spim-phdthesisthemes

LaTeX classes, packages and configuration files for typesetting a PhD dissertation following the SPIM doctoral school template and recommandations.

Built on the powerful TeX-UPmethodology suite, it provides a professional, ready-to-use structure with advanced formatting macros.

These classes packages and configuration files could be easily extended and adapted to the style for your own institution.

spim-phdthesisthemes is part of the larger project TeX-templates.

1. Features

• Front page: Automatically generates the title page with:
  • Thesis title, author, submission date
  • Jury members (supervisors, reviewers, examiners)
  • Institutional logos
• Bilingual abstracts & keywords: French and English versions
• Complete lists: Table of contents, list of figures, list of tables, list of definitions
• Structured chapters: Optional lettrine (dropped capital) and local table of contents per chapter
• Specialised environments: Definitions, theorems, research questions, objectives, contributions
• Advanced tables & figures: Full caption support and source references
• Inline enumerations: Compact lists within paragraphs
• Customised description lists: Flexible key‑value labelling
• Bibliographies: Two separate bibliographies (general and personal, e.g. own publications)

1. Requirements

• A recent TeX distribution (TeX Live 2020 or later, MiKTeX)
• The following classes and packages (automatically installed by most distributions):
  • TeX-UPmethodology, also available on CTAN as 'upmethodology'.
  • Standard LaTeX packages (e.g. babel, graphicx, geometry, tocloft, etc.)

1. Download

The package is available for downloading from the official webpage.

1. Documentation & Tutorial

A complete tutorial with step‑by‑step examples is available at https://www.arakhne.org/latex/tex-templates/phddissertationtutorial.html

1. Licenses

• All LaTeX source code (everything in the tex/ and doc/ directories) is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0.
• The university and institution logos (in the logos/ directory) are not free software. They are included with permission of the university and institution and may be redistributed unchanged, but may not be modified. See logos/LICENSE.logos for details.