Oxford Thesis (OxThesis)

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• Starter files
• main.tex2.2 KB

  \documentclass[a4paper,twoside]{ociamthesis}
  
  \usepackage{tikz}
  
  % University crest placeholder: replace with your college's crest graphic,
  % or delete the two title-page \crest lines in ociamthesis.cls usage.
  \renewcommand{\crest}{%
    \begin{tikzpicture}
      \draw[thick] (0,0) circle (1.6cm);
      \node[align=center,font=\small] at (0,0) {University\\crest};
    \end{tikzpicture}}
  
  \title{A Suitably Impressive Thesis Title}
  \author{Your Name}
  \college{Your College}
  \degree{Doctor of Philosophy}
  \degreedate{Trinity 2026}
  
  \begin{document}
  
  \setlength{\textbaselineskip}{22pt plus2pt}
  \setlength{\frontmatterbaselineskip}{17pt plus1pt minus1pt}
  \setlength{\baselineskip}{\textbaselineskip}
  
  \begin{romanpages}
  
  \maketitle
  
  \begin{acknowledgements}
  Thank the people and funding sources that made the work possible. Replace
  this placeholder with your own acknowledgments.
  \end{acknowledgements}
  
  \begin{abstract}
  Replace this paragraph with the abstract of your thesis. The OxThesis
  class sets the Oxford-style title page, frontmatter, and chapter openings
  with quotations.
  \end{abstract}
  
  \flushbottom
  \tableofcontents
  
  \end{romanpages}
  
  \flushbottom
  
  \begin{savequote}[8cm]
  An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a
  very narrow field.
  \qauthor{--- Niels Bohr}
  \end{savequote}
  
  \chapter{Introduction}
  
  State the problem the thesis addresses and why it matters. Each chapter can
  open with a quotation in the margin column via the \texttt{savequote}
  environment. Citations use bibtex~\cite{berlin1953}. A display equation:
  \begin{equation}
    i\hbar\,\frac{\partial\psi}{\partial t} = \hat{H}\psi .
  \end{equation}
  
  \chapter{Literature Review}
  
  A small table set with booktabs (loaded by the class):
  
  \begin{table}[ht]
    \centering
    \begin{tabular}{lrr}
      \toprule
      Study & Year & Sample \\
      \midrule
      Alpha & 2019 & 240 \\
      Beta  & 2023 & 512 \\
      \bottomrule
    \end{tabular}
    \caption{Prior work at a glance.}
    \label{tab:prior}
  \end{table}
  
  To continue, replace these chapters with your own material, or ask the agent
  in the chat alongside this document to draft chapters or restructure the
  thesis for you.
  
  \setlength{\baselineskip}{14pt}
  \bibliographystyle{unsrt}
  \bibliography{references}
  
  \end{document}
  

• Libraries and docs
• ociamthesis.cls13 KB

  % ociamthesis
  % 
  % Originally by Keith A. Gillow (gillow@maths.ox.ac.uk), 1997
  % Modified by Sam Evans (sam@samuelevansresearch.org), 2007
  % Modified by John McManigle (john@oxfordechoes.com), 2015
  %
  % This version Copyright (c) 2015-2017 John McManigle
  %
  % Broad permissions are granted to use, modify, and distribute this software
  % as specified in the MIT License included in this distribution's LICENSE file.
  %
  %
  %-------------------------- identification ---------------------
  \NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
  \ProvidesClass{ociamthesis}[2015/04/30 Oxford thesis class]
  %-------------------------- initial code -----------------------
  
  % JEM: Defaults to one-side, but passing 'twoside' should set everything up for that
  \LoadClass[openright,12pt]{report}
  
  \newif\ifmc@nobind
  \mc@nobindfalse
  
  \DeclareOption{nobind}{\mc@nobindtrue}
  \DeclareOption*{\PassOptionsToClass{\CurrentOption}{report}}
  \ProcessOptions\relax
  
  \setlength{\parskip}{0pt plus 1pt}
  \setlength{\parfillskip}{0pt plus .7\textwidth}
  
  % JEM: Lengths for single spacing (ie separate abstract, captions), front matter (abstract,
  %   acknowledgements, table of contents, etc), and main body text.
  \newlength{\singlebaselineskip}
  \newlength{\frontmatterbaselineskip}
  \newlength{\textbaselineskip}
  
  \setlength{\singlebaselineskip}{\baselineskip}
  \setlength{\frontmatterbaselineskip}{17pt plus1pt minus1pt}
  \setlength{\textbaselineskip}{22pt plus2pt}
  
  \newcommand{\submittedtext}{{A thesis submitted for the degree of}}
  \usepackage{varwidth}
  \newcommand{\originalitytext}{%
     \rule[-2mm]{1pt}{7mm}\hspace{-1pt}%
     \rule[-2mm]{7mm}{1pt}\hspace{-1pt}%
     \rule[-2mm]{1pt}{7mm}\hspace{-7mm}%
     \rule[5mm]{7mm}{1pt}\hspace{1em}%
     \begin{varwidth}{\textwidth}I hereby certify that this is entirely\\my own work unless otherwise stated.\end{varwidth}}
  
  %
  % DECLARATIONS
  %
  % These macros are used to declare arguments needed for the
  % construction of the title page and other preamble.
  
  % The year and term the degree will be officially conferred
  \def\degreedate#1{\gdef\@degreedate{#1}}
  % The full (unabbreviated) name of the degree
  \def\degree#1{\gdef\@degree{#1}}
  % The name of your Oxford college (eg Christ Church, Pembroke)
  \def\college#1{\gdef\@college{#1}}
  % Your candidate number (ie for master's submissions)
  \def\candidateno#1{\gdef\@candidateno{#1}}
  % Your word count (for master's submissions)
  \def\wordcount#1{\gdef\@wordcount{#1}}
  \newif\ifmasterssubmission
  % adds candidate number and word count in place of name and college
  \masterssubmissionfalse
  
  
  %
  % CRESTS
  %
  
  \def\crest{{\includegraphics{figures/beltcrest.pdf}}}
  
  
  %
  % Define text area of page and margin offsets
  %
  
  \ifmc@nobind
  \usepackage[includehead,hmargin={3.1cm, 3.1cm}, vmargin={2.5cm,2.7cm}, headsep=.8cm,footskip=1.2cm]{geometry}
  \else
  \usepackage[includehead,hmargin={3.6cm, 2.6cm}, vmargin={2.5cm,2.7cm}, headsep=.8cm,footskip=1.2cm]{geometry}
  \fi
  
  \usepackage{xcolor}
  \usepackage{graphicx} 
  
  \usepackage{fancyhdr}
  \setlength{\headheight}{15pt}
  \fancyhf{} % clear the header and footers
  \pagestyle{fancy}
  \renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{\markboth{\thechapter. #1}{\thechapter. #1}}
  \renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]{\markright{\thesection. #1}} 
  \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
  \fancyhead[LO]{\emph{\leftmark}} 
  \fancyhead[RE]{\emph{\rightmark}} 
  \fancyhead[RO,LE]{\emph{\thepage}}
  
  \fancypagestyle{plain}{\fancyhf{}\fancyfoot[C]{\emph{\thepage}}}
  
  % JEM fix header on cleared pages for openright
  \def\cleardoublepage{\clearpage\if@twoside \ifodd\c@page\else
     \hbox{}
     \fancyhead[RE,LO]{}
     \newpage
     \if@twocolumn\hbox{}\newpage
     \fi
     \fancyhead[LO]{\emph{\leftmark}} 
     \fancyhead[RE]{\emph{\rightmark}} 
     \fi\fi}
  
  
  \usepackage{microtype}
  \usepackage{nicefrac}
  \usepackage{amsmath}
  \usepackage{amssymb}
  \usepackage{textcomp}
  
  \usepackage{longtable} 
  	% Allows tables to span multiple pages (this package must be called before hyperref)
  
  \usepackage[font=small,labelfont=bf]{caption} 
  	% Nicer captions
  
  \usepackage{multicol,multirow,array} 
  	% Used to make multiple columns for the indices and for creating columns that span multiple rows in tables
  
  \usepackage{rotating} 
  	% To allow tables in landscape mode
  
  \usepackage{booktabs} 
  	% For better looking tables
  
  \usepackage{pdfpages} 
  	% Allows multi-page pdfs to be inserted as graphics
  
  \usepackage{xfrac}
  
  %\usepackage{enumerate} 
  	% Allows different numbering styles for Lists
  	% to use:
  	% \begin{enumerate}[x] 
  		% \item text 
  	% \end{enumerate} 
  	% where x is:
  	% A	uppercase letters (as produced by \Alph)
  	% a	lowercase letters (as produced by \alph)
  	% I	uppercase roman numerals (as produced by \Roman)
  	% i	lowercase roman numerals (as produced by \roman)
  	% 1	arabic numbers (as produced by \arabic)
  	
  % JEM the following package allows changing spacing in lists (for acknowledgements)
  \usepackage{enumitem}
  
  % JEM the following allows table columns aligned by decimal point
  \usepackage{dcolumn}
  \newcolumntype{d}[3]{D{.}{\cdot}{#1} }
  
  \usepackage{appendix} 
  	% For helping format appendicies
  \usepackage{notoccite} 
  	% To format the bibliography	
  
  
  \usepackage[colorlinks=false,pdfpagelabels]{hyperref} 
  	% for linking between references, figures, TOC, etc in the pdf document
  
  \usepackage[nohints,tight]{minitoc} 
  	\setcounter{minitocdepth}{2} 
  	% Generates mini tables of contents per chapter
  	
  % JEM: The following fixes minitoc to not be multiple-spaced.
  \let\oldmtc@verse\mtc@verse
  \renewcommand{\mtc@verse}[1]{\oldmtc@verse{#1}\setlength{\baselineskip}{\z@}}
  
  
  %
  % Environments
  %
  
  % This macro define an environment for front matter that is always 
  % single column even in a double-column document.
  
  \newenvironment{alwayssingle}{%
         \@restonecolfalse
         \if@twocolumn\@restonecoltrue\onecolumn
         \else\if@openright\cleardoublepage\else\clearpage\fi
         \fi}%
         {\if@restonecol\twocolumn
         \else\newpage\thispagestyle{empty}\fi}
  
  
  %define title page layout
  
  \renewcommand{\maketitle}{%
  \begin{alwayssingle}\null
      \renewcommand{\footnotesize}{\small}
      \renewcommand{\footnoterule}{\relax}
      \thispagestyle{empty}
  \ifmasterssubmission
    \begin{center}
    \vspace*{-3ex}
      { \LARGE {\bfseries {\@title}} \par}
  {\large \vspace*{25mm} {\crest \par} \vspace*{20mm}}
      {{\Large Candidate no.\ \@candidateno} \par}
  {\large \vspace*{1ex}
      {Word count: {\@wordcount} \par}
  \vspace*{4ex}
      {{\submittedtext} \par}
  \vspace*{1ex}
      {\it {\@degree} \par}
  \vspace*{6ex}
  	{{\originalitytext} \par}
  \vspace*{2ex}
      {\@degreedate}}
    \end{center}
  \else
    \begin{center}
      { \LARGE {\bfseries {\@title}} \par}
  {\large \vspace*{30mm} {\crest \par} \vspace*{25mm}}
      {{\Large \@author} \par}
  {\large \vspace*{1ex}
      {{\@college} \par}
  \vspace*{1ex}
      {University of Oxford \par}
  \vspace*{20mm}
      {{\submittedtext} \par}
  \vspace*{1ex}
      {\it {\@degree} \par}
  \vspace*{2ex}
      {\@degreedate}}
    \end{center}
  \fi
    \vfill\null
  \end{alwayssingle}}
  
  
  
  % DEDICATION
  %
  % The dedication environment makes sure the dedication gets its
  % own page and is set out in verse format.
  
  \newenvironment{dedication}
  {\begin{alwayssingle}
    \thispagestyle{empty}
    \vspace*{\fill} \begin{center}}
  {\end{center}\vspace*{\fill}\vspace*{\fill} \end{alwayssingle}}
  
  
  % ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  %
  % The acknowledgements environment puts a large, bold, centered 
  % "Acknowledgements" label at the top of the page. The acknowledgements
  % themselves appear in a quote environment, i.e. tabbed in at both sides, and
  % on its own page.
  
  \newenvironment{acknowledgements}%
  {   \begin{alwayssingle}\chapter*{Acknowledgements}
      \thispagestyle{empty}
  	\pagestyle{empty}
  	\setlength{\baselineskip}{\frontmatterbaselineskip}
  }
  {\end{alwayssingle}}
  
  
  %ABSTRACT
  %
  %The abstract environment puts a large, bold, centered "Abstract" label at
  %the top of the page. The abstract itself appears in a quote environment,
  %i.e. tabbed in at both sides, and on its own page.
  
  \renewenvironment{abstract}%
  {   \begin{alwayssingle}\chapter*{Abstract}
      \thispagestyle{empty}
      \pagestyle{empty}
     \setlength{\baselineskip}{\frontmatterbaselineskip}}
  {\end{alwayssingle}}
  
  %The abstractseparate environment is for running of a page with the abstract
  %on including title and author etc as required to be handed in separately
  
  \newenvironment{abstractseparate} {\newgeometry{margin=3.3cm}\thispagestyle{empty}\begin{alwayssingle}
   \begin{center}
      {\Large \bfseries \@title \par}
  \ifmasterssubmission
      {{\large \vspace*{3ex} Candidate no.\ \@candidateno} \par}
  \else
      {{\large \vspace*{2ex} \@author} \par}
  \fi
  {\large \vspace*{1ex}
  \ifmasterssubmission
      {Thesis word count: {\@wordcount} \par}
  \else
      {{\@college} \par}
      {University of Oxford \par}
  \fi
  \vspace*{1ex}
      {{\it \submittedtext} \par}
      {\it {\@degree} \par}
  \vspace*{2ex}
      {\@degreedate} \par}
  \vfill
    {\Large \bfseries  Abstract}
    \end{center}
  \vspace{1ex}
     \setlength{\baselineskip}{\z@}}
  {\vfill\end{alwayssingle}\restoregeometry}
  
  
  %ROMANPAGES
  %
  % The romanpages environment set the page numbering to lowercase roman one
  % for the contents and figures lists. It also resets
  % page-numbering for the remainder of the dissertation (arabic, starting at 1).
  %
  % Edited by JEM
  
  \newenvironment{romanpages}
  {\cleardoublepage\setlength{\baselineskip}{\frontmatterbaselineskip}\setcounter{page}{1}\renewcommand{\thepage}{\roman{page}}}
  {\cleardoublepage\setcounter{page}{1}\renewcommand{\thepage}{\arabic{page}}}
  
  
  %Figure placement on page
  %
  %This is to help prevent too many figures on their own pages.  I got it from:
  % http://dcwww.camd.dtu.dk/~schiotz/comp/LatexTips/LatexTips.html#captfont
  
  \renewcommand{\topfraction}{0.85}
  \renewcommand{\textfraction}{0.1}
  \renewcommand{\floatpagefraction}{0.75}
  
  
  % JEM: VERSE, QUOTATION, and QUOTE must be single-spaced.
  % These rename the internal commands for the \begin{...} and
  % \end{...} environment commands.
  \let\@ldquote=\quote
  \let\@ldendquote=\endquote
  \renewenvironment{quote}
     {\@ldquote\setlength{\baselineskip}{\singlebaselineskip}}
     {\@ldendquote}
  
  \let\@ldqttn=\quotation
  \let\@ldendqttn=\endquotation
  \renewenvironment{quotation}
     {\@ldqttn\setlength{\baselineskip}{\singlebaselineskip}}
     {\@ldendqttn}
  
  \let\@ldverse=\verse
  \let\@ldendverse=\endverse
  \renewenvironment{verse}
     {\@ldverse\setlength{\baselineskip}{\singlebaselineskip}}
     {\@ldendverse}
  
  % JEM: Stuff for List of Abbreviations (or Glossary or other list)
  \usepackage{calc}
  \newcommand{\t@cfill}{\cleaders\hbox{$\m@th \mkern\@dotsep mu . \mkern\@dotsep mu$}\hfill}
  \newcommand{\abbrl@bel}[1]{\makebox[\labelwidth][l]{\textbf{#1}\ \t@cfill}}
  \newenvironment{mclistof}[2]{%
     \chapter*{#1}%
     \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{#1}
     \begin{list}{}%
     {\renewcommand{\makelabel}{\abbrl@bel}%
      \setlength{\labelwidth}{#2}%
      \setlength{\leftmargin}{\labelwidth+\labelsep}%
      \setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}%
      \markboth{#1}{#1}%
     }}
     {\end{list}\mtcaddchapter}
  
  
  \usepackage[grey,utopia]{quotchap} 
  	% To put nice quotes at the beginning of the chapters
  
  \usepackage[nottoc]{tocbibind}
  	% Used for inserting the Bibliography, List of Figures, indices, etc into the table of contents.
  
  % JEM: Allow flexible spacing after figures, to reduce other stretching
  \setlength{\textfloatsep}{20pt plus15pt minus4pt}
  
  % JEM: Fix paragraph spacing within quotes for multi-par quotes
  \renewenvironment{savequote}[1][10cm]{%
  \begin{lrbox}{\@quotebox}
  \begin{minipage}[t]{#1}\footnotesize\slshape%
  \setlength{\parskip}{6pt}}{%
  \unskip\end{minipage}\end{lrbox}
  \global\setbox\@quotebox\copy\@quotebox
  \global\let\@printcites\@iprintcites
  \ignorespacesafterend}
  \renewcommand{\qauthor}[1]{\par
  {\raggedleft\upshape #1\qquad\hbox{}\par}\bigskip}
  
  % JEM: All of this is so that headers in these sections aren't uppercase
  \let\@ldtoc\tableofcontents
  \renewcommand*\tableofcontents{{%
  \renewcommand*\MakeUppercase[1]{##1}\@ldtoc}}
  \let\@ldlof\listoffigures
  \renewcommand*\listoffigures{{%
  \renewcommand*\MakeUppercase[1]{##1}\@ldlof}}
  \let\@ldlot\listoftables
  \renewcommand*\listoftables{{%
  \renewcommand*\MakeUppercase[1]{##1}\@ldlot}}
  \let\@ldbib\bibliography
  \renewcommand*\bibliography[1]{{%
  \renewcommand*\MakeUppercase[1]{##1}\@ldbib{#1}}}
  
  % JEM: for crazy multi character set quotes and Unicode and all
  \usepackage{lmodern}
  \usepackage[LGR,TS1,T1]{fontenc}
  \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
  \usepackage[greek,latin,english]{babel}
  \usepackage{csquotes}
  \hyphenpenalty=500
  \def\longs{{\fontencoding{TS1}\selectfont s}}
  
  % JEM: for highlighting corrections
  \newlength{\mccurrentbaselineskip}
  \newlength{\mccurrentparskip}
  \newlength{\mccurrentparindent}
  \newif\ifcorrections
  \newif\ifm@csection
  \m@csectionfalse
  \correctionsfalse
  
  \colorlet{shadecolor}{blue!20}
  
  \usepackage{framed}
  \OuterFrameSep=-9pt
  \newenvironment{mccorrection}
  {\ifcorrections\if@nobreak\m@csectiontrue\fi\begin{shaded}\ifm@csection\noindent\ignorespaces\fi\fi}
  {\ifcorrections\end{shaded}\m@csectionfalse\ifx\@captype\@undefined\@nobreakfalse\fi\fi}
  
  \usepackage{soul}
  \sethlcolor{shadecolor}
  \newcommand{\mccorrect}[1]{\ifcorrections\hl{#1}\else#1\fi}
  
  
  % JEM: adjust start-of-chapter spacing
  \renewcommand{\chapterheadstartvskip}{\vspace*{40pt}}
  \renewcommand{\chapterheadendvskip}{\vspace{30pt}}
  
  
  % JEM: combine all of the commands you run before appendices start
  \newcommand{\startappendices}
    {\appendix\adjustmtc\noappendicestocpagenum\addappheadtotoc\appendixpage}
  

• references.bib194 B

  @book{berlin1953,
    author    = {Berlin, Isaiah},
    title     = {The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History},
    publisher = {Weidenfeld \& Nicolson},
    year      = {1953}
  }
  

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