- Based on the %%% OXFORD THESIS TEMPLATE %%%
- Originally by Keith A. Gillow ([email protected]), 1997
- Modified by Sam Evans ([email protected]), 2007
- Modified by John McManigle ([email protected]), 2015
- Modified by Steffen Remus ([email protected]), 2023-2024
Use this template to produce a standard thesis that meets the University requirements for DPhil submission, and should be passable for other thesis-based degrees (e.g. MPhil) as well.
In modern LaTeX implementations, you should be able to open main.tex with your favorite editor and compile it. By default, this template uses biber/BibLaTeX for references / citations, so you may have to make the appropriate changes in your build preferences.
Make a full build using latexmk by simply typing
$> latexmk
or more explicit:
$> latexmk -pdf -bibtex
(see latexmkrc for reference). Run
$> latexmk -c
or more explicit:
$> latexmk -pdf -bibtex -c
to clean temporary output files. Use a capital -C to clean generated pdf files too.
A non latexmk typical manual full build is:
$> pdflatex main.tex$> biber main$> pdflatex main.tex$> pdflatex main.tex
Using the Makefile, you can run the default target to build pdf files from all .tex files in the root directory:
$> make
or run
$> make bsc
$> make msc
$> make main
to build either 'main-bsc.tex', 'main-msc.tex', or 'main.tex'.
Run
$> make clean
or
$> make cleanall
to clean temporary output files. The target 'cleanall' removes additionally the generated pdf files.
Run
$> make authors
or
$> make authors-first
to print a list of authors extracted from your *.bib files in the ./bib/ directory. The target 'authors-first' extracts a list of first authors.
There should be subfolders called 'text' and 'figures'. Keep all your work in these folders. This will make your life much simpler when you need to go about deleting files creating while compiling while not deleting your actual thesis.
Make a new .tex file for each chapter and appendix, and place them in the 'text' folder. If you'll have a figure-intensive thesis, subfolders in 'figures' is a good idea. Use PDF graphics if at all possible.
The LaTeX cheat sheet is your friend. Google it. http://tex.stackexchange.com has lots of answers to common LaTeX problems.
High-level details on what this template provides can be found at: http://www.oxfordechoes.com/oxford-thesis-template/ https://github.com/mcmanigle/OxThesis https://github.com/uhh-lt/uhhltthesis