This repository provides a MA thesis template used at the CLTL for the Humanities Research Master Linguistics and the Linguistics Master Language and AI.
This template is not compulsory, but make sure to adhere to the faculty's thesis regulations if you adopt a different format.
Download this repository as a Zip file, and upload it from Overleaf: New project > Upload project
The main file mathesis.tex contains pointers to the fields that need adapting. Chapter files can be found in the
tex folder, and you can use mathesis.sty to list additional packages.
You can use the Word count action from the Overleaf menu to get a word count for your thesis.
Some useful sources:
The tabular package is rather basic, you may want to look at the booktabs and ctable packages for more complex tables.
Chapter titles are displayed on the headers of even pages, and will overflow if they are too long. You can specify shorter titles when you declare chapter titles, like this:
\chapter[Short chapter title]{Long chapter title that will most certainly overflow the header space on even pages}
The template uses the natbib package, but you are free to use a different package if you prefer.
By convention, citations in running text should be formatted as author (year), for instance:
- Smith and de Vries (2024) show that ...
and otherwise as (author, year):
- The ABC model (Smith and de Vries, 2024) ...
An example bibliography is provided in bib/example.bib. You can replace it by your own. You may want to use a bibliography management package
like Zotero to keep an overview and extract a bibliography file automatically.
You are welcome to post issues to help improve this template and repository.