The MIT thesis template in LaTeX
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The current MIT thesis template was developed in 2023, using up-to-date LaTeX coding, to meet the current formatting requirements of the MIT Libraries. The title and abstract pages are automatically laid out from information provided by the user. This template includes options to use a variety of fonts, and it is compatible with either pdfTeX or unicode engines such as luaLaTeX. When using LaTeX formats dated November 2022 or later, the resulting pdf file meets the PDF/A-2b archivability standard. A standard TeX Live installation includes all other packages required by the template.
This template was written by John Lienhard at the request of the MIT Libraries.
- Documentation: Documentation for the template is available in pdf format here .
- Download: The most current LaTeX files for this template are distributed through the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN): https://ctan.org/pkg/mitthesis Download
- Overleaf.com: A copy of the thesis template is also present in Overleaf.com's template gallery, here . Overleaf includes all the packages in TeX Live, so no additional downloads are needed. Learn more about Overleaf at MIT .
Specifications for MIT theses
The formatting requirements for MIT theses are set by the MIT Libraries, as described at this url: http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/thesis-specs/ . Questions regarding these specifications should be directed to [email protected] .
The original LaTeX 2.09 template was written by Stephen Gildea in the late 1980s (also in CTAN, here ). That template was edited by many later students, leading to the files archived here.
LaTeX has changed greatly since the original MIT thesis template was written. LaTeX 2.09 was replaced by LaTeX2e in 1994. New engines were developed, particularly pdfTeX during the 1990s and Unicode-aware engines in the decades that followed. Many packages and fonts were developed to accompany the original platform, particularly after 2000; and major updates to the LaTeX kernel began in 2018. Over the years, the MIT Libraries have changed the required format several times, especially as electronic thesis submission has become the norm. The original template served MIT well; but by the early 2020s, it was substantially out of date. That situation motivated the creation of this new template.
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Writing a thesis or dissertation in LaTeX can be challenging, but the end result is well worth it - nothing looks as good as a LaTeX-produced pdf, and for large documents it's a lot easier than fighting with formatting and cross-referencing in MS Word. Review this video from Overleaf to help you get started writing your thesis in LaTeX, using a standard thesis template from the Overleaf Gallery .
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Writing a thesis is a time-intensive endeavor. Fortunately, using LaTeX, you can focus on the content rather than the formatting of your thesis. The following article summarizes the most important aspects of writing a thesis in LaTeX, providing you with a document skeleton (at the end) and lots of additional tips and tricks.
Document class
The first choice in most cases will be the report document class:
See here for a complete list of options. Personally, I use draft a lot. It replaces figures with a box of the size of the figure. It saves you time generating the document. Furthermore, it will highlight justification and hyphenation errors ( Overfull \hbox ).
Check with your college or university. They may have an official or unofficial template/class-file to be used for writing a thesis.
Again, follow the instructions of your institution if there are any. Otherwise, LaTeX provides a few basic command for the creation of a title page.
Use \today as \date argument to automatically generate the current date. Leave it empty in case you don’t want the date to be printed. As shown in the example, the author command can be extended to print several lines.
For a more sophisticated title page, the titlespages package has a nice collection of pre-formatted front pages. For different affiliations use the authblk package, see here for some examples.
Contents (toc/lof/lot)
Nothing special here.
The tocloft package offers great flexibility in formatting contents. See here for a selection of possibilities.
Often, the page numbers are changed to roman for this introductory part of the document and only later, for the actual content, arabic page numbering is used. This can be done by placing the following commands before and after the contents commands respectively.
LaTeX provides the abstract environment which will print “Abstract” centered as a title.
The actual content
The most important and extensive part is the content. I strongly suggest to split up every chapter into an individual file and load them in the main tex-file.
In thesis.tex:
In chapter1.tex:
This way, you can typeset single chapters or parts of the whole thesis only, by commenting out what you want to exclude. Remember, the document can only be generated from the main file (thesis.tex), since the individual chapters are missing a proper LaTeX document structure.
See here for a discussion on whether to use \input or \include .
Bibliography
The most convenient way is to use a bib-tex file that contains all your references. You can download bibtex items for articles, books, etc. from Google scholar or often directly from the journal websites.
Two packages are commonly used to personalize bibliographies, the newer biblatex and the natbib package, which has been around for many years. These packages offer great flexibility in customizing the look of a bibliography, depending on the preference in the field or the author.
Other commonly used packages
- graphicx : Indispensable when working with figures/graphs.
- subfig : Controlling arrangement of several figures (e.g. 2×2 matrix)
- minitoc : Adds mini table of contents to every chapter
- nomencl : Generate and format a nomenclature
- listings : Source code printer for LaTeX
- babel : Multilingual package for standard document classes
- fancyhdr : Controlling header and footer
- hyperref : Hypertext links for LaTeX
- And many more
Minimal example code
I’m aware that this short post on writing a thesis only covers the very basics of a vast topic. However, it will help you getting started and focussing on the content of your thesis rather than the formatting of the document.
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8. June 2012 at 7:09
I would rather recommend a documentclass like memoir or scrreprt (from KOMA-Script), since they are much more flexible than report.
8. June 2012 at 8:12
I agree, my experience with them is limited though. Thanks for the addendum. Here is the documentation: memoir , scrreprt (KOMA script)
8. June 2012 at 8:02
Nice post Tom. I’m actually writing a two-part (or three) on Writing the PhD thesis: the tools . Feel free to comment, I hope to update it as I write my thesis, so any suggestions are welcome.
8. June 2012 at 8:05
Thanks for the link. I just saw your post and thought I should really check out git sometimes :-). Best, Tom.
8. June 2012 at 8:10
Yes, git is awesome. It can be a bit overwhelming with all the options and commands, but if you’re just working alone, and probably on several machines, then you can do everything effortlessly with few commands.
11. June 2012 at 2:15
That’s what has kept me so far. But I’ll definitely give it a try. Thanks!
8. June 2012 at 8:08
What a great overview. Thank you, this will come handy… when I finally get myself to start writing that thesis 🙂
8. June 2012 at 14:12
Thanks and good luck with your thesis! Tom.
9. June 2012 at 4:08
Hi, I can recommend two important packages: lineno.sty to insert linenumbers (really helpful in the debugging phase) and todonotes (allows you to insert todo-notes for things you still have to do.)
11. June 2012 at 0:48
Thanks Uwe! I wrote an article on both, lineno and todonotes . Here is the documentation: lineno and todonotes for more details.
12. June 2012 at 15:51
Thanks for the post, i’m currently writing my master thesis 🙂
A small note: it seems that subfig is deprecated for the subcaption package: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Floats,_Figures_and_Captions#Subfloats
12. June 2012 at 16:05
Hey, thanks for the tip. Too bad they don’t say anything in the documentation apart from the fact that the packages are not compatible.
1. August 2012 at 21:11
good thesis template can be also found here (free): http://enjobs.org/index.php/downloads2
including living headers, empty pages, two-sided with front and main matter as well as a complete structure
2. August 2012 at 11:03
Thanks for the link to the thesis template!
15. November 2012 at 22:21
Hi Tom, I’m writing a report on spanish in LaTex, using emacs, auctex, aspell (~170pags. ~70 files included by now) and this blog is my savior every time because I’m quite new with all these.
The question: Is there anyway (other than \- in every occurrence) to define the correct hyphenation for accented words (non english characters like é)? I have three o four accented words, about the subject of my report, that occur near 100 times each, across several files, and the \hyphenation{} command can’t handle these.
20. November 2012 at 3:47
I was wondering what packages you load in your preamble. For a better hyphenation (and easier typing), you should use these packages:
See here for more details.
If this doesn’t help, please provide a minimal working example to illustrate the problem.
Thanks, Tom.
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This template provides a full framework for writing a graduate level thesis. It is carefully structured and separated into multiple parts for easy editing. Included are the following pages/sections: a cover page, declaration of authorship, quotation, abstract, acknowledgements, contents page(s), list of figures, list of tables, abbreviations, physical constants, symbols, dedication, example chapter, example appendix and bibliography.
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This template provides a full framework for writing a graduate level thesis. It is carefully structured and separated into multiple parts for easy editing. Included are the following pages/sections: a cover page, declaration of authorship, quotation, abstract, acknowledgements, contents page(s), list of figures, list of tables, abbreviations, physical constants, symbols, dedication, example chapter, example appendix and bibliography. An example chapter is included which explains the basics of LaTeX and this template. It contains everything you need to know to begin writing your academic thesis using this template. Important note: this template comes as a zip file with multiple files and folders within it. It is worth reading the Chapter 1 introduction to the thesis to get an idea of what they do.
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This LaTeX template is used by many universities as the basis for thesis and dissertation submissions, and is a great way to get started if you haven't been provided with a specific version from your department.
This version of the template is provided by Vel at LaTeXTemplates.com , and is already loaded in Overleaf so you can start writing immediately.
Checkout this short video to see how to easily create and edit new chapters as your thesis develops.
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