Virginia Tech dissertation and thesis
Academic
Follows the official LaTeX template of Virginia Tech's (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University's) Graduate School, "Virginia Tech ETD template" (VTthesis.cls, Lattimer and Foster, modified by Cross, Browder, Lim and Miller, September 2026, CC BY 4.0), and the ETD rules (the Libraries' ETD guide, the Graduate School's review checklist, the Word template of the front matter). A doctoral dissertation or a master's thesis, in English. The title page with the title, your name, "Dissertation (Thesis) submitted to the Faculty of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of", the degree and the major, the committee, the date and place of the defense, the keywords and an optional copyright line; the Abstract and the General Audience Abstract, both with the title and your name; an optional dedication and acknowledgments; the table of contents with blue links and the lists of figures and tables; chapters "Chapter 1" and the title in bold, flush left, running heads in small capitals; the bibliography, a page "Appendices" and the appendices "Appendix A". US Letter, margins of 1.5 in at the sides, Carlito 12 pt instead of the template's Fira Sans, double spaced, the front matter in Roman numerals, the text in Arabic numerals from 1. Without the University's seal.
- Format
- US Letter portrait
- Language
- EnglishENEnglish (default)
- Margins
- left and right 3.81 cm, top 2.65 cm, bottom 2.43 cm
- Body text
- Carlito (metriky Calibri, výchozí písmo pravidel) místo Fira Sans šablony 12 pt, dvojité řádkování (24 pt), odstavce odsazené; poznámky, obrázky a tabulky jednoduše
- Headings
- Carlito tučně, kapitoly 24,88 pt „Chapter 1“ nad názvem, oddíly 17,28 pt, pododdíly 14,4 pt
- Numbering
- Chapter 1 / 1.1 / 1.1.1, přílohy Appendix A
- Page number
- no page numbers
- Citations
- IEEEcan be changed
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