Simple Thesis LaTeX Template

This repository provides a customizable LaTeX template for writing a PhD thesis. It is designed to be clean and pre-configured with a curated set of LaTeX packages to handle typical requirements of a doctoral dissertation.

Features

• Clean title page, abstract, acknowledgments, and declaration pages
• Easily extendable structure: chapters, appendices, bibliography
• Includes commonly needed LaTeX packages

Included LaTeX Packages

Document and Layout

• inputenc – UTF-8 encoding support
• babel – Language localization (default: American English)
• fontenc – Proper font encoding (T1)
• fancyhdr – Custom headers and footers
• setspace – Line spacing adjustments
• xcolor – Support for custom colors
• titling, changepage, appendix, enumitem – Document organization and styling

Referencing and Hyperlinks

• hyperref – Clickable references and PDF metadata
• nameref – Named references for sections

Figures and Graphics

• graphicx – Image inclusion
• float – Enhanced float control
• epstopdf – EPS to PDF conversion
• subfig – Sub-figures within floats

Math and Symbols

• amsmath, amssymb, amsthm – Math environments and symbols
• bm – Bold math symbols
• bbold – Blackboard bold math symbols

Tables

• multirow – Multirow cells in tables
• longtable – Multipage tables
• tabularx – Tables with flexible column widths
• booktabs – High-quality table formatting

Algorithms and Code

• listings – Code formatting and syntax highlighting
• algorithm, algpseudocode – Algorithm and pseudocode environments

Styling

• lettrine – Drop capitals
• mdframed – Colored or styled boxes (with TikZ backend)
• url – URL formatting

Structure

phd-thesis-template/
├── main.tex             # Main thesis file
├── img/                 # Images and plots
├── biblio.bib           # BibTeX bibliography
├── mnthesis.cls         # Custom thesis class
└── LICENSE              # GPLv3 license

Getting Started

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/matnar/phd-thesis-latex.git
cd phd-thesis-latex

Compile the thesis:

pdflatex main.tex
bibtex main
pdflatex main.tex
pdflatex main.tex

Start editing the content inside main.tex.

License

This template is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPLv3). See the LICENSE file for details.

Contributions

This template has been originally designed for writing my personal PhD thesis.

At the time of writing, a few fully-fledged templates for thesis were available.

Feel free to fork, improve, and submit pull requests. Contributions and suggestions are welcome!