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Clean Thesis

Ricardo Langner's Clean Thesis, a clean, simple, elegant thesis design on KOMA-Script scrreprt, via the cleanthesis package from TeX Live.

LPPL 1.3 (cleanthesis package)

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This workspace is set up with the Clean Thesis style, a clean and elegant thesis design, with a title page, abstract, acknowledgments, and two starter chapters. Tell me your topic and university details and I will fill them in and start drafting with you.

What’s inside

  • Starter files
  • main.tex2.5 KB
    \documentclass[paper=A4,twoside=true,openright,parskip=half,11pt,
        headings=normal,bibliography=totoc,listof=totoc,titlepage=on,
        captions=tableabove,chapterprefix=false]{scrreprt}
    
    \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
    \usepackage[english]{babel}
    \usepackage{amsmath}
    \usepackage{booktabs}
    \usepackage[numbers]{natbib}% load before cleanthesis (which loads hyperref)
    
    \PassOptionsToPackage{
        figuresep=colon,
        sansserif=false,
        colorize=full,
        colortheme=bluemagenta,
        configurebiblatex=false,
        bibfile=references,
    }{cleanthesis}
    \usepackage{cleanthesis}
    
    \newcommand{\thesisTitle}{A Clean Thesis}
    \newcommand{\thesisName}{Your Name}
    \newcommand{\thesisUniversity}{University Name}
    \newcommand{\thesisDepartment}{Department Name}
    
    \hypersetup{pdftitle={\thesisTitle},pdfauthor={\thesisName}}
    
    \begin{document}
    
    \pagenumbering{roman}
    \pagestyle{empty}
    
    \begin{titlepage}
        \centering
        \vspace*{2cm}
        {\Large \thesisUniversity} \\[2mm]
        \textsf{\thesisDepartment}
        \vfill
        {\LARGE \color{ctcolortitle}\textbf{\thesisTitle}} \\[10mm]
        {\Large \thesisName}
        \vfill
        A thesis submitted for the degree of \\ Doctor of Philosophy \\[8mm]
        \today
    \end{titlepage}
    \cleardoublepage
    
    \pagestyle{plain}
    
    \chapter*{Abstract}
    Replace this paragraph with a short abstract. This template uses the Clean
    Thesis style by Ricardo Langner: a clean, simple, elegant design for thesis
    documents on the KOMA-Script report class.
    \cleardoublepage
    
    \chapter*{Acknowledgments}
    Thank the people and funding sources that made the work possible. Replace
    this placeholder with your own acknowledgments.
    \cleardoublepage
    
    \tableofcontents
    \cleardoublepage
    
    \pagenumbering{arabic}
    \setcounter{page}{1}
    \pagestyle{scrheadings}
    
    \chapter{Introduction}
    
    State the problem the thesis addresses and why it matters. Citations use
    natbib with bibtex~\cite{langner2015}. A display equation:
    \begin{equation}
      \nabla \cdot \mathbf{E} = \frac{\rho}{\varepsilon_0} .
    \end{equation}
    
    \chapter{Results}
    
    A small table set with booktabs:
    
    \begin{table}[ht]
      \centering
      \begin{tabular}{lrr}
        \toprule
        Case & $n$ & Outcome \\
        \midrule
        A & 12 & 0.84 \\
        B & 31 & 0.91 \\
        \bottomrule
      \end{tabular}
      \caption{Summary of results.}
      \label{tab:results}
    \end{table}
    
    To continue, replace these chapters with your own material, or ask the agent
    in the chat alongside this document to draft sections or restructure the
    thesis for you.
    
    \bibliographystyle{plainnat}
    \bibliography{references}
    
    \end{document}
    
  • Libraries and docs
  • references.bib210 B
    @misc{langner2015,
      author       = {Langner, Ricardo},
      title        = {Clean Thesis -- A LaTeX Style for Thesis Documents},
      howpublished = {\url{http://cleanthesis.der-ric.de/}},
      year         = {2015}
    }
    
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