Thesis Howto-Guide Part 1for yourMasterthesis at the SRH Hochschule Heidelberg

Writing your thesis professionally with BIBTEX Thesis Howto-Guide Part for your Masterthesis at the SRH Hochschule Heidelberg Benjamin Fritz 22 Oktober 2013 What i need for a thesis? Basics Also recommended How can i keep my citations in order? BIBTEX Comfortable working with BIBTEX What i need for a thesis? Basics Also recommended How can i keep my citations in order? BIBTEX Comfortable working with BIBTEX Basics To finish your thesis successfully you must produce: A proper scientific document of over 80 pages written by you personally Correct citations of all literature used Professional layout for the entire document Lists of: Tables Diagramms Pictures / 16 This means You will need A professional Editor for publishing formats A way to keep control over the increasing number of literature sources online and offline that you are using in your research / 16 What i need for a thesis? Basics Also recommended How can i keep my citations in order? BIBTEX Comfortable working with BIBTEX Also recommended A good backup strategy Don’t lose all your files to some freak disk-failure days before deadline! get a library user account for the library of the University Heidelberg for your research-phase Concentrate on just writing plaintext for most of the time, so you have least possible distraction from writing You can take care of layouting during the finishing-part or choose an editor that will take care of the issue for you (like TeXMaker) / 16 Backup Strategy Try using an online repository to synchronize your files between multiple machines Easiest to implement with SVN on our fh-project-server: projects.fh-heidelberg.de All you need for that is: An own project on the project-server (just create one, i also use one specifically for my thesis-work) Install a SVN-client on your computer (i recommend ”tortoise-SVN” for Windows-machines) / 16 Research at the UB UB is short for ”Universit¨ats-Bibliothek” which is the library of the University Heidelberg (so this is not about our library here on campus) Why? Because they have many more databases accessible than our library Also, once you are registered, access is free of charge How? get a printout of your current immatriculation-report (”Immatrikulationsbescheinigung”) Also get a form of personal ID (like a Visa-permit or Personalausweis or Drivers’ Licence) go to the Registration-desk of the UB with the above two (location can be found online: http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/Englisch/) / 16 What i need for a thesis? Basics Also recommended How can i keep my citations in order? BIBTEX Comfortable working with BIBTEX Dis-Disclaimer The following works for any operating-system and is fully compatible with any document-editor (So it even works on MS-word) / 16 Requirements Easy editing in a comfortable graphical user-interface Availability of complete reference-entries (save yourself the massive typing orgies) The resulting bibliography-file is usable in all available document-editors / 16 What i need for a thesis? Basics Also recommended How can i keep my citations in order? BIBTEX Comfortable working with BIBTEX One solution: BIBTEX(Part I) BIBTEXwas created as a bibliography standard to complement the professional document-preparation-system LATEXwhich is basd on the professional typesetting-system TEX Today it can be utilized by a wide range of document-editors BTW: The ”X” is not an X but the greek letter ”Chi”, so it’s spelled ”bibtech” Likewise TEXand LATEXare spelled ”tech” and ”latech” A BIBTEX-file is a normal text-file that contains the reference-entries / 16 One solution: BIBTEX(Part II) An entry in a BIBTEX-file looks like this: @INPROCEEDINGS{YarandiJahankhani2012, author = {Yarandi, M and Jahankhani, H and Tawil, A.}, title = {An ontology-based adaptive mobile learning system based on learners’ abilities}, booktitle = {Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2012 IEEE}, year = {2012}, abstract = {The rapid development of }, doi = {10.1109/EDUCON.2012.6201115}, issn = {2165-9559}, keywords = {Internet;knowledge management;}, timestamp = {2013.04.06} } / 16 One solution: BIBTEX(Part III) There are many different types of entries like article, inproceedings or book http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/ Bibliography_Management#Standard_templates For more Info turn to You can get complete entries in BIBTEX-style for your bibliography on any site for scientific literature-research like: google scholar - http://scholar.google.de ACM Digital library - http://dl.acm.org/ sciencedirect - http://www.sciencedirect.com/ IEEE Xplore - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org and basically all others 10 / 16 What i need for a thesis? Basics Also recommended How can i keep my citations in order? BIBTEX Comfortable working with BIBTEX Basic Comfort Some amount of comfort comes from BIBTEX itself: getting reference-data from the reference-sources directly instead of endless typing usable with any document-editor: use cool automated-literature-handling-features of your editors keep your bibliographies even when you change your editing-environment exchange bibliographies with your peers also it’s a nice way to organize your notes on literature using the ”review”-field in BIBTEX-entries 11 / 16 Does it get better? YES 12 / 16 JabRef JabRef is a powerful desktop-based editor for BIBTEX-files This means: since it runs on Java, it is plattform-independent Windows, Linux, Mac - who cares? excellent Bibliography-overview well designed graphical user-interface available plaintext-editing just a tab away 13 / 16 Demo And now for a little Demo! 14 / 16 Sources referred to in this work Wikibook on BIBTEXusage http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/ Bibliography_Management#Standard_templates google scholar http://scholar.google.de ACM Digital library http://dl.acm.org/ sciencedirect http://www.sciencedirect.com/ IEEE Xplore http://ieeexplore.ieee.org UB Heidelberg http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/Englisch/ 15 / 16 Thanks for your attention and enjoy working on your thesis 16 / 16