This is a LaTeX template based on the University of Oslo (UiO)'s official LaTeX template (~2023) for a master's thesis; but expanded!
To simplify the organization and writing of your thesis from "vanskelig" to "lett", hence the repository name.
It will be written after the 6th of June, 2023, and published shortly after.
- Download the
lett.zip - Login at Overleaf
- Select
New Project/Upload project - Upload the
lett.zip - Start writing!
- Explanations on how to switch from easy-PDF-reading (oneside) to print-as-a-book (twoside),
- Explanations on how to change font-size from normal 11pt to 12pt,
- Setting to set 1.5 in 'linjeavstand',
- Paragraphs instead of indents,
- Single-space at the beginning of sentences:
This is a sentence. This is another one.vs.This is a sentence. This is another one. - Glossaries and Acronyms,
- Appendices,
\authorYear{citationKey}links the year to the bibliography: useful when citing author like "according to Author (Year), blablabla",- Author-year separated by a comma:
this is from a reference (author, year), - Todos with categories for editing,
- Figure Title (not usually needed; caption should be enough): add this inside and below \begin{figure}:
\figuretitle{This Title is necessary}, - Labels for text: If you need to reference text directly, instead of a part, chapter, section etc.,: add label with
\labeltext{see text on \vref{label}}{txt:myLabel}and refer to label with either\cref{txt:myLabel}or\vref{txt:myLabel}, - Preface / acknowledgements add-on: text-box in bottom-right corner; can be changed to bottom left,
\ExternalHref{the_link}{text_shown}creates a link with a blue, link-colored link-symbol; example: 'great song↗️ ',
\renewcommand{\prefacename}{Acknowledgements}
See todos.tex: question, fact-check, confirm, suggestion, reorganize, delete, condense, add, expand, red-thread
You have a .bib-file with sources: probably generated from Zotero. These sources have a key that you can reference them with and looks something like:
@book{yinCaseStudyResearch2018,
location = {Los Angeles},
edition = {Sixth edition},
title = {Case study research and applications: design and methods},
isbn = {978-1-5063-3616-9},
shorttitle = {Case study research and applications},
pagetotal = {319},
publisher = {{SAGE}},
author = {Yin, Robert K.},
date = {2018},
keywords = {Case method, Research Methodology, Social sciences},
}
Here, the key is yinCaseStudyResearch2018.
Use \parencite{key}, \citeauthor{key}, \citeyear{key}, \citeyearpar{key}, \citetitle{key} or if you want to specify a key directly: \citefield{key}{field} where fields can be shorttitle etc.
Example:
According to \citeauthor{yinCaseStudyResearch2018} \citeyearpar{yinCaseStudyResearch2018}, blablabla
% According to Yin (2018), blablabla
Structurre: the thesis is structured in parts, chapters, sections, subsections, subsubsections ...
It can include figures and tables.
The structural elements, figures, and tables can be reffered to in-text by giving them a label:
\label{myLabel}
The label is placed below what is being labeled,
and it is helpful to add a prefix of what's being labelled: prefix:myLabel.
Example:
\part{Introduction}
\label{part:introduction}
As you can see in \cref{part:introduction} ... % in Part #
... which we already discussed in \vref{part:introduction}
% in Part # on page # (or previous page etc depending on where it actually is)
Here we used cref and vref to reference the label. Cref automatically knows that is being referenced: figure, table, part, chapter etc.
and vref adds the page number as well...
Check out how on: https://ftp.fagskolen.gjovik.no/pub/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/glossaries/glossariesbegin.pdf https://ftp.fagskolen.gjovik.no/pub/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/glossaries/glossaries-user.pdf
- Unzip project to make files and folders easily available so people can contribute
- Write about how to sync Overleaf and Zotero with https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/ for generating keys.