A LaTeX template for thesis, dissertations and similar monograph-like documents
If you opt for using this project, please give it a star by clicking the (⭐️) at the top right of the project’s page at GitHub.
The “novathesis” LaTeX template is an Open Source project for writing thesis, dissertations, and other monograph-like documents, which…
This work is licensed under the LaTeX Project Public License v1.3c. To view a copy of this license, visit the LaTeX project public license.
See below for alternatives to a local LaTeX installation
See “minimal installation” for instructions on how to build/use a minimal installation of LaTeX (<100 MB vs. 5GB for tex-live), which is just enough to compile the template successfully
biber
and not bibtex
to process the bibliography, which means that most probably you have to open the Editor Preferences and somehwere (depends on the Editor) chage bibtex
to biber
.template.pdf
”, which you may open with your favorite PDF viewer.File | Contents |
---|---|
0_memoir.tex |
Options specific for the memoir package. Don’t touch this file unless you know what you are doing! |
1_novathesis.tex |
Configure the template, i.e., the document type, the school, etc. |
2_biblatex.tex |
Configure the bibliography. |
3_cover.tex |
Configure cover contents (e.g., author’s name, thesis/dissertation title, advisers, committee, etc) |
4_files.tex |
Configure the the files for chapters, appendices, annexes, etc… |
5_packages.tex |
Configure additional packages and commands |
6_list_of.tex |
Configure the lists to be printed (table of contents, list of figures, list of tables, list of listings, etc). Don’t touch this file unless you know what you are doing! |
9_nova_fct.tex |
Configuration specific to nova/fct |
9_nova_ims.tex |
Configuration specific to nova/ims |
9_nova_itqb.tex |
Configuration specific to nova/itqb |
9_ulisboa_fmv.tex |
Configuration specific to ulisboa/fmv |
9_uminho.tex |
Configuration specific to uminho (all schools) |
See above for using a local installation of LaTeX
NOVAthesis v6.5.3 is available as an Overleaf template. Just select open as template and follow from step 3 above!
Check the wiki and have some hope! :smile:
If you couldn’t find what you were looking for, ask for help in:
The GitHub Discussions page and the Facebook page are the right places to ask for help and support! Please don’t try to contact me directly for questions or support, by email or any other channel! I will not answer such requests…
This template is the result of hundreds (yes! hundreds) of hours of work from the main developer. If you use this template, please be kind and give something back by choosing at least one of the following:
Cite the NOVAthesis manual in your thesis/dissertation. Just use \cite{novathesis-manual}
(the correct bibliographic reference, as shown below, will be added automatically).
@Manual{novathesis-manual,
title = "{The NOVAthesis Template User's Manual}",
author = "João M. Lourenço",
organization = "NOVA University Lisbon",
year = "2021",
url = "https://github.com/joaomlourenco/novathesis/raw/master/template.pdf",
}
Make a small donation. We will keep a list thanking to all the identified donors that identify themselves in the “Add special instructions to the seller:” box.
Give the NOVAthesis project a star in GitHub by clicking in the star at the top-right of the project’s home page.
Although the template goes far beyond the cover… some covers from the supported schools are is display below.
These are not official templates for FCT-NOVA nor any other School, although we have done our best to make it fully compliant to each School regulations for thesis/dissertation presentation.
All contributors, both sporadic and regular, are welcome. :) Please contact me to join the team.
If you are here looking for the (deprecated) Word templates (not maintained anymore), please go to this other repository.