This template is compatible with the Bristol regulations for both Postgraduate Taught (e.g. MSc) and Research Degrees (e.g. PhDs). These may be found at the following links:
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/media-library/sites/academic-quality/documents/taught-code/annexes/dissertations.pdf http://www.bristol.ac.uk/academic-quality/pg/pgrcode/annex4/
The template also seems appropriate for undergraduate dissertations (for integrated masters degrees), as the format of these is not strictly specified.
The template is based around xparse, which we recommend all students learn, by
reading the manual.
The template supports latexmk for compilation. After installing your favourite
TeX distribution, just run
latexmk
to compile, and
latexmk -c
to clean the repository.
The template has been prepared to use biber to generate citations from BibTeX.
Put your BibTeX source in refs.bib. Then, within the main text of your thesis, use
\textcite{qian_2021}
or
\parencite{qian_2021}
or get a textual or parenthetical citation respectively.
The default style is ACM citation
style. The
document class option ieee switches the style to the IEEE reference
style.
Finally, if you would like to use Unicode characters, latexmk can be
instructed to use xelatex by changing the relevant line of the latexmkrc
file:
$pdf_mode = 1; # pdflatex is 1, xelatex is 5