Thesis item type
- adamsmith March 11, 2019 The type of thesis. "PhD Thesis" "Doctoral Dissertation" "MA Thesis" etc.
- psycoperl March 11, 2019 Thanks! That is what I thought but wanted to confirm.
- leahperl August 20, 2022 the Thesis type gets printed out as "Ph.D. Dissertation" in my bibliography, but I want to cite an undergraduate thesis. Which Type should I use?
- adamsmith August 20, 2022 Which citation style? This may be hardcoded in the style.
- leahperl August 22, 2022 Sorry my last post was vague. This is when exporting to a .bib file. More specifically, here are the reproduction steps: 1. In the Zotero UI, select "Thesis" in the dropdown menu for my item type. 2. Export it to the .bib file. 3a. Expected: it shows as "@thesis" in the .bib file. 3b. Actual: it shows as "@phdthesis" in the .bib file. 4. Construct a bibliography from that .bib file in latex using "\bibliographystyle{ACM-Reference-Format}" (the reference format required by my venue), and the citation says "Ph.D. Dissertation".
- bwiernik August 22, 2022 If you are writing with LaTeX, you should install the BetterBibTeX plugin and using its Better BibTeX or BetterBibLaTeX format. It has more sophisticated export of the myriad types of .bib theses
- emilianoeheyns August 22, 2022 Is an undergraduate thesis different from a bachelor thesis?
- bwiernik August 22, 2022 No those are the same. Sometimes they have additional qualifiers like “Honors thesis”
- emilianoeheyns August 22, 2022 But honors could be Ba or Ma, right? I've added undergrad as an alias for a bach thesis.
- leahperl August 25, 2022 edited August 25, 2022 @bwiernik , thanks for the suggestion. To clarify, I already have BetterBibTeX installed. My earlier posts describe the behavior of Zotero with BetterBibTeX. It sounds like you are hinting at some feature of BetterBibTeX that would enable me to differentiate between different kinds of theses? If so, could you please give me more detailed instructions on how to configure my export settings so I can create an item that will be exported to .bib with the type "@thesis"? Thanks!
- warwickmm August 25, 2022 This seems related: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/398735/#Comment_398735
- emilianoeheyns August 25, 2022 @warwickmm is right. Set the Item Type to "Thesis" and then enter the thesis type in the Type field.
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Writing a thesis or dissertation in LaTeX can be challenging, but the end result is well worth it – nothing looks as good as a LaTeX-produced PDF, and for large documents it's a lot easier than fighting with formatting and cross-referencing in MS Word. Review this video from Overleaf to help you get started writing your thesis in LaTeX, using a standard thesis template from the Overleaf Gallery .
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How to Write a Thesis in LaTeX (Part 4): Bibliographies with BibLaTeX
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This five-part series of articles uses a combination of video and textual descriptions to teach the basics of writing a thesis using LaTeX. These tutorials were first published on the original ShareLateX blog site during August 2013; consequently, today's editor interface (Overleaf) has changed considerably due to the development of ShareLaTeX and the subsequent merger of ShareLaTeX and Overleaf. However, much of the content is still relevant and teaches you some basic LaTeX—skills and expertise that will apply across all platforms.
In the previous post we looked at using images and tables in our thesis. In this post we are going to look at adding a bibliography to our thesis. To do this we are going to use the biblatex package . This involves creating a list of sources in a separate file called a .bib file.
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When we create this file we need to choose a name for it and save it as a .bib file rather than a .tex file.
Now every time we need to reference a source we can cite it in the text and then fill in the source details in the .bib file. First we'll look at filling in our .bib file and then we'll move on to discussing citations. To add a new entry to our .bib file we need to first tell BibLaTeX what type of source we are referencing. We do this using an @ symbol followed immediately by the source type.
Then comes an opening curly bracket and a citation key of our choice followed by a comma. We then need to tell it all the details it wants for that particular type of source. We do this using a list of keywords each followed by an equals sign and the corresponding information in curly brackets. Items in the list are separated by commas. Each recognised source type has a list of required details which we must provide. But we'll often want to give more details. For example, for an article entry we need to use the author , title , journaltitle and year or date keywords. For an online source we need to use the author or editor , title , year or date and url keywords, and finally for a book it's the author , title and year or date keywords. Here's an example of what they might look like filled-in:
All of the information about the recognised source types and all the keywords you can use can be found in the biblatex documentation .
Now let's return to the main .tex file. To set it up for a bibliography we need to load up the biblatex package using the \usepackage command. Also in the preamble we need to specify which .bib files we want to use by calling the \addbibresource command and entering the file name in the curly brackets including the .bib extension.
Now let's look at citations. To cite a source in the text we use one of the biblatex citation commands. The simplest is the \cite command which prints the citation without any brackets unless you are using the numeric or alphabetic styles. We'll discuss styles a little later on. For example we may cite a source in the text like this:
Another one is the \parencite command which prints citations in parentheses except when using the numeric or alphabetic styles when it uses square brackets. There are more citation commands available to you which again can be found in the biblatex documentation .
The citation commands in biblatex also give us the option of adding a prenote and postnote in as arguments:
- a prenote is a word or phrase like "see" that is inserted at the start of the citation;
- a postnote is text you want inserted at the end of the citation.
To add these notes in you uses two sets of square brackets in the citation command. If you only open one set of square brackets it will assume the contents of the brackets is a postnote , so if you only want a prenote make sure you still open the second set of square brackets and then just leave them empty. Here are some examples:
Now to actually get the bibliography printed in our thesis we use the \printbibliography command at the end of the document. By default the bibliography and citations use the numeric style which looks like this:
To change the style we pass more arguments into the \usepackage command in square brackets. For example this specifies the alphabetic style:
Which looks like this:
And this is the authoryear style:
Another thing we can change here is the way the bibliography is ordered. For example this sorts entries by year , name , title :
While this doesn't sort them at all but displays them in the order they are cited.
More information about the numerous styles and sorting options available can be found in the biblatex documentation . This concludes our discussion on adding a bibliography. In the final post of this series we'll look at customising some of the opening pages.
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BibTeX bibliography style: gatech-thesis
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Change the string "Master's thesis" to "Bachelor's thesis". Save the new .bst file either in the same directory as your main .tex file or somewhere in your TeX distribution's search path. If you choose the latter method, you will probably need to update the filename database in a way that's appropriate for your TeX distribution.
bathesis An expression equivalent to the term 'Bachelor's thesis'. mathesis An expression equivalent to the term 'Master's thesis'. phdthesis The term 'PhD thesis', 'PhD dissertation', 'doctoral thesis', etc. candthesis An expression equivalent to the term 'Candidate thesis'. Used for 'Candidate' degrees that ...
Learn all about the BibTeX type field. Our examples will tell you how and when to use the type field. The quick BibTeX guide All you ever need to know about BibTeX. Format; Styles; ... type = "Government Report" type = "White Paper" type = "Bachelor thesis" type = "{PhD} dissertation" How the type field is used in BibTeX entry types. BibTeX entry
I'm using bibtex and I would like to know how to cite a @masterthesis. I've exported Mendeley's citations and it has only the @phdthesis style, which actually works. ... bibtex; thesis. The Overflow Blog A student of Geoff Hinton, Yann LeCun, and Jeff Dean explains where AI is headed . Meet the guy responsible for building the Call of Duty game ...
the Thesis type gets printed out as "Ph.D. Dissertation" in my bibliography, but I want to cite an undergraduate thesis. ... you should install the BetterBibTeX plugin and using its Better BibTeX or BetterBibLaTeX format. ... 2022. Is an undergraduate thesis different from a bachelor thesis? bwiernik. August 22, 2022. No those are the same ...
BibTeX is a file format used for lists of references for LaTeX documents. Many citation management tools support the ability to export and import lists of references in .bib format. ... You can upload your own thesis template to the Overleaf Gallery if your university provides a set of LaTeX template files or you may find your university's ...
BibTeX is a file format used for lists of references for LaTeX documents. Many citation management tools support the ability to export and import lists of references in .bib format. ... Writing a thesis or dissertation in LaTeX can be challenging, but the end result is well worth it - nothing looks as good as a LaTeX-produced pdf, and for large ...
LaTeX uses the BibTeX (.bib) file format to manage and process lists of references in order to produce in-text citations and formatted bibliographies. It is possible to create a BibTeX file from scratch using a text editor, but many literature databases and most modern citation managers can export directly to this format.
All of the information about the recognised source types and all the keywords you can use can be found in the biblatex documentation.. Now let's return to the main .tex file. To set it up for a bibliography we need to load up the biblatex package using the \usepackage command. Also in the preamble we need to specify which .bib files we want to use by calling the \addbibresource command and ...
\documentclass[a4paper,10pt] {article} \begin {document} This is an example of a paragraph with in-text citations using the gatech-thesis BibTeX style. Here is a reference to a journal article with a single author \cite { article1 }, to a journal article with two authors \cite { article2 } and three authors \cite { article3 }, and to a book ...