Montana State University

The Graduate School - Electronic Theses and Dissertations

LaTeX Guide

The Graduate School has two LaTeX templates that were provided by MSU grad students. Thank you to those students for all your hard work! Updates to templates are appreciated.

The Graduate School does not provide technical support for LaTeX and all thesis/dissertations in LaTeX must comply with all formatting guidelines. Students using LaTeX templates from this website are responsible for ensuring that the templates conform to all formatting guidelines regardless of the current template configurations.

Template 1:

Last updated February 26, 2011

This website was created and is maintained by Seth Humphries, Ph.D., former MSU graduate student. http://hstuff.net/projects/latex/msustyle.html This website includes the files needed and instructions.

Template 2:

Added November 1, 2007

LaTeX Template
This archive contains:
msudoc.cls - thesis template with some modifications
thesis.tex - example usage of msudoc.cls
thesis.bib - example bibliography with various citation types
thesis.pdf - output generated for thesis.tex
images/... - two example images used in thesis.tex

Helpful Links for LaTeX

Getting Started With LaTeX
TeX Users Group (TUG) home page
Special Latex Characters
Nasa's Latex guide
MSU Department of Mathematics Help
LaTeXe help
IEEE Transactions LaTeX and Microsoft Word Style Files
Making slides in LaTeX
Presentations
Tutorials - Making Presentations with LaTeX and Prosper