An XeLaTeX thesis template for research postgraduate (MPhil and PhD) and professional doctorate (PD) students at City University of Hong Kong.
This thesis tempalte builds upon the CUED PhD thesis template from Krishna Kumar. It is adapted to meet the regulations governing the format of theses (as of 2021-22).
Please read Regulations Governing the Format of Theses and Sample of the Front Cover/Spine/Title Page of a Thesis (Appendixes 13 and 14 of the Guidebook for Research Degree Studies). See thesis.pdf for an example PDF created with this template.
Credit goes to Krishna Kumar, author of the CUED PhD thesis template above.
This template is included in CityU-Thesis, a collection of LaTeX thesis template for students at City University of Hong Kong. You can find more templates in that repository.
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Fonts: Times New Roman and MingLiU/細明體 (or PMingLiU/新細明體) should be used in the title page of a thesis to provide thesis information in both Chinese and English. Make sure they have already been installed system-wide. Note that (P)MingLiu is not installed on online LaTex editors, such as Overleaf. If you want to use this template online, you may need to put the font file, e.g., PMingLiU.ttf, in current directory and load font by modifing
PhDThesisPSnPDF.cls. Please find and replace\newfontfamily\mingliu{PMingLiU}with\newfontfamily\mingliu{[PMingLiU.ttf]}. -
XeLaTeX: Configure your document to be compiled with
XeLaTeXtypesetting engine to use the external fonts above.
The main file is thesis.tex, from which a number of other files are included. Take a look at the comments in the LaTeX sources for some more specific pointers.
To compile, simply run thesis.tex through XeLaTeX.
CityU_Thesis is added to the Overleaf Gallery. You can find it here.
Although this template is built to satisfy the requirements of CityU, it is not an official template. Use this template at your own risk.
CUED PhD thesis template by Krishna Kumar is licensed under the MIT License.