McGill PhD Thesis Template

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Template for PhD Thesis at McGill University.

As of October 2023 this template complies to the official guidelines: https://www.mcgill.ca/gps/thesis/thesis-guidelines/preparation

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% This structure conforms to the mcgill university wide thesis guidelines:
% 
% https://www.mcgill.ca/gps/thesis/thesis-guidelines/preparation
% Some parts of it were taken from here, but mostly it is a "from scratch" template with minimal bload and fuzz: https://github.com/juliengs/mcgill-thesis-template
% Author: Maximilian Schiedermeier

\documentclass[12pt,oneside]{book}
\usepackage{graphicx}

% enable onehalfspaceing etc
\usepackage{setspace}

% Make chapter enumeration big and fat
\usepackage{fix-cm}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage[bf,rm,medium,compact]{titlesec}
\definecolor{gray75}{gray}{0.75}
\newcommand{\hsp}{\hspace{20pt}}
\titleformat{\chapter}[display]{\filleft\Huge\bfseries}{\fontsize{100}{100}\selectfont\textcolor{gray75}\thechapter}{1ex}{}[]%


% Enable non-ugly hyperlinks
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}




% Some metadata for your generated PDF
\title{Phd Thesis}
\author{Your-First-Name Your-Family-Name}
\date{\today}

% DOCUMENT BEGINS
\begin{document}


% Special command to link to official guidelines:
\newcommand{\mcgillguidelines}{\href{https://www.mcgill.ca/gps/thesis/thesis-guidelines/preparation}{Official McGill Guidelines: }}


% TITLE PAGE
\begin{onehalfspacing}
\pagestyle{empty}
\input{content/TitlePage.tex}
\cleardoublepage
\end{onehalfspacing}


% Pages in all "Chapters" before the actual thesis content are enumerated in roman (i, ii, iii, ...)
\pagenumbering{roman}
\pagestyle{plain}


% Abstracts in English and French
\input{content/AbstractEnglish}
\clearpage
\input{content/AbstractFrench}
\cleardoublepage


% List of Contributions
% Abstracts in English and French
\input{content/Contributions}
\clearpage


% Acknowledgements
\input{content/Acknowledgements}
\clearpage

% Next comes the GENERATED list of contents, figures and tables.
\tableofcontents
\listoffigures
\listoftables
\clearpage



% Here comes the actual thesis content, we switch back to arabic page numbers.
\pagenumbering{arabic}
% \pagestyle{fancyplain}


% Intro and literature are mandatory mcgill parts:
\input{content/Introduction}
\input{content/RelevantLiterature}

% Two sample parts with sample chapters, change this parts as much as your little heart desires:
\part{Why Does the Sun Shine?}
\label{part:part1}
\input{content/Chapter01}
\input{content/Chapter02}

\part{Why Does the Sun Really Shine?}
\label{part:part2}
\input{content/Chapter03}
% more chapters here, you get the idea...


% Finally, as you reach the end of your thesis: (Discussion is a mandatory part, see mcgill guidelines:
% https://www.mcgill.ca/gps/thesis/thesis-guidelines/preparation
\part{Discussion and Conclusions}
\label{part:disclusions}
\input{content/Discussion}
\input{content/Conclusions}
% If you want to mention future work, pack it here.


% List of YOUR publications
\input{content/Publications}

% Optional: List of Acronyms / Glossary
\input{content/Acronyms}

% Finally your references
% PLEASE use a management system, e.g. Zotero (this works really nice with overleaf, there's seamless referencing of all your organized papers from zotero).
% To add zotero, use "New file -> From Zotero"
\bibliographystyle{alpha}
\bibliography{references}

\end{document}