sdtaylor/dissertation

University of Florida PhD dissertation example in Latex

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2nd submission feedback

Page: 5-6 Table of Contents
Comment: Follow http://graduateschool.ufl.edu/about-us/offices/editorial/format-requirements/
Some of your subheadings are not capitalized correctly.
Title Case (Like This) is used for 1st-level and 2nd-level subheadings. Capitalize the first letter of each principal word. All words should be capitalized except for the words to and as and all
articles, conjunctions, or prepositions, no matter how long they are.
Highlighted words should be capitalized.

3.4.3 Drivers of estimator performance

• title case all section titles
  -fixed titles for 3.4.3, C.1, and C.2

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Page: 107: References
Comment: You should only have 1” margin on all sides – including the bottom of the page – so you
need to start your entry for “Richardson” after “Rich” even if it carries over to page 108.

• 1 inch margins in references ...
  undid the interlinepenalty I put in for #4. 🙄

helpful sites

Writing your thesis with bookdown

Dissertating with RMarkdown and Bookdown

published chapter licences

Chap 2. (NPN-LTER Comparison, ecology)
CC BY 4.0, can share & adapt as long as there is attribution.

Chap 3. (Estimator Comparison, peerj)
CC BY 4.0, can share & adapt as long as there is attribution.

Chap 4. (methods paper, eco apps)
???, probably CC BY 4.0

first submission feedback

Page: 5-6 Table of Contents
Comment: Follow http://graduateschool.ufl.edu/about-us/offices/editorial/format-requirements/

Single level subheadings are not allowed.
EX: 1.1

• delete intro section so it's just a chapter in TOC

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You are missing LIST OF REFERENCES

• need REFERENCES list in the TOC

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Page: 7 List of Tables
Comment: Titles here should be the general title only (no more than approx. 2 lines). Any of the supplementary information (the sentences that follow the general title) will be included in the body under the actual figures. General titles must match exactly to the ones in the body.

• dumb down the table text

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Page: 8-11 List of Figures
Comment: Titles here should be the general title only (no more than approx. 2 lines). Any of the supplementary information (the sentences that follow the general title) will be included in the body under the actual figures. General titles must match exactly to the ones in the body.

• just need figure titles here. the rest of the legend goes down next to fig

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Page: 90-107 References
Comment: Each reference entry should be single-spaced, with one blank line of space between each of the entries. Do not break a reference at the bottom of a page; rather than splitting the reference, insert a hard return or relax the bottom margin to accommodate.

• edit references to single space
• no page jumping

to make sure single references to jump to a new page use \interlinepenalty=10000 right before the \bibliography call in main.text. from here

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Page: 108 Bio Sketch
Comment: You will have graduated by the time this dissertation is made available. You should write your Biographical Sketch to reflect this fact.

• “He received his Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 2019.”

todo

Overall

• 1 line dedication
• min. 3 sentence acknowledgement
• biosketch at the end
• Ecology paper (chap 2) footnote
• Peerj paper (chap 3) footnote
• eco apps / biorxiv (chap 4) footnote (?)
• need to knock down the dpi, and thus filesize, on all images, especially NPN-LTER comparions appendix
• make all urls clickable hyperlinks
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Chapter 1 (introduction)

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potential file structure

chap1/
    figs/
        chap1_fig1_xxxxxx.png
        chap1_fig2_xxxxxx.png
    chap1_main.md
    chap1_supplement1.md
    chap1_supplement2.md
    chap1_refs.bib

chap2/
    figs/
    chap2_main.md
    chap2_refs.bib

chap3/
    figs/
    chap3_refs.bib