(Unofficial) La Trobe PhD Thesis LaTeX Template

Are you pursuing a PhD at La Trobe University? Are you looking for a LaTeX thesis template? I had the same problem. To my knowledge, GRS does not offer a LaTeX template yet. I started writing my thesis using the classicthesis thesis template by André Miede. That worked well, but I had to customize and extend the template to comply with our formatting guidelines. And that is how we end up here. This is what I have finally come up with. Let's call it the (unofficial) La Trobe PhD Thesis Template. Feel free to use it!

Organization

thesis.tex is the root document and includes the individual chapters. The content of the chapters can be found under text/. It is pretty self-explaining. Figures should be placed under figures/. Bibliography should be put into library.bib.

Configuration

You should replace the configuration at the top of thesis.tex with your actual information. That's it!

% Thesis and submission:
\newcommand{\myTitle}{Using Thinking Machines to Alleviate our Dependency on Guild Navigators}
\newcommand{\mySubmissionYear}{2018}
\newcommand{\mySubmissionMonth}{October}
\newcommand{\mySubmissionDay}{31}

% Regarding yourself:
\newcommand{\myFirstName}{Feyd-Rautha}
\newcommand{\myLastName}{Harkonnen}
\newcommand{\myWebsite}{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feyd-Rautha}
\newcommand{\myBirthYear}{1965}
\newcommand{\myBirthMonth}{January}
\newcommand{\myBirthDay}{31}
\newcommand{\myBirthPlace}{Lankiveil}

% Primary supervisor:
\newcommand{\myProfTitle}{Prof.}
\newcommand{\myProfFirstName}{Piter}
\newcommand{\myProfLastName}{De Vries}
\newcommand{\myProfWebsite}{http://homepage.cs.latrobe.edu.au/pdevries}

% Co-supervisor:
\newcommand{\myOtherProfTitle}{Dr}
\newcommand{\myOtherProfFirstName}{Thufir}
\newcommand{\myOtherProfLastName}{Hawat}
\newcommand{\myOtherProfWebsite}{http://homepage.cs.latrobe.edu.au/hthufir}

% University related:
\newcommand{\myDepartment}{Department of Computer Science and Information Technology}
\newcommand{\myFaculty}{College of Science, Health and Engineering}
\newcommand{\mySchool}{School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences}
\newcommand{\myUni}{La Trobe University}

Build commands:

pdflatex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode thesis.tex
bibtex thesis.aux
pdflatex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode thesis.tex
pdflatex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode thesis.tex

(I am not kidding. You have to call the same command 3 times.)