Université de Montpellier thesis template

🎓 This is the template developed for PhD students of the Université de Montpellier. A preview of the pdf is available here.

👉 This template is adapted from Sylvain Schmitt's PhD template.

Prerequesite

You'll need to have the following softwares installed on your computer:

• R
• Rstudio

You'll need the following R packages with associated dependencies:

• rmarkdown
• bookdown
• tinytex

Installation

Download this GitLab repository or clone it with git:

git clone git@gitlab.com:v_vandermeersch/um_thesis_template.git

Template structure

Latex files:

• Template
• Title page
• Abstract (English and French)

Rmarkdown files:

• Acknowledgments
• Résumé substantiel (in French)
• Introduction
• Chapters, and so on...

Getting started

Start by filling your informations in the YAML header of the index.Rmd:

title: "TITRE SUFFISAMMENT COMPLIQUÉ POUR REFLÉTER LA GRANDE COMPLEXITÉ DU TRAVAIL"
author: 'Aubin SAHALOR'
date: '01 Janvier 2001'
supervisor: 'Thérèse PONSABLE'
specialty: 'Écologie fonctionnelle et Sciences Agronomiques'
department: 'UMR 5175 – Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive - CNRS'

Adding a chapter

📝 Create a 05-Chapter1.Rmd file in /contents. Call this file in the index.Rmd:

<!-- Call the child documents -->
```{r body, child = c('contents/01-Acknowledgments.Rmd', 'contents/02-TOC.Rmd', 'contents/03-Resume.Rmd', 'contents/04-Introduction.Rmd',
'contents/05-Chapter1.Rmd')}```