UCD Thesis/Dissertation Template

About

The following set of files are the components needed to write your thesis or dissertation using Latex for the University of California, Davis.

Originally based on the File for a general UC Dissertation / Thesis
Modfied specifically to the UCD thesis class by Shwaine shwaine@shwaine.com

2006 - More recent changes by Dylan Beaudette
2010 Clarification and posting to github by Alex Mandel tech@wildintellect.com
2011 E-filing tweak by Jason Moore
2014 Style updates to fit recent requirements (See the Changelog for more details)
2019 - some changes by Stephen Maples
2020 - additional changes by Rich Pauloo

Quickstart

git clone https://github.com/richpauloo/thesis.git
cd Github/thesis

pdflatex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode thesis.tex
biber thesis.tex
pdflatex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode thesis.tex

Note that thesis.tex lines 14 and 15 are used to compile the draft (much faster) and final (much slower) versions.

\documentclass[11pt,oneside,draft]{ucdthesis} 
%\documentclass[11pt,oneside,final]{ucdthesis}

How to write your thesis

Download Source (button above)
Using your favorite Latex Editor
- Edit the Chapter files, add more if you need (also add reference in the thesis.tex)
- Edit the Abstract and Title matter documents
Build your latex document using pdflatex
- Run pdflatex thesis.tex (rerun if the table of contents isn't updating)
- Run bibtex thesis.tex (important that the engine is biber, and rerun when you change refs)
- Run pdflatex thesis.tex
To get a bibliography you need to run bibtex on your main document.
- If you have bibliographies per chapter you also need to run bibtex per chapter
- After running bibtex on everything rerun pdflatex
There are many optional sections: use the % character to toggle commenting out parts you don't need.
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Preface