you have custom LaTeX command definitions to include, throw those in
macros.tex
.
See the thesis.pdf
file for more tips on writing TeX in this template.