PhD Thesis Template VUB
Auteur
Elias Saerens
Last Updated
il y a 3 ans
License
LaTeX Project Public License 1.3c
Résumé
A template for writing a PhD thesis with the title page style of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
% Template made by Elias Saerens
\documentclass[english,BCOR=5mm,DIV=12,fontsize=10pt]{book}
%\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\rmdefault} %Sans fonts
%\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\rmdefault} %Roman fonts
\usepackage{xcolor,colortbl}
\usepackage [english]{babel}
\definecolor{VUB_blauw}{rgb}{0.1529, 0.2667, 0.5529}
\definecolor{vuboranje}{cmyk}{0,.78,1.,0}
\definecolor{vubbleu}{cmyk}{1,.8,.16,.03}
%\usepackage[Bjornstrup]{fncychap}
\usepackage[Lenny]{fncychap}
\ChNameVar{\Huge\selectfont\color{black}}% Chapter text
\ChNumVar{\fontsize{60}{62}\usefont{OT1}{pzc}{m}{n}\selectfont\color{vuboranje}}% Chapter Number
\ChTitleVar{\Huge\bfseries\selectfont\color{vubbleu}}% Chapter Title
% On local engines (so not on overleaf) it can be that the document doesn't compile, to solve this, comment the following lines (the ones of xpatch)
\usepackage{xpatch} %This makes the right side of the chapter square also black
\xpatchcmd\DOCH
{\mghrulefill}{\color{black}\mghrulefill}
{}{\PatchFailed}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
%\usepackage[paperwidth=17cm,paperheight=24cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{graphics} % for pdf, bitmapped graphics files
\usepackage{epsfig} % for postscript graphics files
\usepackage{mathptmx} % assumes new font selection scheme installed
\usepackage{times} % assumes new font selection scheme installed
\usepackage{amsmath} % assumes amsmath package installed
\usepackage{amssymb} % assumes amsmath package installed
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{todonotes}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{subfig}
\usepackage{vub}
\usepackage[noadjust]{cite}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\renewcommand{\citedash}{--}
\usepackage [autostyle, english = british]{csquotes}
\MakeOuterQuote{"}
\usepackage[justification=justified,format=plain]{caption} %For left alignment
%\usepackage[justification=centering]{caption} %For centered alignment
\usepackage[document]{ragged2e} %voor de justification
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{dblfloatfix}
\newcolumntype{+}{>{\global\let\currentrowstyle\relax}}
\newcolumntype{^}{>{\currentrowstyle}}
\newcommand{\rowstyle}[1]{\gdef\currentrowstyle{#1}%
#1\ignorespaces
}
\newcommand{\myfootnote}[1]{
\renewcommand{\thefootnote}{}
\footnotetext{\hspace{-16.5pt}\scriptsize#1}
\renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\arabic{footnote}}
}
\newcommand\alternativefootnote[1]{%
\tikz[remember picture,overlay]
\draw (current page.south west) +(1in + \oddsidemargin,6.5em)
node[anchor=south west,inner sep=0pt]{\parbox{\textwidth}{%
\rlap{\rule{18.2em}{1.0pt}}\raggedright\scriptsize#1}};}
\title{Title of PhD}
\author{\textbf{Your Name}}
\faculty{Faculty of ...\\
Department of ...}
\promotors{Prof. Dr. ir. ?}
\copromotors{Prof. Dr. ir ?}
\chairman{Prof. Dr. ir. ?}
\vicechairman{Prof. Dr. ir. ?}
\secretary{Dr. ir. ?}
\jury{Random dude (university somewhere)}
\pretitle{Thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the degree of Doctor of ... (Doctor in de ...)}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\def\triangleH{27.7mm}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\thispagestyle{empty}
\pagenumbering{roman}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ACKNOWLEDGEMENT %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\input{Extra/acknowledgement}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ABSTRACT %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\input{Extra/abstract}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\input{Extra/abbreviations}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% LIST OF SYMBOLS %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\input{Extra/nomenclaturechapter}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% TABLE OF CONTENTS %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\tableofcontents
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% INTRODUCTION %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\clearpage
\justifying
\pagenumbering{arabic}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% INTRODUCTION %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\chapter{Introduction}
\label{ch:introduction}
\input{Introduction/Overview}
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\part{First Part}
\label{part:first}
%%%%%%%%%%%%% CH1: FIRST CHAPTER %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\chapter{First real chapter}
\label{ch:1}
\input{First_part/Chapter_1/overview}
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\part{Part two}
\label{part:2}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% CH2: SECOND CHAPTER %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\chapter{Second chapter}
\label{ch:2}
\input{First_part/Chapter_2/overview}
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\part{Conclusion}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% CH3: CONCLUSION %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\input{Conclusion.tex}
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%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% APPENDIX %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\appendix
\input{Appendix/Publications.tex}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% BIBLIOGRAPHY %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\nocite{*} %shows all sources without having to use \cite{}
\bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}
\bibliography{references}
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\end{document}