Thesis

The thesis.cls class provides environments and commands to typeset a Ph.D. thesis with very simple title pages and style. Ideally this is the template for thesis in the Dep. of Physics at the University of Torino, Italy.

Included Packages

In addition to the default packages in the article class, the class includes:

• graphicx for pictures and figures,

• geometry for margins,

• booktabs for improved tables (with multicol and multirow support if needed),

• caption for better control over captions,

• xcolor for coloured output and text,

• fancyhdr for fancy style,

• tocbibind to insert the bibliography in the table of contents (with nottoc option to avoid duplicating the Contents section in the table),

• titlesec to customise title page and sectioning,

• biblatex to handle the bilbiography (bibtex backend, none sorting, ieee style, and at most 3 names before truncating to et al.),

• bookmark to load hyperref and customise metadata.

Compiler

The class uses XeLaTeX to compile to have more freedom over fonts.

Macros

The class provides the following macros used to typeset the title page:

• \author for the author name and surname,

• \title for the title of the thesis,

• \advisor for the name of the Ph.D. advisor,

• \institution for the institute,

• \school for the name of the specialisation school,

• \specialisation for the name of the specialisation/department,

• \logo for the logo of the university/college

Environments

The following are the environments provided by the class.

Abstract

The environment abstractpage provides a space in which to type the standalone abstract of the thesis.

Acknowledgements

The environment acknowledgmentspage provides a standalone page for ackowledgments.

Commands

This is a collection of commands which can be used to typeset the thesis:

Title page

The command \maketitlepage is reminiscent of \maketitle in the standard article class. It creates a simple title page to display information.

Frontespice

The command \makefrontespice generates a second title page to accompany the first containing more explicit information.

Clear page

The command \cleardoubleplainpage provides clearing of two pages (without styling) to start in odd pages.

TOC

The command \plaintoc generates a table of contents without specific styles defined.

Parts

The command \thesispart creates a standalone page with the title of the part section. It takes one argument representing the title of the part.

Outline

Using \outline it is possible to insert an unnumbered section containing the standalone outline of the thesis. It takes one argument representing the title of the section. It will be added to the table of contents before the first part section.