- Originally by Keith A. Gillow ([email protected]), 1997
- Modified by Sam Evans ([email protected]), 2007
- Modified by John McManigle ([email protected]), 2015
Use this template to produce a standard thesis that meets the Oxford 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 Oxford_Thesis.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. A typical "full build" should be:
pdflatex main.texbiber mainpdflatex main.texpdflatex main.tex
Alternatively, install latexmk and
execute: latexmk -pdf -synctex=1 main.tex.
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. StackExchange has lots of answers to common LaTeX problems.
High-level details on what this template provides can be found here.
