Vlado keselj last update the final thesis format is approved by the faculty of graduate studies office. Although this format is regularely maintained in effort to keep it up to date with the prescribed fgs guidelines, it is possible that additional corrections will be required. The students are responsible for ensuring that their final thesis conforms to the fgs regulations, especially since latex allows the author to override many aspects of the template within their own text. Hence, make sure that you have your thesis format checked by fgs before trying to submit the final copy of your thesis. this evaluation takes two business days. the fgs thesis regulations can be found at this template is provided as an example of something that fgs will accept. Students are welcome to make their thesis look as they want, whether by using their own template or by modifying this one, but always have your thesis format checked by fgs before trying to submit the final copy of your thesis. at an ad hoc committee meeting on jun 14, 2012, it was decided that a common dalhousie latex thesis template to be created. As a first step, here is the list of current latex thesis templates being used at the dalhousie university if you would like to add any more, please email vlado keselj at [email protected]: computer science: vlado/dalcsthesis/ math and stats: the latex template for cs thesis of the dalhousie univerisity is based on version 2.2 of the thesis template for theses in mathematics.

See instructions at w.mscs.dal.ca/ clyde/dalthesis or the basic simple.tex starter file to get started and for the regular bells and whistles. Declare your supervisor with a \supervisor<> statement and each reader with a \reader<> statement. If you have co supervisors, declare each of them with a separate \supervisor<> statement and the template will designate them as co supervisors.

The basic template allows you to not print out the front pages if you include a \nofront command in your file. You can omit specific parts with the following commands: \notitlepage, \nosignaturepage, \nopermissionpage \nodedicationpage, \notableofcontents, \nolistoftables, \nolistoffigures, or \nobib. The following ones are relevant to the faculty of computer science: \bcshon mdash bachelor of computer science honours thesis \bcshoncoop mdash bachelor of computer science honours thesis with co op \macs mdash master of applied computer science project report \mcs mdash master of computer science thesis \mec mdash master of electronic commerce thesis \mhi mdash master of health informatics thesis \phd mdash doctor of philosophy ph.d. Use one of these designations before your \frontmatter call and it will define the appropriate abbreviations for your thesis. If a required style file is not available, you can place their copies in the directory with your thesis. Basic files needed are: dalcsthesis.cls may be installed on the unix systems afterpage.sty installed on the unix systems, you will need it for local systems glossary.sty installed on the unix systems, you will need it for local systems simple.tex pdf. The rest of this page provides information on including different features in your thesis like a glossary, tables, or figures.

Taking a unix diff between simple.tex and the example will show you the items that change to use the given feature.

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fgs guidelines specify that the left side margin should be around 1.5 inches and other three margins approximately 1 inch. The thesis style file is designed to satisfy this requirement but, as clyde clements mentions in the math version of the thesis template, you may print the thesis generated by this template and get incorrect margins. Known reasons are you selected the wrong paper size when you converted the dvi file to postscript use the correct option for dvips. You generated a pdf file and then, as you printed from adobe acrobat, you had the fit to page option selected, which decreases the printed text by 93%. Unselect the fit to page option before printing once the dvi file is generated, this template is no longer in control. The version that was approved by graduate studies was generated to a postscript file and then printed directly to a printer with the lpr command.

The easiest way to tell if your margins are correct after printing is to measure where the page number appears at the bottom of a page. The template is designed to print it between 0.5 inches and 0.75 inches from the bottom of the page. If the margin is bigger than that then your method of printing the dvi file has shrunk the margins.

Although an effort is made to keep the template in accordance with the latest fgs regulations, it happens that a thesis using the template does not conform to some requirements. We greatly appreciate any reports about the corrections, and our first step is to list such issues in this subsection. Pdf/a format since the required electronic submission, the fgs regulations require that the pdf file is in pdf/a format, which is not produced by default by pdflatex and most other programs. Some conversion suggestions are offered at: issue with using the package: \usepackage when an appendix chapter consists entierly of a long, multi page code segment, the page immediatelly after the first chapter page is blank.

A quick solution is to redefine the \dal@chapter command in the following way: this should be done just before the first code appendix chapter. When using dotted leaders to separate entries from page number, ensure that at least three dots can fit between the end of your entry and the page number list of tables, list of figures, table of contents. One solution can be illustrated as follows: this is a trick to repeat the title for the short and long version, but we add . This makes the title in the table of contents longer, and makes sure that there are at least two dots in the dotted line, as required.

In table and figure captions, we can use the following style: instead of in the first case only the caption title will appear in the table of contents. If you absolutely need mixed case in the title like a chemistry person who might need nacl in the title with that casing then invoke the no parameter \mixedcasetitle command and you now control the case title. If you have any questions and comments please send e mail to vlado keselj [email protected] , or talk to him directly. To obtain the single space mode you need to specify the beginning tag as: instead of the usual the abstract should have no illustrations or footnotes, and it should be no longer than 150 words for a master's thesis, and not longer than 350 words for a phd thesis. This is not a strict requirement, but it is required by the catalogues: the amicus web on line catalogue and dissertations abstracts international database. The current fgs requirements 2011 04 require that a thesis is submitted in the pdf format, for the electronic submission, and it should be pdf/a compliant.

To obtain such format, it is recommended that you use pdflatex, instead of producing a dvi file and then a ps file. You can use epstopdf command in linux environment to convert an eps figure to pdf. For example, to convert a f.eps file to pdf, type epstopdf f.eps , and it will produce f.pdf file, usable as a figure by pdflatex. The subfigure package is used here to place more than one picture each with their own caption within one figure. Diff with simple.tex lt means a line was removed, gt means that a line was added: this example uses two sub packages: algorithm and algorithmic. The algorithms don't appear in any table of contents unless you enclose them in a figure environment.

Algorithm.tex pdf mdash latex file with an algorithm algorithm.sty mdash may need to install on your own system or the unix system. Diff with simple.tex lt means a line was removed, gt means that a line was added: the example theorems.tex pdf illustrates how we can write definitions, theorems, proofs, and other similar parts in latex. Diff with simple.tex lt means a line was removed, gt means that a line was added: for proofs and proof sketches you can also use the style package written by norbert zeh, nzproof.sty. The package requires the following other style files: amsmath.sty, amssymb.sty, amsfonts.sty, and ifthen.sty, which are likely already installed on the system. Diff with simple.tex lt means a line was removed, gt means that a line was added: this example creates a glossary. To create a glossary, you first latex the file, then issue the command: and finally latex the file once more. In a thesis, as well as in this example, the location of the glossary is dictated by the faculty of graduate studies: it must be between the abstract and the acknowledgements.

Glossary.tex pdf mdash latex file with a glossary glossary.sty mdash may need to install on your own system or the unix system. Diff with simple.tex lt means a line was removed, gt means that a line was added: the cs template arose out of the efforts of many people. Particular thanks go to the following contributors: clyde clements and steven matheson for providing the base template from which the cs template arose, mike mcallister for the main work on adaptation of the template, integration of the updates below, and producing this web page, and examples. Todd eavis, andrew rau chaplin, billy biggs, srini sampalli, and stuart macaskill for providing examples of how they adjusted the math template to adapt to the fgs regulations as they were getting their theses approved.

In particular, todd provided the foundation, algorithm, and figures of the bigger thesisexample sample thesis. Norbert zeh for looking over the finishing touches of the template and for providing a proof environment. Vlado keselj for some major latex hacking to address the fgs requirements that will go unnoticed by most non fgs people but that are some of the trickier details to integrate simply and seamlessly in the class file. Chances are, your institution will have pretty strict specifications for your thesis format. If you're lucky your institution may have a class file or some grad students may maintain a unofficial template.

Purdue university a state school in indiana, usa has a document class that may be a good starting point. An additional complication at purdue is that each department has additional constraints on the formatting so the document class takes an option to specify the department. Features include conforms to the student registry phd dissertation guidelines and cued phd guidelines supports latex, xelatex and lualatex adaptive title page: title page adapts to title length title page with both college and university crests. Option to generate only specific chapters and references without the frontmatter and title page. Draft mode: draft water mark, timestamp, version numbering and line numbering to see the corresponding video for this blog post click here. in this series of blog posts we’re going to teach you how to write a basic thesis using latex. 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 latex instead of a common word processor.