Latex phd thesis tutorial

In the frontmatter, pages are numbered with lower case Roman numbers (i, ii, iii, etc.) and the chapters are not numbered (as if the asterisk version \chapter*{} was used). In the mainmatter, pages are numbered with Arabic numbers (the numbers start from 1) and the chapters are numbered with Arabic numbers as well.

Your thesis could be the longest and most complicated document you'll ever write, which is why it's such a good idea to use LaTeX instead of a common word processor. LaTeX makes tasks that are difficult and awkward in word processors, far simpler. When writing something like a thesis its worth splitting up the document into multiple.tex files.

Here we provide a guide to getting started on writing your thesis in LaTeX, using a standard template which is pre-loaded into Overleaf. We have a large number of thesis templates in our online library, and you can upload your own if your university provides a set of LaTeX template files.

To do this we use the \appendix command to tell LaTeX that what follows are appendices. Again We'll write the appendix in a separate file and then input it. If we now compile the document, all our chapters will be added to the document and the table of contents will be automatically generated. Now we have a basic structure for a thesis set up.