A LaTeX / XeLaTeX / LuaLaTeX PhD thesis template for Cambridge University Engineering Department.
Author(s)
Krishna Kumar
Features
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.
Print / On-line version: Different layout and hyper-referencing styles
Pre-defined and custom fonts (Times / Fourier / Latin Modern) with math support
Supports system fonts (XeLaTeX)
Pre-defined and custom bibliography style support (authoryear / numbered / custom)
Custom page styles: 3 Different Header / Footer styles
Pre-defined and custom margin size
A separate abstract with thesis title and author name, along with the titlepage can be generated by passing the argument abstract to the document class.
Option to generate only specific chapters and references without the frontmatter and title page. Useful for review and corrections.
Draft mode: Draft water mark, timestamp, version numbering and line numbering
Add supervisor and/or advisor to your PhD thesis or MPhil report
a4paper (default as per the University guidelines) or a5paper: Paper size
11pt or 12pt: The University of Cambridge guidelines recommend using a minimum font size of 11pt (12pt is preferred) and 10pt for footnotes. This template also supports 10pt.
oneside or twoside (default): This is especially useful for printing double side (twoside) or single side.
print: Supports Print and Online Version with different page margins and hyperlink styles.
Use print in the options to activate Print Version with appropriate margins and page layout and view styles.
Leaving the options field blank will activate Online version.
custommargin: You can alter the margin dimension for both print and online version by using the keyword custommargin in the options. Then you can define the dimensions of the margin in the preamble.tex file:
\setFancyHdr should be called when using custom margins for proper header/footer dimensions
\ifsetMargin is deprecated, please use \ifsetCustomMargin instead.
index: Including this option builds the index, which is placed at the end of the thesis.
Instructions on how to use the index can be found here.
Note: the package makeidx is used to create the index.
abstract: This option enables only the thesis title page and the abstract with title and author to be printed.
chapter: This option enables only the specified chapter and it's references. Useful for review and corrections.
draft: The default draft mode supports some special features such as line numbers, images, and water mark with
timestamp and custom text. Position of the text can be modified in preamble.tex.
draftclassic: This mode is similar to the default draft mode in the book class. Images are not loaded.
lineno: Enables pagewise line numbering on the outer edge. You can switch-off line numbering by specifying nolineno in the options.
flushleft: The University recommends using ragged right or flush left alignment for texts. The reason behind this is left justifying a text may exclude a certain readers. Dyslexic people find it hard to read justified text. You can enable raggedright option in the document class by passing flushleft argument. Default is flush left and right.
Title page
The front page (title page) resizes to fit your title length. You can modify the options in thesis-info.tex.
\subtitle (optional): Adds a subtitle to your thesis.
\college (optional): This option adds the name of your college on the bottom left.
If \college is defined, the bottom of the title page will look like this:
King's College 2014
If \college is undefined or blank, the degreedate will be centered.
2014
The template offers support to having both the college and university crests or just one of the crests.
\collegeshield (optional): Includes college crest in addition to the university crest. This reformats the front page layout.
Abstract separate
A separate abstract with the title of the PhD and the candidate name has to be submitted to the Student Registry. This can be generated using abstract option in the document class. Ignore subsequent warnings about skipping sections (if any).
To generate the separate abstract and the title page, make sure the following commands are in the preamble section of thesis.tex file:
The chapter mode allows user to only print specific chapters along with references. By default, it excludes everything else in the front matter and appendices. This can done by using chapter option in the document class in thesis.tex. Ignore subsequent warnings about skipping sections (if any).
To generate the separate abstract and the title page, make sure the following commands are in the preamble section of thesis.tex file:
draft adds a watermark draft text with timestamp and version number at the top or
the bottom of the page. Pagewise line numbering is added on every page. draft settings can be tweaked in the preamble.tex.
Use draftclassic in the document class options to use the default book class draft mode.
To add figures in draft mode (default enabled), in the preamble set \setkeys{Gin}{draft=false}. draft=true disables figures
To change the watermark text
\SetDraftText{DRAFT}
To change the position of the watermark text. Default watermark position is top. The location can be changed to (top / bottom)
\SetDraftWMPosition{bottom}
To change the draft version. Default draft version is v1.0.
\SetDraftVersion{v1.1}
Watermark grayscale value can be modified. Text grayscale value (should be between 0-black and 1-white). Default value is 0.75
\SetDraftGrayScale{0.8}
Choosing the fonts
PhDThesisPSnPDF currently supports three fonts Times, Fourier and Latin Modern (default).
times: (The University of Cambridge guidelines recommend using Times). Specifying times option in the document class will use mathptpx or Times font with Math Support.
fourier: fourier font with math support
default (empty): When no font is specified, Latin Modern is used as the default font with Math Support.
customfont: Any custom font can be set in preamble by using customfont option in the document class. Then the custom font can be loaded in preamble.tex in the line:
PhDThesisPSnPDF currently supports two styles authoryear and numbered (default). Citation style has to be set. You can also specify custombib style and customise the bibliography.
authoryear: For author-year citation eg., Krishna (2013)
numbered: (Default Option) For numbered and sorted citation e.g., [1,5,2]
custombib: Define your own bibliography style in the preamble.tex file.
If you would like to use biblatex instead of natbib. Pass the option custombib in the documentclass. In the preamble.tex file, edit the custombib section. Make sure you don't load the natbib package and you can specify the layout of your references in thesis.tex in the reference section. If you are using biber as backend, run pdflatex thesis.tex >> biber thesis >> pdflatex thesis.tex >> biber thesis >> pdflatex thesis.tex. If you are using the default natbib package, don't worry about this.
Choosing the page style
PhDThesisPSnPDF defines 3 different page styles (header and footer). The following definition is for twoside layout. To choose a page style, include it in the documentclass options: \documentclass[PageStyleI]{PhDThesisPSnPDF}. Alternatively, page style can be changed by adding \pagestyle{PageStyleI} or \pagestyle{PageStyleII} in thesis.tex. Note: Using \pagestyle command will override documentclass options when used globally.
default (leave empty): For Page Numbers in Header (Left Even, Right Odd) and Chapter Name in Header (Right Even) and Section #. Section Name (Left Odd). Blank Footer.
PageStyleI: For Page Numbers in Header (Left Even, Right Odd) and Chapter Name next to the Page Number on Even Side (Left Even). Section Number and Section Name and Page Number in Header on Odd Side (Right Odd). Footer is empty. Layout:
PageStyleII: Chapter Name on Even Side (Left Even) in Header. Section Number and Section Name in Header on Odd Side (Right Odd). Page numbering in footer. Layout:
Uncomment the following lines in preamble.tex to force a figure to be displayed in a particular location. Use H when including graphics. Note H instead of h.
\usepackage{float}
\restylefloat{figure}
Bibliography with Author-Year Citation in preamble.tex:
Line spacing for the entire document can be specified in preamble.tex. Uncomment the line spacing you prefer. e.g.,
\onehalfspacing
Nomenclature definition
To use nomenclature in your chapters:
\nomenclature[g-pi]{$\pi$}{ $\simeq 3.14\ldots$}
The sort keys have prefix. In this case a prefix of g is used to denote Greek Symbols, followed by -pi or -sort_key. Use a - to separate sort key from the prefixes. The standard prefixes defined in this class are:
A or a: Roman Symbols
G or g: Greek Symbols
Z or z: Acronyms/Abbreviations
R or r: Superscripts
S or s: Subscripts
X or x: Other Symbols
You can change the Title of Nomenclature to Notations or Symbols in the preamble.tex using:
\renewcommand\nomname{Symbols}
TexStudio's default compile option doesn't include nomenclature, to compile your document with the nomenclature, do the following:
Options >> Configure TexStudio >> Build >> User Commands >> add user command
In add user command type makenomeclature:makenomenclature on the left pane and makeindex %.nlo -s nomencl.ist -o %.nls on the execution side. Now you can run the user defined command makenomenclature from Tools >> User >> makenomenclature.
Alternatively, you can use the compile-thesis-windows.bat file or run make on Unix / Linux / MacOS
To-do Notes
To include custom to-do notes in your pdf document use \mynote{Hey! I have a note} anywhere in your chapters. To activate this feature, you need to uncomment the following lines in preamble.tex. To-do notes will be available only in the draft or draftclassic and not in the final thesis.
You rarely want to commit changes to your TeX files which are not reflected in the PDF included in the repo.
You can automate this process, among other things, with a git hook.
Install the hook with make hooks (or see how to do it in ./hooks/install.sh).
Now every time you commit, if any files affecting your build have changed in this commit
and those changes are more recent than the last modification of thesis.pdf,
the default make target will be run and changes to thesis.pdf will be git added.
Currently, changes to any tex/pdf/eps/png/cls files are picked up.
This can be changed in ./hooks/pre-commit.
To restrict the length of the figure caption in List of figures use a [short-title] and {longtitle} for the caption or the section:
`\caption[Caption that you want to appear in TOC]{Actual caption of the figure}`
`\section[short]{title}`
To exclude sections from being numbered and disable it from appearing in the Table of Contents use \section*{Section_Name} or \chapter*{Chapter_Name}
To only exclude it from being listed in the Table of Contents encapsulate the section command inside the \tochide command. \tochide{\section{Section_Name}} the section will not appear in the Table of Contents, but the section will be numbered.
When including figures in your tex file, it's a good practice to size your picture depending on the page size, instead of using absolute values. In the following example 0.75\textwidth refers to picture width being set to 75% of the text width.
\includegraphics[width=0.75\textwidth]{minion}
Use a - to separate sort key from the prefixes, eg., g-pi denotes the Greek symbol pi.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q1: Where can I find the thesis formatting guidelines this class is based on?
Q4: How can I count the number of words in my thesis?
You can run the following command (Linux/Unix):
ps2ascii thesis.pdf | wc -w (eg., result 2713 words)
or
pdftotext thesis.pdf | wc thesis.txt -w (eg., result 2690 words)
or
texcount -inc *.tex (eg., result 2341 words)
Q5: How do I use a system font (libertine)?
To use a system font (open type) font with XeLaTeX, please select customfont option in the documentclass in thesis.tex. Add the path and font name to the custom font definition in preamble.tex
W1:I get the package Fancyhdr Warning: \fancyhead's E option without twoside option is useless on input line # or #. What should I do?
Nothing. The warning is because the twoside option is also defined in the class, although only the oneside option is currently used.
W2: I get the Class PhDThesisPSnPDF Warning: Unknown or non-standard option 'something'. Will see if I can load it from the book class. If you get a warning unused global option(s): something then the option is not supported! on input line #.
You are either trying to use a undefined option or a non-standard option which is in the book class but not defined in the PhD Thesis Template. If it can be used it will be loaded and you will get no further warnings. If not, the option you chose is unavailable.
W3: I get LaTeX Warning: Unused global option(s):[something].
You are trying to load an option that is not supported in the PhDThesisClass and the Book Class. Are you sure you are using the right option? Check your spelling!
W4: I get I'm skipping whatever remains of this command line # of file thesis.aux @input{Chapter1/chapter1.aux}
If you are generating a separate abstract for your thesis submission, ignore this warning and good luck with your submission. If you are compiling your thesis and see this warning, please remove the option abstract from the document class.
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