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Tips and tools for writing your LaTeX thesis or dissertation in Overleaf, including templates, managing references , and getting started guides.

Managing References

BibTeX is a file format used for lists of references for LaTeX documents. Many citation management tools support the ability to export and import lists of references in .bib format. Some reference management tools can generate BibTeX files of your library or folders for use in your LaTeX documents.

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How to get started writing your thesis in LaTeX

Writing a thesis or dissertation in LaTeX can be challenging, but the end result is well worth it - nothing looks as good as a LaTeX-produced pdf, and for large documents it's a lot easier than fighting with formatting and cross-referencing in MS Word. Review this video from Overleaf to help you get started writing your thesis in LaTeX, using a standard thesis template from the Overleaf Gallery .

You can upload your own thesis template to the Overleaf Gallery if your university provides a set of LaTeX template files or you may find your university's thesis template already in the Overleaf Gallery.

This video assumes you've used LaTeX before and are familiar with the standard commands (see our other tutorial videos  if not), and focuses on how to work with a large project split over multiple files.

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Tips and tools for writing your LaTeX thesis or dissertation in  Overleaf, including templates, managing references , and getting started guides.

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BibTeX  is a file format used for lists of references for  LaTeX  documents. Many citation management tools support the ability to export and import lists of references in .bib format. Some reference management tools can generate  BibTeX  files of your library or folders for use in your  LaTeX  documents.

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How to get started writing your thesis in LaTeX

Writing a thesis or dissertation in LaTeX can be challenging, but the end result is well worth it - nothing looks as good as a LaTeX-produced pdf, and for large documents it's a lot easier than fighting with formatting and cross-referencing in MS Word. Review this video from Overleaf to help you get started writing your thesis in LaTeX, using a standard thesis template from the  Overleaf Gallery .

You can  upload your own thesis template to the Overleaf Gallery   if your university provides a set of LaTeX template files or you may find your university's thesis template already in the Overleaf Gallery.

This video assumes you've used LaTeX before and are familiar with the standard commands (see our other  tutorial videos   if not), and focuses on how to work with a large project split over multiple files.

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Bibliographies in LaTeX

In order to cite references, you first need to create a separate bibliography file ending with a .bib extension within your LaTeX project.  You can do that by clicking on the New File icon on the upper-left corner of the screen.

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Then, enter your file name. Note that the default file extension in LaTeX is .tex. Your bibliography file must end in .bib. Once you create your file, you can add references to it in the BibTeX format.

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If you use RefWorks to manage your references, you can export your references from RefWorks into the BibTeX format. To export your references from RefWorks, click on the Share  tab. Then, click on Export References  and select the BibTeX  option. You can import the references you exported from RefWorks into LaTeX as a .bib file.

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Exporting references from a database or Google Scholar

The easiest way to add references to your .bib file, other than exporting them from RefWorks, is to import or copy them directly from Google Scholar or from a database. To cite from Google Scholar, click on the cite  icon underneath the article, which is represented with a quotation sign. Select the option BibTeX  at the bottom of the pop-up screen. You will be directed to another page where you can copy the reference in the BibTeX format. Make sure to check that the relevant fields are entered correctly before copying the reference into your .bib file.

Note that Google Scholar does not include a DOI, which is often needed as part of your reference.

Some databases also provide the option to export a reference in the BibTeX format. The way to export a reference from a database can vary depending on the database being used.

Note: Not all databases allow you to export citation information in the BibTeX format. To work around this, use RefWorks to manage your references which you can then export in the BibTeX format. 

Entering references manually

When entering a reference to BibTeX, the fields that are required to be filled in for each citation will vary depending on the type of the work you are citing. The reference type is specified by using the @ symbol followed by the type. Regardless of the reference type, the first field to be entered in the reference is the label that you want to give to a particular reference. You will later be able to use this label to cite the reference in the main text of the document.

Below is an example of the fields you are required to enter for articles.

Here's another example illustrating the fields required for a Ph.D. thesis.

Visit the page on standard templates for BibTeX to see how other types of works can be included.

Citing in LaTeX

To begin citing sources within your LaTeX document, you can use the biblatex  package. Add  \usepackage { biblatex } to your preamble. Note that there are other packages that you could use for this, including the natbib  package, which is also a popular option.

There are a number of specifications you can enter to the \usepackage { biblatex } command. The first specification you should add within the  square brackets of the command is backend = biber . Biber provides the relevant information needed to implement the biblatex package.

You can also specify the style of your bibliography by using the style  parameter. For instance, style=authoryear  will print your references in the author-year format. Another common variant is style=authoryear-comp , which will only print the author's last name once, and not for the subsequent references. Visit the page on biblatex's citation styles for a full list.

Using biblatex, you can also determine what criteria should be used to sort your bibliography by specifying the sorting  parameter. For instance, sorting=nyt  will sort your bibliography by name, title, and year. The end result of specifying these parameters may look something like this:

To be able to cite the references from your bibliography, you will need to implement a command mapping your BibTeX file to your document. To do that, you can use the \addbibresource {..} command and add your file name in between the curly brackets.

There are many options to call and format your in-text citations in LaTeX. Below is a list of common commands you can use with the corresponding output. For instance, the command \parencite {JonesandSmith1997} will result in (Jones and Smith 1997) in the pdf.   

Adding the \printbibliography command at the end of the document will instruct LaTeX to print your references.

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Writing a thesis in latex.

Writing a thesis is a time-intensive endeavor. Fortunately, using LaTeX, you can focus on the content rather than the formatting of your thesis. The following article summarizes the most important aspects of writing a thesis in LaTeX, providing you with a document skeleton (at the end) and lots of additional tips and tricks.

Document class

The first choice in most cases will be the report document class:

See here for a complete list of options. Personally, I use draft a lot. It replaces figures with a box of the size of the figure. It saves you time generating the document. Furthermore, it will highlight justification and hyphenation errors ( Overfull \hbox ).

Check with your college or university. They may have an official or unofficial template/class-file to be used for writing a thesis.

Again, follow the instructions of your institution if there are any. Otherwise, LaTeX provides a few basic command for the creation of a title page.

maketitle

Use \today as \date argument to automatically generate the current date. Leave it empty in case you don’t want the date to be printed. As shown in the example, the author command can be extended to print several lines.

For a more sophisticated title page, the titlespages package has a nice collection of pre-formatted front pages. For different affiliations use the authblk package, see here for some examples.

Contents (toc/lof/lot)

Nothing special here.

The tocloft package offers great flexibility in formatting contents. See here for a selection of possibilities.

Often, the page numbers are changed to roman for this introductory part of the document and only later, for the actual content, arabic page numbering is used. This can be done by placing the following commands before and after the contents commands respectively.

LaTeX provides the abstract environment which will print “Abstract” centered as a title.

abstract

The actual content

The most important and extensive part is the content. I strongly suggest to split up every chapter into an individual file and load them in the main tex-file.

In thesis.tex:

In chapter1.tex:

This way, you can typeset single chapters or parts of the whole thesis only, by commenting out what you want to exclude. Remember, the document can only be generated from the main file (thesis.tex), since the individual chapters are missing a proper LaTeX document structure.

See here for a discussion on whether to use \input or \include .

Bibliography

The most convenient way is to use a bib-tex file that contains all your references. You can download bibtex items for articles, books, etc. from Google scholar or often directly from the journal websites.

Two packages are commonly used to personalize bibliographies, the newer biblatex and the natbib package, which has been around for many years. These packages offer great flexibility in customizing the look of a bibliography, depending on the preference in the field or the author.

Other commonly used packages

  • graphicx : Indispensable when working with figures/graphs.
  • subfig : Controlling arrangement of several figures (e.g. 2×2 matrix)
  • minitoc : Adds mini table of contents to every chapter
  • nomencl : Generate and format a nomenclature
  • listings : Source code printer for LaTeX
  • babel : Multilingual package for standard document classes
  • fancyhdr : Controlling header and footer
  • hyperref : Hypertext links for LaTeX
  • And many more

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I’m aware that this short post on writing a thesis only covers the very basics of a vast topic. However, it will help you getting started and focussing on the content of your thesis rather than the formatting of the document.

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8. June 2012 at 7:09

I would rather recommend a documentclass like memoir or scrreprt (from KOMA-Script), since they are much more flexible than report.

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8. June 2012 at 8:12

I agree, my experience with them is limited though. Thanks for the addendum. Here is the documentation: memoir , scrreprt (KOMA script)

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8. June 2012 at 8:02

Nice post Tom. I’m actually writing a two-part (or three) on Writing the PhD thesis: the tools . Feel free to comment, I hope to update it as I write my thesis, so any suggestions are welcome.

8. June 2012 at 8:05

Thanks for the link. I just saw your post and thought I should really check out git sometimes :-). Best, Tom.

8. June 2012 at 8:10

Yes, git is awesome. It can be a bit overwhelming with all the options and commands, but if you’re just working alone, and probably on several machines, then you can do everything effortlessly with few commands.

11. June 2012 at 2:15

That’s what has kept me so far. But I’ll definitely give it a try. Thanks!

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8. June 2012 at 8:08

What a great overview. Thank you, this will come handy… when I finally get myself to start writing that thesis 🙂

8. June 2012 at 14:12

Thanks and good luck with your thesis! Tom.

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9. June 2012 at 4:08

Hi, I can recommend two important packages: lineno.sty to insert linenumbers (really helpful in the debugging phase) and todonotes (allows you to insert todo-notes for things you still have to do.)

11. June 2012 at 0:48

Thanks Uwe! I wrote an article on both, lineno and todonotes . Here is the documentation: lineno and todonotes for more details.

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12. June 2012 at 15:51

Thanks for the post, i’m currently writing my master thesis 🙂

A small note: it seems that subfig is deprecated for the subcaption package: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Floats,_Figures_and_Captions#Subfloats

12. June 2012 at 16:05

Hey, thanks for the tip. Too bad they don’t say anything in the documentation apart from the fact that the packages are not compatible.

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1. August 2012 at 21:11

good thesis template can be also found here (free): http://enjobs.org/index.php/downloads2

including living headers, empty pages, two-sided with front and main matter as well as a complete structure

2. August 2012 at 11:03

Thanks for the link to the thesis template!

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15. November 2012 at 22:21

Hi Tom, I’m writing a report on spanish in LaTex, using emacs, auctex, aspell (~170pags. ~70 files included by now) and this blog is my savior every time because I’m quite new with all these.

The question: Is there anyway (other than \- in every occurrence) to define the correct hyphenation for accented words (non english characters like é)? I have three o four accented words, about the subject of my report, that occur near 100 times each, across several files, and the \hyphenation{} command can’t handle these.

20. November 2012 at 3:47

I was wondering what packages you load in your preamble. For a better hyphenation (and easier typing), you should use these packages:

See here for more details.

If this doesn’t help, please provide a minimal working example to illustrate the problem.

Thanks, Tom.

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Guide to BibTeX Type PhdThesis

BibTeX is a reference management tool that is commonly used in LaTeX documents. The “phdthesis” BibTeX type is used for PhD dissertations or theses. In this guide, we will explain the required and optional fields for the “phdthesis” BibTeX type.

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Required Fields

The “phdthesis” BibTeX type requires the following fields:

  • author : The author of the thesis.
  • title : The title of the thesis.
  • school : The name of the institution that awarded the degree.
  • year : The year the degree was awarded.

Optional Fields

In addition to the required fields, the “phdthesis” BibTeX type also has a number of optional fields that can be used to provide additional information. These fields include:

  • type : The type of the thesis, such as “PhD thesis” or “Master’s thesis”.
  • address : The location of the institution.
  • month : The month the thesis was submitted.
  • note : Any additional information about the thesis.

Here is an example of how to use the “phdthesis” BibTeX type:

In this example, the BibTeX entry defines a PhD thesis authored by John Smith titled “An Analysis of Example”. The degree was awarded in 2022 by the University of Example, and the thesis was submitted in June in Example City, CA. The type of the thesis is specified as “PhD thesis”, and a note is included that provides a URL for the thesis.

BibTeX phdthesis template

The phdthesis entry type is intended to be used for a PhD thesis.

Minimal template

Minimal template with required fields only for a BibTeX phdthesis entry.

Full template

Full template including required and optional fields for a BibTeX phdthesis entry.

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Footnote citation

This section discusses in detail implementation of the employed footnote citation scheme shown before . As a basis for footnote citations I used the script found here . The modified version of this script can be found in custom-numeric-comp.cbx (copy it to the directory of .tex file to be compiled). The original script uses biblatex macroses and defines citation commands \notefullcite and \superfullcite which print the reference number as normal-sized text in square brackets and as superscript, respectively, and additionally print complete citation information in footnotes:

As discussed , long reference information in footnotes can make footnote height quite large (relative to the page dimensions). Therefore I reduced amount of the footnote reference text by introduction of the new command \supershortnotecite working in the following way:

  • in the main text: if cited item has entry type article , the command prints in a footnote 1) short author list (up to 3 authors; see description of the biblatex options maxcitenames and maxnames ), 2) short (abbreviated) journal name, 3) volume, 4) pages, and 5) year;
  • in the main text: for non- article entry types \supershortnotecite prints full reference information in a footnote ;
  • in the bibliography: full reference information is printed for all entry types, because here occupied space is not so critical as in the main text, and some useful reference information like clickable doi's making access to the online version of the cited article very fast should definitely persist in the document.

This resulted in significant reduction of the space occupied by footnote citations (compare the next figure with the previous one):

As you see, for the article entry type printed in a footnote most space-consuming entry fields were removed ( title , doi ) or compressed ( journal , author ). Apart from the reduction of the footnote text size, the idea behind \supershortnotecite is that for the reader who is quite common with the literature in the scientific field the document (thesis) is written, author , journal , and year entry fields would be enough to recognize the cited article. For other reference types full information is kept because i) they appear quite rare in the thesis, and ii) for example, for the book entry type author and year would be too little to identify type of the cited document, if other entry fields containing major information are missing.

Journal title abbreviations

Each bibliographic record of the article entry type has journal and shortjournal fields. The former is a standard BibTeX field of article entry type, the latter stores the abbreviated journal title and is not usually used by standard citation styles. Abbreviated titles were used in the main text to reduce the length of footnote text occupied by references, while full journal titles were printed in bibliography (at the end of thesis).

While collecting information on references, the question came up where journal abbreviations can be found, and it was quite surprising (at least, to me :) that for some journals there exists more than one abbreviation. This situation was encountered while looking for the abbreviation of a journal with attractive title "Ocean Dynamics". This journal is abbreviated as "Ocean Dynam" according to ISI Journal Citation Reports (JCR), or "Ocean Dyn." according to ISO . I have stayed with ISO abbreviation scheme particularly because JCR abbreviations were not available (at least I did not find) for some journals cited (like Complex Systems ). On the other hand, finding ISO abbreviations also required some effort. Many ISO abbreviations were found using CAS Source Index Search Tool (CASSI Tool), but unfortunately this tool has not all abbreviations I needed. By the way, CASSI Tool follows ISO 4:1997 standard ( Rules for the abbreviation of title words and titles of publications ) according to which journal titles are abbreviated on word-by-word basis omitting prepositions/conjunctions/etc., and one-word titles (like "Nature") are not abbreviated at all. Hence, for the abbreviation of a journal title unknown to CASSI Tool I have used this tool to find abbreviations of individual words forming the title which (words) can, and usually do, enter the titles of the journals CASSI Tool knows about.

Superscripts and punctuation

Let us go back to the \supershortnotecite command. An appearance of citations at the end of sentence or its part is a common situation, and the question arises yes, it does :) where to place \supershortnotecite , before or after the period (or comma) finishing the sentence (its part):

A short and useful discussion on this issue can be found here . The idea is that placing \supershortnotecite after the comma/period is more attractive optically but violates syntax because citation number usually supports the word (or phrase) after which it is located and should not be separated from this word using any punctuation. (Or just imagine if we switch footnote citation scheme to simple numerical (i.e., [1]), then it is straighforward to place reference number before period but not after it.) In my thesis I decided to use third solution, which combines two approaches shown above, and results in placing the citation number directly above the punctuation next to it:

For this purpose I have written a simple LaTeX script \sjcitep ( s hort j ournal cit ation with p unctuation):

Introduced \sjcitep takes punctuation character (parameter #1 ) and citation key (parameter #2 ) as input, prints punctuation, prints negative spacing ( \spc is set to 0.8 negative length of the punctuation character) after it, and execute citation script \supershortnotecite . Here is the text from LaTeX input document used to produce example above:

The first argument [,] of \sjcitep is in square brackets, and therefore optional. Hence, if you want to cite a reference without any punctuation next to it, just use \sjcitep { bib_key } . On the other hand, this leads to the problem of a possible mistyping the punctuation (i.e., \sjcitep { Wolfram1986 } . instead of \sjcitep [.] { Wolfram1986 } ) which I have experienced right after the script was introduced. This problem was solved by regular use of search/replace functionality of WinEdt in combination with regular expressions .

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How to Write a Thesis in LaTeX (Part 1): Basic Structure

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5

Author: Josh Cassidy (August 2013)

This five-part series of articles uses a combination of video and textual descriptions to teach the basics of writing a thesis using LaTeX. These tutorials were first published on the original ShareLateX blog site during August 2013; consequently, today's editor interface (Overleaf) has changed considerably due to the development of ShareLaTeX and the subsequent merger of ShareLaTeX and Overleaf. However, much of the content is still relevant and teaches you some basic LaTeX—skills and expertise that will apply across all platforms.

Your thesis could be the longest and most complicated document you'll ever write, which is why it's such a good idea to use L a T e X instead of a common word processor. L a T e X makes tasks that are difficult and awkward in word processors, far simpler.

When writing something like a thesis its worth splitting up the document into multiple .tex files. It's also wise to organise the project using folders; therefore, we'll create two new folders, one for all the images used in the project and one for all the .tex files making up the main body of the thesis.

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  • 1 The preamble
  • 2 The frontmatter
  • 3 The main body
  • 4 The endmatter
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The preamble

In this example, the main.tex file is the root document and is the .tex file that will draw the whole document together. The first thing we need to choose is a document class. The article class isn't designed for writing long documents (such as a thesis) so we'll choose the report class, but we could also choose the book class.

We can also change the font size by adding square brackets into the \documentclass command and specifying the size—we'll choose 12pt. Let's also prepare the document for images by loading the graphicx package. We'll also need to tell L a T e X where to look for the images using the \graphicspath command, as we're storing them in a separate folder.

The start of our preamble now looks like this:

Now we can finish off the preamble by filling in the title, author and date information. To create the simplest title page we can add the thesis title, institution name and institution logo all into the \title command; for example:

This isn't the best way to alter the title page so we'll look at more elaborate ways of customising title pages later on in the series, but this will suffice for now.

This is what the \maketitle command now produces for us:

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The frontmatter

After the title page we need to add in an abstract, dedication, declaration and acknowledgements section. We can add each of these in on separate pages using unnumbered chapters. To do this we use the \chapter command and add an asterisk. After these sections we'll add a table of contents using the \tableofcontents command:

The main body

Now for the main body of the document. In this example we will add-in five chapters, one of which will be an introduction and another will be a conclusion. However, instead of just composing these chapters in the main .tex file, we'll create a separate .tex file for each chapter in the chapters folder. We can then fill in these chapters with text remembering to split them up into sections and subsections.

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Then to add these chapters into the document, we use the \input command in the root document. Remember to add in chapters/ before the file name so that L a T e X knows where to find it.

The endmatter

We will now add in an appendix at the end of the document. To do this we use the \appendix command to tell L a T e X that what follows are appendices. Again We'll write the appendix in a separate file and then input it.

If we now compile the document, all our chapters will be added to the document and the table of contents will be automatically generated.

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Now we have a basic structure for a thesis set up. In the next post I will show you how to change the page layout and add headers.

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  1. Referencing a Bachelor's Thesis

    LaTeX only offers @mastersthesis or @phdthesis, but no bachelor's thesis. I tried to keep the entry as @misc, but the university name doesn't appear. ... BibTeX, and LaTeX twice more to fully update all references and citation call-outs, and start creating and citing those entries of type @bachelorsthesis. :-) Happy (Bib)TeXing! Share. Improve ...

  2. How to Write a Thesis in LaTeX (Part 4): Bibliographies with ...

    The citation commands in biblatex also give us the option of adding a prenote and postnote in as arguments: a prenote is a word or phrase like "see" that is inserted at the start of the citation; a postnote is text you want inserted at the end of the citation. To add these notes in you uses two sets of square brackets in the citation command.

  3. Biblatex citation styles

    verbose Citation style that prints a full citation when the entry is cited for the first time and a short version afterwards. reading Citation style that goes with the bibliography style by the same name. Loads the authortitle style. There are other non-standard citation styles popular in different journals and thesis In Sciences:

  4. Guide to Writing Your Thesis in LaTeX

    Both the Bibliography and the List of References will be generated by the urithesis LaTeX class. All you need to do is add information about your sources to the references.bib file, which is a database containing all of the necessary information about the references, then cite the reference in your thesis using the \cite{} command.

  5. Bibliography management with bibtex

    together with the thebibliography block from before, this is what gets rendered into your PDF when you run a \(\mathrm{\LaTeX}\) processor (i.e. any of latex, pdflatex, xelatex or lualatex) on your source file:. Figure 1: Citing entries from a thebibliography list. Notice how each \bibitem is automatically numbered, and how \cite then inserts the corresponding numerical label.

  6. LibGuides: Overleaf for LaTeX Theses & Dissertations: Home

    BibTeX is a file format used for lists of references for LaTeX documents. Many citation management tools support the ability to export and import lists of references in .bib format. Some reference management tools can generate BibTeX files of your library or folders for use in your LaTeX documents. LaTeX on Wikibooks has a Bibliography ...

  7. LaTeX Theses and Dissertations

    BibTeX is a file format used for lists of references for LaTeX documents. Many citation management tools support the ability to export and import lists of references in .bib format. ... Writing a thesis or dissertation in LaTeX can be challenging, but the end result is well worth it - nothing looks as good as a LaTeX-produced pdf, and for large ...

  8. LibGuides: Overleaf

    To begin citing sources within your LaTeX document, you can use the biblatex package. Add \usepackage {biblatex} to your preamble. Note that there are other packages that you could use for this, including the natbib package, which is also a popular option.. There are a number of specifications you can enter to the \usepackage {biblatex} command. The first specification you should add within ...

  9. Guide to Writing Your Thesis in LaTeX: FAQ

    When using pdflatex to create a pdf version of the thesis, the hyperref package will do the following: create a pdf table of contents in the pdf document. all citations and references in the thesis will be hyperlinks that will go to the referenced equation, figure, bibliographic citation, etc…. the table of contents in the thesis will be ...

  10. Writing a thesis in LaTeX

    Writing a thesis is a time-intensive endeavor. Fortunately, using LaTeX, you can focus on the content rather than the formatting of your thesis. The following article summarizes the most important aspects of writing a thesis in LaTeX, providing you with a document skeleton (at the end) and lots of additional tips and tricks. Document class.

  11. Bibliography management in LaTeX

    Introduction. When it comes to bibliography-management packages, there are three main options in LaTeX: bibtex, natbib and biblatex. This article explains how to use the biblatex package, to manage and format the bibliography in a LaTeX document.biblatex is a modern option for processing bibliography information, provides an easier and more flexible interface and a better language localization ...

  12. Bibliography using Biblatex

    The detailed description of the biblatex commands is available in the package documentation. The two basic commands to enable biblatex and output citation list are. \usepackage{biblatex} % place in the document preamble \printbibliography % place in the document body where list of citations has to appear. While preparing the thesis I activated ...

  13. Guide to BibTeX Type PhdThesis

    In this example, the BibTeX entry defines a PhD thesis authored by John Smith titled "An Analysis of Example". The degree was awarded in 2022 by the University of Example, and the thesis was submitted in June in Example City, CA. The type of the thesis is specified as "PhD thesis", and a note is included that provides a URL for the thesis.

  14. How to get started writing your thesis in LaTeX

    Here we provide a guide to getting started on writing your thesis in LaTeX, using a standard template which is pre-loaded into Overleaf. We have a large number of thesis templates in our online library, and you can upload your own if your university provides a set of LaTeX template files. We'll assume you've used LaTeX before and so are ...

  15. BibTeX template: phdthesis

    BibTeX phdthesis template. The phdthesis entry type is intended to be used for a PhD thesis. Minimal template. Minimal template with required fields only for a BibTeX phdthesis entry.

  16. Footnote citation

    In my thesis I decided to use third solution, which combines two approaches shown above, and results in placing the citation number directly above the punctuation next to it: % superscript location above punctuation. For this purpose I have written a simple LaTeX script \sjcitep ( s hort j ournal cit ation with p unctuation):

  17. Advanced LaTeX Workshop

    This workshop provides a hands-on introduction to more advanced topics in LaTeX, including using beamer and BibTeX. Beamer provides an elegant way to create presentations and posters while taking advantage of the potential of LaTeX. BibTeX is a powerful, integrated citation system that is easy to use with LaTeX. Peer consultations and troublesho...

  18. How to Write a Thesis in LaTeX (Part 1): Basic Structure

    The preamble. In this example, the main.tex file is the root document and is the .tex file that will draw the whole document together. The first thing we need to choose is a document class. The article class isn't designed for writing long documents (such as a thesis) so we'll choose the report class, but we could also choose the book class.. We can also change the font size by adding square ...