Template for ME, MSc, and PhD theses submitted to Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore.
This template was originally published on ShareLaTeX and subsequently moved to Overleaf in November 2019.
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\title{HOW TO TYPESET THESES\\
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\author{My Name Here}
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\submitdate{DECEMBER 2003}
\dept{Computer Science and Automation}
\enggfaculty
%\degreein{Computer Science and Engineering}
%\mscengg
%\me
\iisclogotrue % Default is false
% \figurespagefalse %default is true
\tablespagetrue %default is false
\maketitle
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% COPYRIGHT %
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\begin{dedication}
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TO \\[2em]
\large\it Donald Knuth\\
and\\
\large\it His Ingenuity
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\acknowledgements
Many thanks to all the persons who made this style file. It will certainly
live long! Detailed acknowledgements are available within the style file itself.
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\vita
IISc was born in 1909 and will celebrate its centenary with great fanfare
in the year 2008.
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\publications
\begin{enumerate}
\item IISc INDEST Committee, How to Typeset Theses:~Using iiscthesis
style for \LaTeX, Indian Institute of Science, 2004.
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\sl
This manual tells you how to use the {\tt iiscthes} style to
produce professional theses (Ph.D., M.Sc.(Engg) or M.E. reports).
This style is a modification of the standard \LaTeX\ report style.
This document is written using the {\tt iiscthes} style itself.
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\keywords
{\large\bf{
LaTeX, thesis, project report, IISc style, style file.
}}
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\noindent
Note:~Kindly provide a standard classification for keywords, such as,
ACM Computing Classification, JEL Classification, AMS Classification etc.
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\notations
No notation is used in this document. No abbreviations have been
used either.
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\chapter{Introduction}
\section{What is this style?}
With the advent of modern typesetting systems like \LaTeX \cite{latex},
writing a document has become child's play. To make it an infant's
play, this style is designed. This style modifies the standard
\LaTeX\ report style to make it useful for theses.
It sets appropriate margins and interline spacings. It facilitates
creation of additional sections before normal chapters (like
acknowledgements, abstract, notation etc.) and includes titles of
these sections in the table of contents. It creates a titlepage which
includes the logo of I.I.Sc. It defines certain additional macros to enable
fine tuning.
This document assumes a basic knowledge of \LaTeX \cite{latex}. To use
this style, you should study the \LaTeX\ code of this manual along with
the manual.
Currently, the authorities of I.I.Sc. do not specify any
standard for typesetting a thesis. This style is supposed to introduce
a standard for I.I.Sc. theses.
\section{Organization of this manual}
The next chapter of this manual tells how to create the
titlepage with the I.I.Sc. logo and the front matter
which comes before the regular chapters of a thesis. The third
chapter explains the default page layout and interline spacing.
The fourth one describes additional macros defined in this style which
are useful for fine tuning. Finally, appendix A tells you how and where
to place an appendix.
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\chapter{Title page and Front Matter}
\section{The Title Page}
\index{Title page}The following macros define what goes in the titlepage.
\begin{description}
\item \verb|\title{|{\em thesis title}\verb|}| \\
- You may specify the line break using \verb|\\| .
\item \verb|\author{|{\em author's name}\verb|}| \\
- I am sure you won't forget this!
\item \verb|\dept{|{\em author's department}\verb|}| \\
- Computer Science and Automation by default.
\item \verb|\enggfaculty| \\
- or \verb|\sciencefaculty| (\verb|\enggfaculty| by default).
\item \verb|\phd| \\
- or \verb|\mscengg| or \verb|\meoneandhalf| or \verb|\meintegrated|)
(\verb|\phd| by default)
\item \verb|\submitdate{|{\em month year in which submitted}\verb|}| \\
- Current month and year by default.
\item \verb|\iisclogotrue| or \verb|\iisclogofalse| \\
- \index{I.I.Sc. logo}produce or don't produce the IIsc emblem.
(false by default) \\
\end{description}
The command \verb|\maketitle| produces the titlepage which
includes the information defined by the above macros.
\section{The front matter}
\index{Front matter} \index{Preface Section}The frontmatter
environment encloses the pages which are normally numbered using roman
numbers.
The following commands control what goes in the front matter
material:
\begin{description}
\item \verb|\prefacesection{|{\em section title}\verb|}| \\
- Defines a special section such as an abstract, a preface or
background in the frontmatter. Three sections which are often used,
can be defined as below.
\item \verb|\acknowledgements| \\
- Defines an acknowledgements section.
\item \verb|\vita| \\
- Defines a personal vita section.
\item \verb|\publications| \\
- Defines a publications section. A list of publications
based on the author's thesis can be placed here.
\item \verb|\keywords| \\
- Defines a keywords section. The keywords should be clssified using
one of the standard classification schemes, such as ACM Computing
Classification, JEL Classification (Economics related),
AMS Classifcation (Mathematics related), etc. You could choose to
include a {\bf glossary} as an appendix.
\item \verb|\notations| \\
- Defines a notations and abbreviations section.
\item \verb|\figurespagetrue| or \verb|\figurespagefalse| \\
- produce or don't produce a List of Figures page
(true by default)
\item \verb|\tablespagetrue| or \verb|\tablespagefalse| \\
- produce or don't produce a List of Tables page
(false by default)
\item \verb|\makecontents| \\
- produces the table of contents,
tables and figures. Creation of the last two tables depends on the
above two declarations.
\item \verb|\begin{dedication}| \ldots \verb|\end{dedication}|
\\
- environment for producing a dedication page.
\end{description}
\index{Abstract}You may put an abstract in the front matter using the
\verb|\prefacesection{Abstract}|.
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\chapter{Page Layout and Line Spacing}
\section{Default page layout}
The current page layout is as follows:
\bigskip
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{|ll|}
\hline
textwidth:& 450pt (approx.\ 16cm) \\
textheight:& 635pt (approx.\ 8.8cm) \\
side margins:& 3.5cm \\
headsep:& 40pt\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\bigskip
This makes full use of the available paper. So do not increase any of
the dimensions. If you desire, you may decrease them.
{\bf Note:} This layout assumes that the thesis will be
printed on an A4 size paper. When you xerox it on thesis size
paper, make sure that the right edges of the originals match with the
right edges of the thesis size paper, so that you get the
necessary extra space towards left for binding.
\section{Line spacing}
\index{Line spacing}Double spacing is used by default.
Default spacing can be changed by the command \verb|\setstretch| which
takes the spacing as its argument. (The default is
\verb|\setstretch{1.5}|.) Unfortunately, that command probably won't
take effect unless it comes before the \verb|\begin{document}|.
Additional points regarding ``double spacing'':
\begin{enumerate}
\item New environments ``singlespace'', ``onehalfspace'' and
``doublespace'' are provided, within which single, onehalf and double
spacing will apply.
\item Double spacing is turned off within table of contents,
footnotes and floats (figures and tables).
\item Proper double spacing happens below tabular environments and in other
places where \LaTeX\ uses a strut.
\item Slightly more space is inserted before footnotes.
\item Fixes spacing before and after displayed math.
\end{enumerate}
\bigskip
\hrule
\begin{singlespace}
This is a sample single spaced text created using the
\verb|singlespace| environment. Would you prefer this or
the default double spaced one? You can have intermediate effect by
\verb|\setstretch{1.3}|.
\end{singlespace}
\medskip
\hrule
\bigskip
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\chapter{Fine Tuning}
IISc thesis style defines the following macros to fine tune the
typesetting according to your taste.
\section{Renaming bibliography}
Use \verb|\bibtitle{References}| to get ``References'' (or
whatever argument you give) as the heading for the Bibliography
section. ``Bibliography'' is the default.
\section{Index}
\index{Index}To produce an index for your thesis, mark index
entries in the text by using \verb|\index| command. Then run {\tt
makeindex} like {\tt bibtex} after the first pass of \LaTeX. This will
produce a file {\tt jobname.ind} which will get included automatically
in the subsequent passes. If you do not run makeindex, no index gets
created. For more details see the \LaTeX\ book \cite{latex}and {\tt makeindex}
documentation.
\section{Page Headings}
\index{page headings}Now you can have page headings in
boldface instead of slanted and upper-cased chapter/section headings. It
also underlines the headings as in the \LaTeX\ book \cite{latex}. See the heading
on this page. To use this feature, place \verb|\pagestyle{bfheadings}| in your
preamble.
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\chapter{Conclusions}
IISc thesis style provides a simple way to typeset
theses in an excellent and pleasant manner. Its use is highly recommended.
Additions or modifications are most welcome. Send them (and the bug reports) to
\begin{center}
The Almighty\\
$<$almighty@admin.iisc.ernet.in$>$
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\appendix
\chapter{My Appendix}
Bibliography commands as in the LaTeX book \cite{latex} may be used. For more details
on LaTeX, please see \cite{latex}.
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% Bibliography or References
\bibtitle{References}
\begin{thebibliography}{99}
\bibitem{latex}
Lamport, L. LaTeX:~A Documentation System, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1986.
\end{thebibliography}
\end{document}