IIT Madras thesis
Academic
Follows the rules of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (template iitmdissertation, Sreeram, LPPL 1.3c; its listing says the Institute approved it, but the Institute does not publish it, so it is not an official template of the Institute). A Ph.D. or an M.S. thesis or an M.Tech. or B.Tech. project report in English after the Guidelines for the preparation of Ph.D. and MS Thesis (March 2025): the cover and the inside cover of Annexure 1A and 1B (a black or a blue band along the spine, the Institute's logo, the department, the title, an optional image from the thesis, your name, the degree, the month and year), a quotation, a dedication, the Thesis Certificate with its prescribed text and the Institute's copyright line, the list of publications, the acknowledgements, the abstract with its keywords, the contents with their Page column, the lists of tables and figures, the glossary, the abbreviations and the notation, chapters CHAPTER 1 in capitals centred, always on a right-hand page, sections 1.1 in bold capitals and 1.1.1 in bold, figures, tables (booktabs) and equations numbered within the chapter, the caption of a table over it and of a figure under it, appendices APPENDIX A, numbered references (APA) and the curriculum vitae and the committee of the approved thesis. Margins of 1.25 in at the sides and 1 in at the top, Times (TeX Gyre Termes) 12 pt, double-spaced, paragraphs not indented and 0.5 cm apart, lists, quotations, code and tables single-spaced, the page number centred at the foot, the preliminary pages in lower case Roman numerals.
- Format
- A4 portrait
- Language
- EnglishENEnglish (default)
- Margins
- left and right 1.25 cm, top 1 cm, bottom 3.4 cm
- Body text
- Times (TeX Gyre Termes) 12 pt, dvojité řádkování (24 pt), odstavce bez odsazení s mezerou 0,5 cm, seznamy, citáty, kód, tabulky, popisky a literatura jednoduše
- Headings
- Times tučně, kapitoly 15 pt velkými písmeny na střed na pravé straně, oddíly 12 pt velkými písmeny, pododdíly 12 pt
- Numbering
- CHAPTER 1 / 1.1 / 1.1.1
- Page number
- no page numbers
- Citations
- APA 7can be changed
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