UDThesis: LaTeX Resources

Getting LaTeX software

• Windows: proTeXt - MiKTeX-based distribution for Windows
• Mac: MacTeX-2011 Distribution
• UNIX: TeX Live
• Other software: Importing UDThesis class and other packages
  • Scientific WorkPlace & Scientific Word - Version: 3.x, 4.x, 5.x
    Import the udthesis.cls file into the styles folder for Scientific Workplace or Scientific Word, run it a couple of times, and it should work. Each time you load your .tex file, it will prompt with a warning indicating udthesis.cls could not have been loaded correctly. Just ignore the warning, and it will pickup the style.
  • Lyx Home Page
    Important Note: UDThesis is based on the LaTeX report class not article class, so where it refers to article for the layout file, use report instead. Also, the class and layout name should be udthesis and udthesis.layout respectively (i.e. where you see eethesis and clv2, it should be udthesis).
    • Adding custom class files (.cls) to Lyx in Windows Vista / Windows 7 environment
    • How to install an unavailable document class for LyX on Mac
• Collaborative LaTeX environments:
  • Overleaf
    An online LaTeX and Rich Text collaborative writing and publishing tool that makes the whole process of writing, editing and publishing scientific documents much quicker and easier. Overleaf is based on TeX Live TL2018 and is expected to be upgraded to TL2019 in the near future. See Overleaf blog entry for a list of problems and inconsistencies in popular TeX packages - a useful resource of authors and users.
    • University of Delaware does not have a campus wide license for Overleaf, however the University of Delaware College of Arts and Science (CAS) has an Overleaf group license. Please contact Pat McMahon (pmcmahon@udel.edu) to request information about the CAS Overleaf group license.
  • ShareLaTeX
    LaTeX, Evolved: The easy to use, online, collaborative LaTeX editor.The ShareLaTeX editor will be at the core of the new platform, on top of the Overleaf ecosystem.

LaTeX packages and modifications required for UDThesis

Including certain packages may not always work as expected with UDThesis, and can cause your document to no longer follow the UDThesis guidelines. Below is a list of packages and how to use them properly with UDThesis or in some cases avoid all together.

• Algorithmic and Algorithm
• Overleaf
• gb4e - Linguistic tools
• Do not use geometry package
• Listings
• tocloft for defining List of ...
• tocbibind to add elements to the TOC ...

General LaTeX documentation, tutorials and references

• The LaTeX Font Catalogue
• LaTeX tutorials
• Wikibooks LaTeX

Books on LaTeX

• Books on LaTeX

LaTeX and bibliographies

• BibTeX
  • BibTeX
    Also see the quick BibTeX guide for BibTeX fomat, styles and converters.
  • JabRef
    An open source bibliography reference manager. The native file format used by JabRef is BibTeX, the standard LaTeX bibliography format. JabRef runs on the Java VM (version 1.5 or newer), and should work equally well on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
  • Natbib
    Make sure to follow the instructions in the LaTeX UDThesis Style Guidelines on page 29 to get the proper entry and heading for your references in the Table of Contents. Using other methods such as the tocbibind package alters the List of Tables and List of Figures as well as changes the page dimension, etc. and therefore produces incorrect results. 
    • Natbib bibliography styles
    • Natbib citations
  • BibTeX bibliography styles
    Where can I find collections of bibliography styles?

    • bibstyles.pdf contains previews of reference lists and in-text citations for 44 styles.

    • "BibTeX Style Examples" contains previews of reference lists and in-text citations for 52 styles.

    • "BibTeX Bibliography Styles" (via archive.org, as MacKichan Software has gone out of business) contains previews of reference lists and in-text citations for 119 styles, displayed in separate files.

    • "Choosing a BibTeX style" contains previews of 9 BibTeX styles, along with advice on how to choose a style according to the subject of the paper.

• Endnote
  • EndNote at the University of Delaware
  • Step-by-step guide to using Endnote with BibTeX and LaTeX
     
• Mendeley
  Although Mendeley no longer integrates automatically with LaTeX, it's possible to use Mendeley to store references and then export a BibTeX file to work in LaTeX. This will be a standalone file, and won't update automatically. When new references are added to Mendeley, you'll need to export the file again.
  • In Mendeley Reference Manager, select the references you want to export.
  • From the menu that will appear at the bottom of the screen, select Export.
  • From the dropdown, select BibTeX.
  • Save the generated .bib file in the same folder as your LaTeX file

​​​​​Mendeley automatically generates citekeys in the format AuthorYear.

• Other resources
  • Citation Management Tools at the University of Delaware