This thesis template is made to help future students at Maastricht University build their master thesis. Please note that other departments beside DKE might have other writing guidelines. However, I (JoeriHermans) would recommend to use the structure I present here since it will make your life a bit easier.
The LaTeX code is subdivided into 4 main catalogues:
- head, containing the Abstract (abstract.tex), Acknowledgements (acknowledgements.tex), Cover Page (coverpage.tex), Dedication (dedication.tex), and Summary (summary.tex)
- body, containing the Introduction (introduction.tex) and sample Chapter (chapter_1.tex)
- bibliography, containing the Bibliography (bibliography_thesis.bib)
- utils, containing the Macros (macros.tex)
Additionally, two logos (logo_cern.svg and logo_university.svg) are stored in the resources/images folder.
The file thesis.tex in the main folder should only be used to add metadata (title, author, date) and include chapters using \input{body/chapter_X}, where X is the number of the chapter. No content should be added to this file directly, to avoid cluttering the file.
In the body directory, there is a sample Introduction and Chapter 1. All chapters should be built according to the file chapter_1.tex and included later in thesis.tex.
Each chapter is stored as a separate file and we strongly recommend that any further development of the thesis for personal purposes follows this structure.
All bibliography should be stored in the bibliography/bibliography_thesis.bib file (that already contains some sample bibliography entries).
Guidelines for using the file (adding references in text) are available on the Bibliography management with Bibtex website. A cheatsheet with types of entries available in Bibtex is available on this website.