UCL $\LaTeX$ Dissertation Template APA7

A $\LaTeX$ template for Dissertation or Essays at UCL PALS in APA7 style

Format

1. Paper: A4
2. Margins: 1 inch each side
3. Font: Times New Roman
4. Font Size: 12pt
5. Indent: First line indented by 0.5 inch
6. Spacing: Double
7. Heading & References: APA7 Style

Features

1. A cover page with a UCL banner (cool!)
2. Automatically generated Table of Contents (with optional hyperlinks)
3. Automatically generated List of Figures (with optional hyperlinks)
4. Templates of figures, three part tables and a table of demographic information
5. Automatically generated References

How To Use

To edit online using overleaf, download Source Code (zip) from releases first.

1. Sign in your overleaf account
2. New Project → Upload Project
3. Select the zip you downloaded before
4. Menu → Settings → Compiler, choose XeLaTeX
5. Choose main.tex file, then click compile
6. Remeber to edit the basic information in the info.tex!

Basic commands

• Headings
  • Level 1, centering, \section{}
  • Level 2, left-justified, \subsection{}
  • Level 3, left-justified & italic, \subsubsection{}
  • Level 4, inline, \subheading{}
  • Level 5, inline & italic, \subsubheading{}
• Citation
  • parencite, (Tom et al., 2024), \parencite{}
  • textcite, Tom et al. (2024), \textcite{}

Acknowledgements

I first learned about $\LaTeX$ when I was in my senior year and busy preparing my resume for application. I was fascinated by its magic and decided to apply it to my undergraduate thesis. Surprisingly, I found that there has been a very exquisite template (sysu-thesis) on Github which perfectly meets the requirements of my university. Benefiting a lot from it, I have always been eager to make my own contributions for the others. Compared to it, however, what I have done just looks like the simpliest stick figure drawn by a preschooler to kill his time in a tedious afternoon. Mank thanks to sysu-thesis for not only the template itself, but also the knowledge about $\LaTeX$ and GitHub I have gained from it.

Feedback & Improvement

Should any errors found or more features required, please report in Issues.