Often universities provide official LaTeX templates for PhD theses. If your university doesn’t, here is a template. The template includes the most common elements of a thesis title page:
- University’s or institute’s logo
- Thesis title
- Author’s name
- Degree the thesis is submitted for
- Submission date
\documentclass[12pt, oneside]{book}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
%titlepage
\thispagestyle{empty}
\begin{center}
\begin{minipage}{0.75\linewidth}
\centering
%University logo
%\includegraphics[width=0.3\linewidth]{logo.pdf}
\rule{0.4\linewidth}{0.15\linewidth}\par
\vspace{3cm}
%Thesis title
{\uppercase{\Large the title of my thesis project which may span multiple lines\par}}
\vspace{3cm}
%Author's name
{\Large Author Name\par}
\vspace{3cm}
%Degree
{\Large A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy\par}
\vspace{3cm}
%Date
{\Large May 2014}
\end{minipage}
\end{center}
\clearpage
\end{document}
A few remarks
The template may have to be adapted, as it most likely won’t fulfil your university’s or institute’s official thesis guidelines.
If the official guidelines do not explicitly state it, do not use more than two different font sizes. In the template, I used the same font size throughout the title page (\Large).
To center content of the title page and still use twoside-margins for the thesis, use the geometry package:
\documentclass[12pt, oneside]{book}
\usepackage{geometry}
\begin{document}
% Oneside titlepage
\newgeometry{twoside}
% Twoside thesis content
\end{document}
Tom, do you know how I can make the page numbers in an index to be hyperlinks please? I haven’t found any way of doing it online.
Just use the
linktoc=alloption when you load the hyperref package.\documentclass[11pt]{article} \usepackage[linktoc=all]{hyperref} \usepackage{blindtext} \begin{document} \tableofcontents \blinddocument \end{document}I’ve tried it but it didn’t work, FYI this is the relevant part of my file header –
\pagestyle{fancy} \usepackage[colorlinks=true,linkcolor=blue]{hyperref} \usepackage[linktoc=all]{hyperref} \tolerance=1000 \usepackage{imakeidx} \makeindex[options=-s ./index.ist,columnseprule,intoc]%robustindex % Indexing \usepackage[backend=biber,style=verbose,style=numeric]{biblatex}There is no change at all in the index page, unfortunately! 🙁
You load the
hyperrefpackage twice with different options. Use this instead:\usepackage[linktoc=all,colorlinks=true,linkcolor=blue]{hyperref}Also,
hyperrefhas to be the last package loaded (exceptions).Finally, always typeset twice for changes to appear in the TOC.
sorted by using
\usepackage[colorlinks=true,linkcolor=blue,linktoc=all,hyperindex=true]{hyperref}Great to hear, thanks!
Hello Tom, I like how your template looks so clean and simple. Do you think it is wise to use the “titlepage” environment for a title? It is used in the Wikibook about LaTeX (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Title_Creation).
Hi Micha,
Thanks for the positive feedback! Personally, I’ve never used the
titlepageenvironment,\maketitlehas done the job so far. You may want to take a look at the discussion on the topic here to decide what’s your best choice…Best, Tom
I have really liked the templete. Can you please tell me where should I put the logo if I also want to mention the name of the university in the title page?
Personally, I’d place the university name right before the year and keep the logo on top. There might be guidelines of your school defining the order.
Hi Tom,
Thanks for the template!
It seems that newgeometry does not work with version 4 of the geometry package. Is there another possibility to get the twoside margins?
Hi Kate,
Interesting question. You could either update your version of geometry,
\newgeometrywas introduced in version 5, or use the gmeometric package instead.Nice, simple, clean template. Thanks for sharing. Unfortunately, when I use this, it adds page numbers (which I do not want) and also includes a blank first page.
I have to use this as my preamble.
If I do not comment out the first line, it does no compile
%\documentclass[12pt, oneside]{book} %\documentclass{article} \documentclass{book} \usepackage{graphicx} \begin{document}How can I remove the page numbers and the blank first page.
Thank you!
Hi there!
To switch pages number off, use:
%Deactivate page numbering: \pagenumbering{gobble} %Reactivate again \pagenumbering{arabic} % To deactivate header/footer for a single page, e.g. title page \thispagestyle{empty}Hi Tom
Is it possible to have two logos side by side on the cover page (joint phd and both univversities’ logos must appear). Any idea how I can implement this?
Hi Michael,
Try the minipage environment as shown below. If this doesn’t work, please provide a minimal working example. Thanks, Tom.
\begin{minipage}{0.45\linewidth} \centering \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{logo1} \end{minipage} \begin{minipage}{0.45\linewidth} \centering \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{logo2} \end{minipage}Thanks Tom for the Template
If the titlepage has different margin settings, which is quite often the case, i tend to recommend to include the titlepage as a standalone document with includepdf from pdfpages. A titlepage doesn’t change every few minutes and is quite static. Clompetely avoiding the newgeometry stuff.
Thanks for your comment. I agree, that’s a neat way of keeping the
titlepageseparated from the rest of the document. Best, Tom.Sir
Please tell me how to write 4 to 5 authors in title page of a report?
You can use the
authormacro as shown in the minimal working example below.\documentclass[11pt]{report} \begin{document} \title{Some Title} \author{First Author, Second Author, Third Author, and Fourth Author} \maketitle \end{document}Depending on how you want your complete author section output, there might be better ways. In some cases, it is even more painless to do the titlepage by hand.