PhD Thesis template for ITMO University in LaTeX

This is not an official template.

If you are writing your dissertation in Russian, there is another repository toftul/itmo-phd-thesis-template-ru.

Video instruction on YouTube (in Russian):

Why does this exist

There is an official template on the ITMO Dissertation Council website, which is a fork of the well-known template AndreyAkinshin/Russian-Phd-LaTeX-Dissertation-Template.

However both these templates are extremely overloaded and it's hard to use them without much experience in programming and $\LaTeX$. In addition, there are many features (beamer, docker, separate compilation of the synopses, the choice of different engines of bibliography, etc.), which are usually useless while writing a dissertation at ITMO. Turns out you can throw out more than half of them, which has been done.

What has changed

1. Removed all the files you won't need when compiling in Overleaf. Also all folders with documentation and GOST are removed;
2. Removed the choice between bibtex and biblatex in favor of the latter one, because it is the most modern version of the bibliography engine;
3. Abstract and Synopsys inserted into the main document, as required by the template ITMO;
4. Counters and output of own paper (how many in total, how many in Scopus, etc.) are done from sratch.
5. Now in Dissertation folder there are only files of the dissertation, all the settings are moved to common.

How to use

the beginning

• Download the zip of this repository;
• Upload it to Overleaf.

Additional settings and packages

All your extra packages and custom functions should be placed in the file Dissertation/custom.tex in order not to touch other files, which are responsible for the stylistics of the template.

Literature

There are two files with literature (I highly suggest doing bib-entries via BibItNow!):

1. `biblio/references.bib' is the standard bib file, where all the sources you are going to cite go, including your own work;
2. biblio/own.bib is the list of your articles and conferences. This file is used for the automatic output in the general thesis summary part. However, you will need to manually add the necessary keywords to make it work.

Example keywords are:

• own is your article, not the conference;
• wos - Web if Science;
• scopus - Scopus;
• vak - VAK;
• other - article/proceedings from other sources;
• conf - conference.

Example of the bib-entry:

@article{Toftul2019Oct,
        keywords = {own, scopus, wos}, % <--- here!
        Author = {Toftul, I. D. and Bliokh, K. Y. and Petrov, M. I. and Nori, F.},
        title = {{Acoustic Radiation Force and Torque on Small Particles as Measures of the Canonical Momentum and Spin Densities}},
        journal = {Phys. Rev. Lett.},
        volume = {123},
        number = {18},
        pages = {183901},
        year = {2019},
        month = {Oct},
        issn = {1079-7114},
        publisher = {American Physical Society},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.183901},
        doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.183901}
}

%Sorry for this but this works
@article{metanano2021,
        keywords = {conf}, % <--- here!
        author = {\textbf{METANANO}}
        year={2021},
        journal = {13-17 September 2021 Saint Petersburg, Russia (Online)},
        title = {{Two talks: High-Q states in acoustic apple-shaped resonators, Nonlinear circular dichroism in Mie-resonant nanoparticle dimers}}
}

Offline compilation

• Use texstudio
• Make sure you have biber installed
• Change the bibliography engine from bibtex to biber

The rest

Everything else should be intuitive.

Possible errors and solutions

Error U+0301

The simplest one: delete all \' in biblio/references.bib.

Does not compile references

• Make sure the bibliography engine is set to biber in your editor settings.
• Make sure the fresh distribution of LaTeX is installed.