chaoran-chen / ethz-thesis

LaTeX template for a PhD thesis at ETH Zurich

ethz-thesis

LaTeX template for a PhD thesis at ETH Zurich.

This template was updated and tested in October 2023. I won't continue updating it. If you have updated it, please feel free to send a PR or to create an issue with a link to your fork and I will add a reference.

Changelog

• Based on ClassicThesis by André Miede.
• Some ideas from Patrick Pletscher (title page, chapter folders).
• Adapted to A5 paperback size by Tino Wagner (tuxu)
• June 2023: Updated dependencies
• June 2023: Introduced a bibliography section per chapter

Usage

Overleaf

This was tested with Overleaf in October 2023. The logs revealed 0 errors and 9 warnings (which is pretty good for LaTeX?).

Local compilation

It is unknown when this was last tested and whether it still works.

• Install TeXLive or MacTeX.
• Clone this repository.
• Run make from the top level directory to compile.
• …

Cover

See cover/README.md for instructions on how to create a soft cover.

Sample PDF

Sample

See my PhD thesis for a complete example: Science in Real-Time – Genomic Epidemiology During the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic.

BibTeX cleaning

I used bibtex-tidy to clean and format the BibTeX files. Specifically, I used the following setting:

bibtex-tidy \
  --omit=month,abstract,keywords,groups,file,editor,eprint,publisher,note,day,urldate,copyright,language,elocation-id \
  --curly \
  --numeric \
  --align=13 \
  --blank-lines \
  --duplicates=key \
  --no-escape \
  --sort-fields=title,shorttitle,author,year,month,day,journal,booktitle,location,on,publisher,address,series,volume,number,pages,isbn,issn,urldate,copyright,category,note,metadata,doi,url \
  --trailing-commas \
  --no-remove-dupe-fields \
  YOUR_FILE.bib

License

GPLv2 inherited from ClassicThesis.