Template for either Bachelor or Master thesis at the chair for Digital Libraries and Web Information Systems lead by Prof. Handschuh at the University Passau.
The content and/or titlepage is not legally binding and is subject to change, depending on the requirements.
% !TeX spellcheck = en_US
% !TeX encoding = UTF-8
% COMPILE WITH:
% `latexmk`
% You need lualatex and biber (in all TeXLive distributions)
\documentclass[
numbers=noenddot,
%listof=totoc,
parskip=half-,
fontsize=12pt,
paper=a4,
oneside,
titlepage,
bibliography=totoc,
chapterprefix=false,
% draft
]{scrbook}
% use lualatex or xelatex
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[doublespacing]{setspace}
% better language support
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{english}
\setotherlanguage{german}
\usepackage{tocbasic}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage[]{scrlayer-scrpage}
% better bibliography (biblatex style)
% use biber to compile
\usepackage[citestyle=alphabetic, bibstyle=alphabetic, sorting=nyt, backend=biber, language=english, backref=true, maxcitenames=2]{biblatex}
% better quotes
% use \enquote{text}
\usepackage[autostyle,english=american,german=quotes]{csquotes}
\addbibresource{bibliography.bib}
% appendix
\usepackage[titletoc]{appendix}
% where to put all images and figures
\graphicspath{{images/}}
% YOUR PACKAGES
% Title
\title{TITLE}
% Author
\author{AUTHOR}
% Date
\date{\today}
% CHOOSE ACCORDINGLY
%\newcommand{\thesisType}{Bachelorarbeit}
\newcommand{\thesisType}{Masterarbeit}
\makeatletter
\let\thetitle\@title
\let\theauthor\@author
\let\thedate\@date
\makeatother
\pagestyle{scrheadings}
\begin{document}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\frontmatter
% CHOOSE ACCORDINGLY
%\include{includes/BA-titlepage}
\include{includes/MA-titlepage}
\tableofcontents
\newpage
% -- ABSTRACT
\include{includes/abstract}
\newpage
% -- Acknowledgements (optional)
\include{includes/acknowledgements}
\newpage
% -- List of figures
\thispagestyle{empty}
\cleardoublepage
\listoffigures
\newpage
% -- List of tables
\thispagestyle{empty}
\cleardoublepage
\listoftables
\newpage
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\mainmatter
% -- Chapters
% following IMRaD structure
% adjust for your liking
\include{chapters/introduction}
\include{chapters/methods}
\include{chapters/results}
\include{chapters/discussion}
% -- Appendix (optional)
\begin{appendices}
\input{appendix.tex}
\end{appendices}
\newpage
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\backmatter
% -- Bibliography
\printbibliography
% -- Eidesstattliche Erklärung (= Affadavit)
\include{includes/eidesstattlicheErklaerung}
\end{document}