% Montclair State University Master Thesis Template % (c) 2006 Lukasz Grzegorz Maciak \documentclass[12pt]{report} % define your title and author here - this is the only place you will need to do this % title and your name will be automatically placed on the title page, and on the signature page \newcommand{\thesistitle}{Your Thesis Title} \newcommand{\thesisauthor}{Your Name} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % This block makes the figure captions different size than the normal text \newcommand{\captionfonts}{\footnotesize} % you can use \small, \tiny and etc.. % do not touch the code below %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%-DO-NOT-TOUCH-BLOCK-%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \makeatletter % Allow the use of @ in command names \long\def\@makecaption#1#2{% \vskip\abovecaptionskip \sbox\@tempboxa{{\captionfonts #1: #2}}% \ifdim \wd\@tempboxa >\hsize {\captionfonts #1: #2\par} \else \hbox to\hsize{\hfil\box\@tempboxa\hfil}% \fi \vskip\belowcaptionskip} \makeatother % Cancel the effect of \makeatletter \renewcommand{\topfraction}{0.9} \renewcommand{\bottomfraction}{0.8} \setcounter{topnumber}{2} \setcounter{bottomnumber}{2} \setcounter{totalnumber}{4} \setcounter{dbltopnumber}{2} \renewcommand{\dbltopfraction}{0.9} \renewcommand{\textfraction}{0.07} \renewcommand{\floatpagefraction}{0.7} % floatpagefraction MUST be less than topfraction !! \renewcommand{\dblfloatpagefraction}{0.7} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% END OF -DO-NOT-TOUCH- BLOCK %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %\listfiles %lists files called in compiling this document (for debuging only) % PACKAGE DECLARATIONS % Uncomment packages as needed. Only the essential packages were left uncommented %\usepackage{showkeys} %shows label names, etc %\usepackage{axodraw,color} %optional graphics packages \usepackage{epsf,graphicx} %essential graphics packages \usepackage{latexsym,amssymb} %define additional symbols \usepackage{setspace,cite} %double spacing for text, single for captions, footnotes, etc. %\usepackage{mcite} %can find on web. not really recommended %\usepackage{draft} %draft option - doesn't put full figures in - useful when editing \usepackage{fancyhdr} %does the headers on the pages - keep in %\usepackage{makeidx} %in case you have an index too \usepackage{ifthen} %better contitional statements %\makeindex %also needed for an index \usepackage{multicol} %support for for multiple column text \usepackage{appendix} %better handling of appendices \usepackage{moreverb} %verbatim environment that respects tabs (use \begin{verbatimtab}) \usepackage{boxedminipage} %nice text boxes for formulas and algorithms % SETTING UP THE MARGINS % set the margins using the graphics package % note by university standards you need 1" top, right and bottom margins, and 1.5" left margin \usepackage[top=1in, bottom=1in, left=1.5in, right=1in]{geometry} % ALTERNATIVE WAY OF SETTING THE MARGINS % use this if you do not have the geometry package % \textwidth 6in % width 6 in gives you 1 inch margin on both sides (left and right) % \textheight 9in % height 9 in gives you 1 inch margins top and bottom % \oddsidemargin 0.5in % add .5in to the left margin % TIME AND DATE MAGIC % these few lines below set up the date according to MSU submission specifications % you can only submit a thesis in May, August or January. So if it is, say June of 2006 the % template will automatically display your date as June, 2006. If it is December, the template % will display January, 2007 and etc.. % please do not modify this code unless you know what you are doing. If for some reason you need % to specify a certain date uncomment the lines below to set appropriate date, rather than hard-code % the dates on the titlepage: %\month{5} % set month (in numeric format) %\year{2006} % set year \newcounter{theyear} % create a new variable for the current year \setcounter{theyear}{\number\year} % initialize it to the current year % if the submission date falls on January, increment the year \ifthenelse{\number\month > 8}{\addtocounter{theyear}{1}} % a command to display just the current year: \justyear => 2006 \newcommand{\justyear}{ \number\value{theyear}} % a command to display the submission date in a shorthand format: \shorttoday => April, 2006 \newcommand{\shorttoday}{\ifthenelse{\number\month<5}{May, }{\ifthenelse{\number\month <8}{August, }{January, }} \justyear} % BIBLIOGRAPHY % set up BibTeX style to plain. The bibliography is actually imported at the end of this file % you will need to use thesis.bib provided with your document, or create your own \bibliographystyle{IEEEtran} % NUMBERING % By default the subsubsections are not numbered and do not appear is the table of contents. I'm overriding that. % If you don't want them to be numbered, just comment out the two lines below. % Please note that the paragraph are still not numbered. \setcounter{secnumdepth}{3} % number subsubsections \setcounter{tocdepth}{3} % show subsubsections in table of contents % OTHER \newcommand{\vbrk}{\vspace{.2in}} % set up a command that makes a .2in vertical space % redefine the plain page style to move the page numbers % to the bottom right corner as per MSU standards % this will mostly affect the first page of each chapter \fancypagestyle{plain}{% \fancyhf{} % clear all header and footer fields \fancyfoot[R]{\thepage} % insert page number in the right corner \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}} % change the style for all the other pages as per MSU specifications \pagestyle{fancy} \fancyhf{} % clear all header and footer fields \fancyfoot[R]{\thepage} % insert page number in the right corner \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% THE DOCUMENT STARTS HERE %%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{document} \newpage %Puts page numbering of preamble in roman and of main body of thesis in %arabic. Also defines how chapters and sections are made \pagenumbering{arabic} \setcounter{page}{1} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % by Montclair standards a thesis must include: % 1. An Abstract % 2. Thesis Signature Page % 3. Title Page % 4. Copyright Page (if needed) % 5. Acknowledgements (if needed) % 7. Table of Contents % 8. Table of Figures (if needed) % 9. Thesis Text % 10. Bibiliography % 11. Apendices (if needed) % 12. Suplemental Figures (if needed) % in exactly that order. These are defined below. Please note that % YOU DO NOT NEED TO EDIT THE TITLE, SIGNATURE AND COPYRIGHT PAGES!!! % they are generate automatically, and do not need any modification % you do need to modify the avstract, the acknowledgements and etc,,, % ******************************************************************************************************************************** % ******* Title page - DO NOT MODIFY!!!!! **************************************************************************************** % ******************************************************************************************************************************** \newpage \thispagestyle{empty} \vspace*{1in} \begin{center} {\LARGE\bf \uppercase{\textbf{\thesistitle}} \\} \vspace{.5in} {\large A THESIS\\} \vspace{.5in} {\large Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements\\} {\large for the degree of Masters in Computer Science\\} \vspace{1.5in} {\large by\\} \vspace{.5in} {\large \thesisauthor\\} \vspace{.1in} {\large Montclair State University\\} \vspace{.1in} {\large Montclair, NJ\\} \vspace{.1in} {\large \justyear\\} \end{center} \newpage % ******************************************************************************************************************************** % ******* Abstract Page ********************************************************************************************************** % ******************************************************************************************************************************** \begin{abstract} % this is dummy text - please delete Abstract goes here \end{abstract} \singlespacing % ********************************************************************************************************************************** % ********* Signature Page ********************************************************************************************************* % ********************************************************************************************************************************** \newpage \thispagestyle{empty} \begin{center} \large{ MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY \\ \vspace{.3in} \thesistitle \\ \vspace{.1in} by\\ \vspace{.1in} \thesisauthor \\ \vspace{.3in} } A Master's Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of\\ \vspace{.1in} Montclair State University \\ \vspace{.1in} In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements \\ \vspace{.1in} For the Degree of \vspace{.1in} Master of Computer Science \vspace{.2in} \shorttoday \end{center} \vspace{1in} \begin{multicols}{2} \noindent\\ College of Science and Mathematics\\ \noindent\\ Department of Computer Science \\ \vspace{.1in} \noindent \\ Certified by: \\ \vspace{.2in} \noindent \rule{2.5in}{.1mm}\\ Dean of College or School\\ \vspace{.1in} \noindent \rule{2.5in}{.1mm}\\ Date\\ \bigskip{} \noindent\\ Thesis Committee:\\ \vspace{.2in} \noindent \rule{2.5in}{.1mm}\\ Thesis Sponsor\\ \vspace{.1in} \noindent \rule{2.5in}{.1mm}\\ Committee Member\\ \vspace{.1in} \noindent \rule{2.5in}{.1mm}\\ Committee Member \hspace{1in}\\ \vspace{.1in} \noindent \rule{2.5in}{.1mm}\\ Committee Member\\ \end{multicols} % ****************************************************************************************************************************** % ********* Copyright Page - DO NOT MODIFY ************************************************************************************* % ****************************************************************************************************************************** \newpage \thispagestyle{empty} \begin{center} \vspace*{3in} Copyright \copyright{} 2006 by \emph{\thesisauthor}. All rights reserved. \end{center} %\doublespacing %\pagestyle{fancy} \pagenumbering{roman} \setcounter{page}{1} % ************************************************************************************************************************** % ******** Acknowledgments ************************************************************************************************ % ************************************************************************************************************************** \chapter*{Acknowledgments} \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter} {\protect\numberline{Acknowledgments\hspace{-96pt}}} % this is dummy text - please remove List of acknowledgments. \tableofcontents \listoffigures \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\protect\numberline{List of Figures\hspace{-96pt}}} \listoftables \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\protect\numberline{List of Tables\hspace{-96pt}}} \newpage \thispagestyle{plain} \pagenumbering{arabic} \singlespacing % you must use setspace.sty to get this. setspace also % defines the below two spacing options. It's magic. %\doublespacing %\onehalfspacing % spacing between paragraphs \addtolength{\parskip}{.1in} % makes Latex skip lines between paragraphs %************************************************************************************************************************* % ******** Thesis Text ************************************************************************************************** % ************************************************************************************************************************ \chapter{Introduction} \label{chap:introduction} \section{Lorem} \subsection{Ipsum} \subsubsection{Qwerty} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \chapter{Background} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \chapter{Original Findings} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \chapter{Conclusions and Future Work} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %adds the bibliography to the table of contents \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter} {\protect\numberline{Bibliography\hspace{-96pt}}} % generate bibiliography from thesis.bib \bibliography{thesis} \appendix %\appendixpage \addappheadtotoc \chapter{Some Random Appendix} \chapter{Source Code Appendix} \label{chap:code} \end{document}