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Template for a Masters or Doctoral Thesis

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.

Please read the unofficial quick guide to the template; it contains some tips and suggestions on how to modify certain things.

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How to get started writing your thesis in LaTeX

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 .

You can upload your own thesis template to the Overleaf Gallery if your university provides a set of LaTeX template files or you may find your university's thesis template already in the Overleaf Gallery.

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bibtex entry for my master's thesis:

@MastersThesis{Nannen:Thesis:2003,     author     =     {Volker Nannen},     title     =     {{The Paradox of Overfitting}},     school     =     {Rijksuniversiteit Groningen},     address     =     {the Netherlands},     year     =     {2003},     }

Support for Master's Thesis Type and full Bibtex format

I imported my bibtex collection into Zotero and realized that Zotero does into distinguish between Master's and PhD Thesis types of documents.

• kiselev March 19, 2009 edited March 19, 2009 1. Different Thesis types are cited differently: @MastersThesis{ 2. Regarding Zotero notes and files entries when exported to BibTeX: 1) there should be at least correct representation of them in Bibtex (without ???) - so it will be possible to correct those entries in JabRef. Now you cannot open those entries there. 2) Now to exclude those entries when exporting to Bibtex I have to tag them with a special tag "extra" and put this condition in Search - not very smart ! Anyway Bibtex tab would make life easier for me and I believe for others - it is a standard way for representing references. I believe that Zotero still will be primarily used by those who knows what Bibtex is. Those who does not need this tab - not gonna use it. Thanks !

Please also take a look how categories are represented in Biblioscape GUI - a tree of checkboxes - it is a very convenient representation for managing tags or categories.

• kiselev March 19, 2009 edited March 19, 2009 Biblioscape supports hierarchies of categories which can be though as collections but not tags in Zotero. Bibsonomy supports hierarchy of tags as syntax, but lacks of proper graphical representations of those hierarchies. I like Zotero for good usability, but would like to have some freedom with Bibtex - there is nothing bad for Zotero to be a good Bibtex tool as well! Thanks !

1. Different Thesis types are cited differently: @MastersThesis {

Anyway Bibtex tab would make life easier for me and I believe for others - it is a standard way for representing references.

Those who does not need this tab - not gonna use it.

Anyway Bibtex tab would make life easier for me and I believe for others - it is a standard way for representing references. I believe that Zotero still will be primarily used by those who knows what Bibtex is.

• madpower March 11, 2010 Hi! > Can you show me a formatted bibliography where different thesis types are formatted differently? Please, have a look at http://www.ads.tuwien.ac.at/publications/bib/pdf/prandtstetter-PhD-09.pdf You will see in the References at the end of the document that there are master's theses and phd theses differentiated through the words "master's thesis" and "phd thesis". BTW: these are set automatically by BibTeX and not inserted by the user!!! With respect to BibTeX: There are sciences where BibTeX and LaTeX is the standard - mainly computer sciences and all other sciences incorporating a lot of formulas in papers. So please, do not say that only a negligible mass of people uses BibTeX. BTW: Large publisher as Springer and Elsevier support LaTeX and BibTeX with their own style files making the complete publishing process much easier. br, Matthias

You will see in the References at the end of the document that there are master's theses and phd theses differentiated through the words "master's thesis" and "phd thesis".

• madpower March 12, 2010 > Really, I think that it's a bug that BibTeX models these as distinct fields Maybe one can argue that BibTeX is missing a "simple" thesis field but I rather think it is a bug that any type of thesis in Zotero is exported as @phdthesis using the BibTeX-exporter. This is definitely not correct. I hope someone related in developing this exporter will take notice of this anyhow. For now, I have to rethink whether Zotero is usable (for me) since unfortunately I have items which are phd theses and others which are master's theses but BTW I have no other thesis type (although there might be a lot of others) in my list of about 300 publications. greetings, Matthias

Maybe one can argue that BibTeX is missing a "simple" thesis field but I rather think it is a bug that any type of thesis in Zotero is exported as @phdthesis using the BibTeX-exporter. This is definitely not correct.

• madpower March 12, 2010 Sorry, if someone misunderstood my comment: I do not expect any develoepr to invest time if s/he is not interested in. But I think that one of the goals of any such system is that as much people as possible use it. So, if BibTeX is not correctly supported (e.g. import BibTeX and then export it again leads to different outputs) users using BibTeX will unlikely use Zotero. It is as easy as this. For example, one solution would be that the "Type" field is used as identification. Eg. type "phd" leads to @phdthesis , type "master" leads to @masterthesis and any other type leads to @misc (since there is no solely @thesis in BibTeX). I thought that such a solution is "obvious". Sorry. BTW: Saying "BibTeX introduces a silly data model" is wrong and shortminded. BibTeX is open in such a term that if you want your special entrytype (eg. @bachthesis for bachelor theses) then write it and extend your style file for correctly formatting this entry. This is done in about 15 minutes of work. Anyhow, you will notice that in many, many years of existing BibTeX no-one ever thought that such an entry type is really important - otherwise it would already be included in a "standard" BibTeX installation. Each BibTeX-implementation will however ignore unknown types without any error messages, i.e. you can add your own fields/types in public bib-files while others (having not your extended BibTeX-version) can still use it. regards, Matthias

For example, one solution would be that the "Type" field is used as identification. Eg. type "phd" leads to @phdthesis , type "master" leads to @masterthesis and any other type leads to @misc (since there is no solely @thesis in BibTeX). I thought that such a solution is "obvious". Sorry.

• ajlyon March 12, 2010 As I stated before, I certainly think that this could be improved in the BibTeX export translator ( https://www.zotero.org/trac/browser/extension/trunk/translators/BibTeX.js ). I think that it should be possible to treat some of the unambiguous cases (M.A., M.S. and some more -> @mastersthesis , everything else -> @phdthesis ). Since the two @XXXthesis types are treated similarly in most styles, this shouldn't cause issues. Even so, I'm a little afraid of trying to handle this using too clever of logic in the export translator, since this choice of which type to output is being made by guessing, and incorrect guesses can be very confusing for users who are creating items that are, to Zotero, of the same type. As for the design of BibTeX's theses and BibTeX in general, the flexibility that it provides is great for its intended purpose-- authoring by a number of computer-savvy authors using an openly extensible document authoring system. That's not the same as Zotero's model, and it's not a model for robust bibliographic data interchange. I think it should be feasible to tweak the BibTeX.js translator so that items that @mastersthesis items it imports will export back to @mastersthesis items, using the Type field as noted. This would require changes to both import and export, since the translator doesn't appear to populate Type on import on the basis of the choice of @XXXthesis .

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Guide to BibTeX Type PhdThesis

BibTeX is a reference management tool that is commonly used in LaTeX documents. The “phdthesis” BibTeX type is used for PhD dissertations or theses. In this guide, we will explain the required and optional fields for the “phdthesis” BibTeX type.

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Required Fields

The “phdthesis” BibTeX type requires the following fields:

• author : The author of the thesis.
• title : The title of the thesis.
• school : The name of the institution that awarded the degree.
• year : The year the degree was awarded.

Optional Fields

In addition to the required fields, the “phdthesis” BibTeX type also has a number of optional fields that can be used to provide additional information. These fields include:

• type : The type of the thesis, such as “PhD thesis” or “Master’s thesis”.
• address : The location of the institution.
• month : The month the thesis was submitted.
• note : Any additional information about the thesis.

Here is an example of how to use the “phdthesis” BibTeX type:

In this example, the BibTeX entry defines a PhD thesis authored by John Smith titled “An Analysis of Example”. The degree was awarded in 2022 by the University of Example, and the thesis was submitted in June in Example City, CA. The type of the thesis is specified as “PhD thesis”, and a note is included that provides a URL for the thesis.

BibTeX phdthesis template

The phdthesis entry type is intended to be used for a PhD thesis.

Minimal template

Minimal template with required fields only for a BibTeX phdthesis entry.

Full template

Full template including required and optional fields for a BibTeX phdthesis entry.

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@masterthesis doesn't work for bibtex citation [duplicate]

I'm using bibtex and I would like to know how to cite a @masterthesis . I've exported Mendeley's citations and it has only the @phdthesis style, which actually works. Is there any way to make work with @masterthesis instead? My bibliography at the end of the paper gets wrong.

I'm using abntcite.sty .

Here goes the code:

• bibliographies

• Welcoe to TeX SX! biblatex knows the masterthesis entry type. –  Bernard Commented Feb 13, 2018 at 22:35
• Which bibliography style are you using? Can you add a minimal working example with bibliography (MWEB) ? –  samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz Commented Feb 13, 2018 at 22:37
• 7 Typo: It should be @mastersthesis –  samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz Commented Feb 13, 2018 at 22:39
• 1 Mendeley is wrong: it should be @mastersthesis –  egreg Commented Feb 13, 2018 at 23:11

Actually, I found out that @master s thesis works, with the "s", instead of @masterthesis.

• 7 You found out. Or you read the comments posted 90 minutes before you answered your question? –  cfr Commented Feb 14, 2018 at 1:21
• 1 I actually found out without reading the comments =) –  Raphango Commented Feb 15, 2018 at 0:22
• Yes @mastersthesis works –  bim Commented Mar 16, 2021 at 12:32

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