AT X A Guide to Producing Your Thesis with L E Timothy M.

Toolan Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Rhode Island Kingston, Rhode Island, 02881 http://www.ele.uri.edu/info/thesis/guide

Contents
Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
A 2 Getting L TEX(and an editor) A 2.1 Determining if L TEX is Needed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A 2.2 L TEX Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A 2.3 L TEX Aware Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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3 Downloading the Template Files 3.1 Installing the Template Files on UNIX . . 3.2 Installing the Template Files on Windows 3.3 What the Template Consists of . . . . . . 3.4 Testing the Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.4.1 Testing a UNIX Setup . . . . . . . 3.4.2 Testing a Windows Setup . . . . . 4 Conguring the Initial Options 4.1 Setting the Class Options . . . 4.2 Setting the Title and Author . 4.3 The Bibliography Source File . 4.4 The Preliminary Material . . . 4.5 The Chapters . . . . . . . . . . 4.6 The Appendices . . . . . . . . . 4.7 Additional Considerations . . .

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5 Generating the Thesis 10 5.1 Generating the Thesis in UNIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 5.2 Generating the thesis in Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 6 Options for the Class urithesis 6.1 Using Options With the urithesis Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.2 Complete list of Options for urithesis Class . . . . . . . . . . . 6.2.1 General Options for urithesis Class . . . . . . . . . . . 6.2.2 Writing Options for urithesis Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.2.3 Library Rights Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.2.4 Using the urithesis Class to Generate a Thesis Proposal 6.3 Some Examples Using These Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 12 12 12 13 13 13 14

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Chapter 1

Introduction
So youre nally going to write your thesis. The deadline is two days away. You havent started yet! Dont A worry; youll make it. This guide will show you the steps needed to write your thesis using L TEX. It covers how to generate the preliminary material like the approval page and table of contents, and how to generate your bibliography and references. A A Throughout this guide, we only explain how to use pdfL TEX, which is similar to L TEX, but generates A .pdf les directly. Additionally, when using pdfL TEXin the electronic version of the thesis, it has the ability A TEX instead to add the table of contents as a menu, and contains clickable references. If you want to use L A of pdfL TEX, just use the command latex whenever this document refers to the command pdflatex. A This document doesnt cover how to use L TEX itself, but some useful references are The Not So Short 1 A A A Introduction to L TEX 2 , our Departments L TEX reference2 , and L TEX help3 from Emory University. Also, searching Google for latex help gives lots of useful information.

1.1

Getting Started

A The L TEX format provided here is designed to conform to the thesis format specications set down by the Graduate School4 . You might want to read through the Guidelines for the Format of Theses and Dissertations5 which will explain terms such as standard and manuscript formats. The section on Theses Preparation and Approval6 of the The Graduate Student Manual7 is also a useful source of information. The steps required to generate a complete shell of a thesis are: A 1. Getting L TEX and an appropriate editor if necessary

2. Downloading the template les 3. Conguring the initial options 4. Generating the thesis

1 http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf 2 http://www.ele.uri.edu/info/latex 3 http://www.emerson.emory.edu/services/latex/latex 4 http://www.uri.edu/gsadmis 5 http://www.uri.edu/gsadmis/home.htm 6 http://www.uri.edu/gsadmis/Section

toc.html

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7 http://www.uri.edu/gsadmis/TOC.html

Chapter 2 A Getting L TEX(and an editor)

2.1
A Determining if L TEX is Needed

A If you are using one of the Departments UNIX machines, you can skip this step because L TEX will already A be installed. Additionally, most Linux distributions come with L TEX, and will install it by default. You can A TEX is installed by typing: check on any UNIX system to see if L

which pdflatex
A at the command prompt. If it says something like Command not found then L TEX is not installed, A otherwise it will show the full path to the executable, indicating L TEX is available on that system.

2.2

A L TEX Distributions

A A If you need to install L TEX, the following are complete L TEX distributions that are available for download. Select the one appropriate for your operating system, and install it.

MikTEX1 , the recommended choice for Windows. teTEX2 for UNIX, (available on most Linux distributions). TEX Live3 for UNIX, MacOS X, and Windows.

2.3

A L TEX Aware Editors

A Because L TEX source les are just ordinary text les, any text editor can be used to edit them, but it A is important to have a L TEX aware editor, which can do things like syntax highlighting and automatic formatting. On UNIX systems, emacs is the editor of choice, and should already be installed. On Windows systems, the shareware program WinEdt4 integrates nicely with MikTEX1 , and it is highly recommended that you install and use this editor to save a lot of time and eort.

1 http://www.miktex.org/ 2 http://www.tug.org/teTeX 3 http://www.tug.org/texlive 4 http://www.winedt.com/

Chapter 3

Downloading the Template Files

A Now that both L TEX and an appropriate editor are available, you will need the les that are specic to the University of Rhode Island thesis format. The eight les which make up the template1 will produce this thesis2 . Follow the steps for installing these les based on which operating system you are using.

3.1

Installing the Template Files on UNIX

You should download the le thesis.zip3 and save it to your home directory. Next use the unzip program to unpack the archive by typing unzip thesis.zip at the command prompt. The les should now be in a directory named thesis.

3.2

Installing the Template Files on Windows

You should download and run the le thesis.exe4 , which is a self extracting executable that will create a directory named thesis containing all of the necessary les.

3.3

What the Template Consists of

The template1 consists of eight les, which include the four format les:
A urithesis.cls - the main L TEX class

uribib.bst - the bibliography style le uriref.bst and uriapa.bst - the list of references style les which should never need to be modied. They just need to stay in the same directory as your main .tex le, and they contain all of the information to format your thesis such that is acceptable to the Graduate School. The template also contains the four les:
A thesis.tex - the top level le, and the only one that L TEX is run on

abstract.tex - an example of the preliminary material chapter1.tex - an example chapter references.bib - an example bibliographic database which are very simple examples to get you started. You will need to edit these les while writing your thesis, and add some additional les as well, but in their current form they will produce this thesis2 .
1 http://www.ele.uri.edu/info/thesis/thesisbase/thesis/ 2 http://www.ele.uri.edu/info/thesis/thesisbase/thesis/thesis.pdf 3 http://www.ele.uri.edu/info/thesis/thesisbase/unix/thesis.zip 4 http://www.ele.uri.edu/info/thesis/thesisbase/win/thesis.exe

3.4

Testing the Setup

These les will be explained in detail in the next chapter, but in their current form they will produce this thesis5 . In order to verify that you have a functioning setup, we will now generate the thesis.

3.4.1

Testing a UNIX Setup

Get a command prompt, such as a terminal program like xterm, and go to the directory that contains the les you just unpacked. At the prompt type the following commands: pdflatex thesis.tex sh genbib.bat pdflatex thesis.tex pdflatex thesis.tex The rst time you run pdflatex, it generates .aux les which contain the information needed to create the bibliography and lists of references, as well as information needed to create the table of contents, list of gures, and list of tables. It also creates the script genbib.bat, which runs BibTEX on all of the necessary .aux les to create .bbl les, which are the actual bibliography and lists of references. Finally, pdflatex is run two more times, the rst time includes the bibliography and lists of references, and the second time resolves bibliographic citations to their entry in the list of references. You should now have a le called thesis.pdf which should look like this5 .

3.4.2

Testing a Windows Setup

Start WinEdt, and open the le thesis.tex. Run PDF LaTeX by pressing the button . Next press the Run... button, , and run the command genbib.bat. Finally, press the PDF TeXify button, , to generate and display the thesis. The displayed thesis should look like this5 . Alternatively, you can run the commands from a command prompt as pdflatex thesis.tex genbib.bat pdflatex thesis.tex pdflatex thesis.tex Note that they only dier from the UNIX commands in that the sh is not needed in front of the genbib.bat command.

5 http://www.ele.uri.edu/info/thesis/thesisbase/thesis/thesis.pdf

Chapter 4

Conguring the Initial Options

A At this point, it is assumed that you have a working L TEX distribution, an editor, and have downloaded and installed the necessary template les. If not, do that rst. Now we will explain how to set things like the title, the author name, and whether it is a masters thesis or a doctoral dissertation. Start by opening the le thesis.tex in your editor.

4.1

Setting the Class Options

The rst line of the le will be: \documentclass{urithesis}

A This tells L TEX to use the urithesis document class with all default options. There are many options that that can be given, but for now we will only concern ourselves with one. If this is a Ph.D. dissertation, change the rst line to be:

\documentclass[phd]{urithesis}

4.2

Setting the Title and Author

To set the title, you use the command: \title{The Title of My Thesis} Make sure to use proper capitalization. Since you will be the author, set your name using the command: \author{John L.~Doe}
A The tilde between the middle initial and the last name tells L TEX that the period does not indicate the end of a sentence, and to use a normal interword space.

4.3

The Bibliography Source File

The references will come from one or more .bib les that you create. This is the only type of le without a .tex extension that you will need to edit. The line: \reffile{references} tells BibTEX to look in the le references.bib for references cited in the thesis. The argument to the \reffile command can be a comma separated list of les (without the .bib extension), and it will look in all of those les. 7

4.4

The Preliminary Material

The pages that come before the rst chapter are called the preliminary material. See the page Physical Specications for a Thesis1 , on the Graduate Schools web site, for more information about the preliminary material. The preliminary material includes, in this order: Section Title Page Approval Page Abstract Acknowledgments Dedication Preface Table of Contents List of Tables List of Figures Command to include section automatic automatic required optional optional optional automatic automatic automatic

\abstract{filename} \acknowledgements{filename} \dedication{filename} \preface{filename}

The automatic sections will be generated automatically, and you need not worry about them. The List of Tables and List of Figures sections will only be generated if the thesis contains any tables or gures, respectively. The argument to the command to include the four manual sections, is the name of the .tex le that contains the content for that section, without the .tex extension. For example the abstract is included with the command: \abstract{abstract} which means it will us the contents of the le abstract.tex as the abstract. The le abstract.tex should contain only the text of the abstract, as the title will be generated automatically.

4.5

The Chapters

Chapters are included with the command: \newchapter{chapterN} which will include the le chapterN.tex in the thesis. There should be one \newchapter{} command for each chapter of the thesis. The chapter source les should each begin with the command \chapter{The Title of This Chapter} followed by the contents of the chapter.

4.6

The Appendices

Appendices are optional, but if present, they are included with the command: \newappendix{appendixN} which will include the le appendixN.tex in the thesis. There should be a \newappendix{} command for each appendix of the thesis. The main dierence between appendices and chapters, are that chapters are numbered starting with 1, while appendices start with the letter A. The contents of an appendix is identical to that of a chapter. Each appendix source le should begin with the command: \chapter{The Title of This Appendix} command, just like with chapters.
1 http://www.uri.edu/gsadmis/definitions

4.7

Additional Considerations

By default, the department named on the title page is Electrical Engineering, but that can be changed by using the command: \dept{My Department} before any of the chapters are included. The year that the thesis is generated is displayed on the title page and approval page, but the Graduate School requires that year must be the year of your ocial graduation. To set that date to a specic year, other than the current year, use the command: \copyrightyear{year} before the \begin{document} command.

Chapter 5

Generating the Thesis

The steps for generating the thesis were given in section 3.4, but here we will discuss the steps in a little more detail. Because the steps are dierent on dierent operating systems, we will again discuss them separately.

5.1

Generating the Thesis in UNIX

From a command prompt, such as a terminal program like xterm, go to the directory that contains the thesis. This is the directory where you will run all of your commands. To update thesis.pdf with the changes that you have made, type the command: pdflatex thesis.tex then open up thesis.pdf in a .pdf viewer. Most .pdf viewers have the ability to reload the modied le without closing the viewer, which can be convenient while writing the thesis, so if it is already open in a viewer, just reload it. Besides pdflatex, which generates the thesis, the other command that you will need to use is sh genbib.bat which will update the bibliography and list of references. This command only needs to be run after you have added a new citation. Note that you never need to run bibtex explicitly, the script genbib.bat takes care of it for you. To ensure that all labels, lists of references, the bibliography, the list of tables, the list of gures, and the table of contents are up to date, such as for a nal copy of your thesis, you can run the sequence of commands pdflatex thesis.tex sh genbib.bat pdflatex thesis.tex pdflatex thesis.tex and it will ensure that everything is up to date. A Sometimes an error in one of your .tex les can corrupt one of the auxiliary les created by L TEX. It is always okay to delete any of these auxiliary les, as they will always be recreated. The le extensions that can be safely deleted include .aux, .bbl, .blg, .log, .lot, .lof, .toc, and .out. To remove all of the .aux les, which are usually the problem, type the command rm *.aux

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5.2

Generating the thesis in Windows

A In WinEdt, open the thesis.tex. This is the only le which you will need to run L TEX on. To update and display the thesis.pdf le

press the button

PDF TeXify.

This will run pdflatex on the thesis, and start or reload the .pdf viewer. Whenever you make changes to any of the .tex les, you still only run PDF TeXify on the le thesis.tex. To update the bibliography and lists of references press the button Run..., then run the command genbib.bat

This command only needs to be run after you have added a new citation. Note that you never need to run bibtex explicitly, the script genbib.bat takes care of it for you. To ensure that all labels, lists of references, the bibliography, the list of tables, the list of gures, and the table of contents are up to date, such as for a nal copy of your thesis, you can run the following sequence of commands in WinEdt. Open the le thesis.tex in WinEdt, then press the button press the button press the button press the button PDF LaTeX Run..., then run the command genbib.bat PDF LaTeX PDF LaTeX

This will ensure that everything is up to date in the thesis. A TEX. It is Sometimes an error in one of your .tex les can corrupt one of the auxiliary les created by L always okay to delete any of these auxiliary les, as they will always be recreated. The le extensions that can be safely deleted include .aux, .bbl, .blg, .log, .lot, .lof, .toc, and .out. In WinEdt, there is an icon of a recycle bin called Erase Working Files. Clicking on this icon will remove all of these les for you.

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Chapter 6

Options for the Class urithesis

The options in this chapter aect the overall appearance of the thesis, as well as indicating things like whether it is a masters thesis or a doctoral dissertation. If it is not clear what some of the terms mean, (like standard or manuscript format), refer to the Guidelines for the Format of Theses and Dissertations1 on the Graduate Schools web page2 .

6.1

Using Options With the urithesis Class

All options are added to the \documentclass{urithesis} line, which should be the rst line in thesis.tex. They are enclosed in square brackets right after the word \documentclass, and multiple options should be separated by commas. An example of a dissertation with four committee members, and using a ten point font, would be specied as: \documentclass[phd,4committee,10pt]{urithesis} Additional examples are given at the end of this chapter.

6.2
6.2.1

Complete list of Options for urithesis Class

General Options for urithesis Class

The options in this section aect the overall appearance of the thesis, but all of them comply with the Graduate School guidelines for theses and dissertations. phd, masters: this species whether this is a PhD. dissertation or a masters thesis. The default is masters. 10pt, 11pt, 12pt: this determines the font size used throughout the document. The default is 12pt. oneref: this will create a single list of references for the whole thesis, instead of a separate list of references at the end of each chapter. When this option is selected, the list of references will appear after the last chapter and before the rst appendix. The default is to have a separate list of references for each chapter. manuscript: this species that your thesis is in manuscript format. The only dierence between this and standard format, is that each chapter will be called manuscript. For instance, Chapter 1 will now be Manuscript 1.
1 http://www.uri.edu/gsadmis/home.htm 2 http://www.uri.edu/gsadmis/

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 3committee, 4committee, 5committee: this is the number of people on your core committee, which determines how many signature lines are needed on the signature page. Each committee consists of a minimum of three core members, plus the Dean of the Graduate School. The committee chairman does NOT sign the approval page. (If you are not sure how many core committee members you have, please consult with your major professor.) The default is 3committee. sequential, nonsequential: this species whether you want numbering of gures, equations, and tables reset to 1 at the beginning of each chapter (nonsequential), or if you want the numbers to be sequential throughout the whole document. The default is sequential. topnum, bottomnum: this species whether you prefer your page numbers on the top right or bottom center of the page. The default is bottomnum. aparefs: this will cite references using the APA style, which is the last name of the author and year of publication, such as (Toolan, 2006), instead of the IEEE style, which is a number, such as [1].

6.2.2

Writing Options for urithesis Class

The options in this section are intended to ease writing the thesis. All of the options in this section will prevent the thesis from conforming to the Graduate School guidelines, so none of these should be used when generating the nal copy. draft: when this option is specied, any overfull boxes are shown by a black box indicating the area that is too large. This is useful for nding anything that has gone outside the acceptable margins, like equations that are too long, or gures and tables that are too big. Only the lename of included gures are actually displayed. draftbox: this is the same as the draft option, except gures are actually displayed. simpleref: when specied, there will be a single list of references and no bibliography. noprelim: when specied, all of the preliminary pages, (the pages before the start of chapter 1), are A not generated. This can be used with the nobib option and the L TEX command \includeonly{}, to produce a document containing only the chapter you are currently working on. nobib: when specied, there will be no bibliography or list of references.

6.2.3

Library Rights Page

The Graduate School requires a Library Rights Page, which is to be included with the original copy of the thesis. Selecting this option will generate that page, and only that page, ignoring the rest of the thesis. libraryrightspage: this option will generate just the Library Rights Page, which should be included with the orignal copy submitted to the Graduate School. All other options except font size, copy/nocopy, and phd/masters are ignored when this option is given. copy,nocopy: this determines whether you want to give the library permission to make copies of the thesis. This option only applies to the Library Rights Page. The default is copy.

6.2.4

Using the urithesis Class to Generate a Thesis Proposal

Because the thesis proposal is formatted similarly to the thesis in terms of spacing, this option can be used to generate the proposal. In that case, there is only one .tex le, which includes all of the sections. proposal: this species that this is a thesis proposal, and not an actual thesis. When it is a proposal, there is only one list of references at the end, and no bibliography. All of the other options except font size and page number location are ignored because they make no sense in a proposal.

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6.3

Some Examples Using These Options

For each of the following examples, the document that would be produced by adding the specied options to the template les from chapter 3 is given. For reference, the template les with no options produces this thesis. For a masters thesis with a single list of references (view): \documentclass[oneref]{urithesis} For a PhD. dissertation (view): \documentclass[phd]{urithesis} For a manuscript format dissertation with a four member committee, and page numbers on the top right (view): \documentclass[phd,manuscript,4committee,topnum]{urithesis} To generate the library rights page for the above dissertation, just add the option libraryrightspage to the list of options, then run pfdlatex on the thesis, (view): \documentclass[phd,manuscript,4committee,topnum,libraryrightspage]{urithesis} For a masters thesis with citations that use the author and year (view): \documentclass[aparefs]{urithesis} For a PhD. dissertation with a ten point font (view): \documentclass[phd,10pt]{urithesis} To exclude the preliminary material, like the title page, table of contents, etc., (view): \documentclass[noprelim]{urithesis}

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Chapter 7

The Bibliography and References

The bibliography and list of references are generated automatically. All you need to do, is create a .bib le, which is a database containing all of the necessary information about the references, then cite the reference in your thesis using the \cite{} or \nocite{} command. The command \reffile{} in the le thesis.tex, A is used to tell L TEX which .bib les to include.

7.1

Generating the Bibliography and References

The bibliography and list of references are generated by BibTEX, but you never run bibtex directly. A TEX, it will create the le genbib.bat, which will contain the appropriate BibTEXcommands. When you run L This is a script le which works on both UNIX and Windows. To run it on a Windows system, just type genbib.bat in a run window or at a command prompt. To run it on a UNIX or Linux system, type the command sh genbib.bat at the command prompt. A When you run this command, it creates les with .bbl extensions which are L TEX code for the bibliography and references. These les are only updated when you run genbib.bat, therefore whenever you add a citation, or edit your references.bib le, you need to run genbib.bat to update your bibliography and references.

7.2

Types of References

The Graduate School requires that the bibliography is always at the end of the thesis and sorted alphabetically by author, therefore there is no options that aect it. The list of references is optional, therefore there are a few dierent ways that it can created. By default a separate list of references appears at the end of each chapter, and are sorted by the order that they are cited in that chapter. The option oneref (see chapter 6) will create a single list of references for the whole thesis, which due to the requirements of the Graduate School, will appear after the last chapter and before any appendices. The option aparefs will cite references using the APA style, which is the last name of the author and year of publication, such as (Toolan, 2006), instead of the default IEEE style, which is a number, such as [1]. This option will also sort the references alphabetically by author, instead of in order of citation. The options oneref and aparefs can be used together to create a single list of references using the APA style.

7.3

Bibliography Entry Types

The bibliography format used by the urithesis class is based on the IEEE format. All of the types of entries that can appear in the .bib le, (like book, article, etc.), along with their required and optional elements (like author, title, etc.), are documented in Section V (pp. 4-7) of the paper How to Use the IEEEtran

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BibTEX Style1 . The other sections of this paper are not relevant, and can be ignored. Some of the main types, along with their more common options are: Type Article Book InProceedings PhdThesis Electronic Required Fields author, title, journal, year author, title, publisher, year author, title, booktitle, year author, title, school, year author or organization, title, year Optional Fields volume, number, pages, month edition, address, series month, pages, address address url, month, key

The following is an example of an entry in the .bib le. @InProceedings{ re:toolan:as03, author = "Timothy M. Toolan and Donald W. Tufts", title = "Detection and estimation in non-stationary environments", booktitle = "Proceedings {IEEE} Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems \& Computers", pages = "797-801", month = nov, year = "2003", } The type of this entry is InProceedings, and is case insensitive. Every eld of an entry is of the form fieldname = "data", The data must be enclosed in either in double quotes or curly braces, and every line ends with a comma. The rst entry (in this case re:toolan:as03), is the label that is used to cite this reference in the document. This entry would be cited as \cite{re:toolan:as03}, and would produce a bibliography entry that looks something like: Toolan, T. M. and Tufts, D. W., Detection and estimation in non-stationary environments, in Proceedings IEEE Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems & Computers, Nov. 2003, pp. 797801.

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Additional Comments

Because we are eectively creating multiple bibliographies, (one for the actual bibliography, and one for each A TEX commands \bibliographystyle{} and \bibliography{} are not used. list of references), the two L They have been redened to do nothing, and the equivalent of these commands are done automatically when necessary. When there is a reference that should be included in the bibliography, but does not need to be explicitly referenced in the thesis, use the \nocite{} command. This command works like the \cite{} command, except it does not put the citation in the list of references, only in the bibliography. The \nocite{} command must appear after the rst \newchapter{} command, or it will be ignored. When using the option aparefs, and a citation does not have an author, (such as often occurs with a web page), the key eld can be used to specify what to use in the citation instead of the authors name.

1 http://www.ele.uri.edu/Info/thesis/guide/biblio

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.bib le, 1516 entries, 15 bibliography, 15 bibtex, 15 department, 9 editor emacs, 4 winedt, 4 font size, 12 genbib.bat, 6, 10, 11, 15 generating thesis, 10 graduation year, 9 latex, 3 distributions, 4 editor, 4 help, 3 installing, 4 running, 10 using, 3 library rights page, 13 manuscript format, 12 miktex, 4 \nocite, 16 options, 12 10pt, 11pt, 12pt, 12 aparefs, 13, 15 manuscript, 12 oneref, 12, 15 phd, masters, 12 sequential, nonsequential, 13 signature lines, 13 topnum, bottomnum, 13 pdatex, see latex preliminary material, 8 proposal, 13 template les, 5 downloading, 5 uriapa.bst, 5 uribib.bst, 5 uriref.bst, 5 urithesis.cls, 5 tetex, 4 thesis proposal, 13 uriapa.bst, 5 uribib.bst, 5 uriref.bst, 5 urithesis.cls, 5 writing options draft, 13 draftbox, 13 nobib, 13 noprelim, 13 simpleref, 13 year of graduation, 9 references, 15 APA style, 13, 15 author-year style, 13, 15 single list, 12, 15 signature lines, 13

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