Teaching / thesis style guide
When writing your thesis, stick to the following rules:
- Do not try to make things look fancy by using colours, different fonts, etc.
- Do not use sans serif fonts - they are less readable than serif ones on print material
- Use only vector format figures, if possible. Do not copy-paste external raster format figures, but rather re-do the figures in vector graphics format (SVG, EPS). If you need to use figure from someone elses PDF, use e.g. inkscape to extract the figure in a vector format
- Figures and Tables when referred to in the text should always be with capital first letter (and never abbreviated)
- Make sure your list of references is constantly in a correct format, and _always_ use a reference manager for citing (never do it manually)
- If you're using m$ word, don't use the word's built-in equation editor - rather use an external equation editor and attach the equations as vector graphics images, or better yet, use a plug-in that does better layout of the equations (or the best yet, use latex for your thesis)
- The thesis pages must be numbered in the following manner:
- Front page and thesis information page: no page numbering
- Acknowledgements, abstract, table of [contents|figures|tables]: Roman numbering (I, II, ...)
- Main test: arabic numbering (1, 2, 3, ...)
- Appendices: Letter following the page number (A1, A2, ..., B1, B2, ...)