LaTeX Style File For Doctoral Thesis

Graduate students wishing to use LaTeX to write their doctoral thesis can use a premade LaTeX style file puthesis. puthesis style has appropriate preset margins, title page and other settings that should help format the thesis.

Where to find puthesis

puthesis style files consist of

puthesis.cls - the actual style file,
puthesis.sample - first sample LaTeX file that shows how to use puthesis.cls,
thesis.tex - second sample LaTeX file.

You should begin by copying at least the puthesis.cls file into the directory where you will be writing your thesis. You can do that by either clicking on puthesis.cls in the above list and downloading the file to appropriate directory, or else copy the file on the Linux/Unix systems from /usr/finehall/tex/puthesis/latest, for example:

cp /usr/finehall/tex/puthesis/latest/puthesis.cls my_thesis_directory/

Please take a look at the two sample files to get an idea on how to use puthesis style, or even better, begin by adapting one of sample files to your needs.