What is thesisuestc?

ThesisUESTC is a ready-made template that helps students at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China write their graduation theses without fighting with formatting. Instead of spending hours manually adjusting margins, font sizes, heading styles, and page layouts to meet university requirements, students can just write their content and let the template handle the appearance. It covers everything from the cover page and abstracts to references, appendices, and acknowledgements, supporting bachelor's, master's, and doctoral theses in both Chinese and English. At its core, it is built for LaTeX, a document preparation system popular in academia for producing polished, professionally formatted documents. The template provides simple commands, essentially short text instructions, that automatically generate standard thesis sections. For example, typing a single command creates a properly formatted title page with the author's name, advisor, and department. The template also handles complex formatting tasks automatically, like managing bibliography styles, creating tables of contents, inserting figures with sub-captions, and even generating lists of abbreviations. Students can write their entire thesis in one file or split it across multiple files for larger projects. The primary users are students at this specific university who want to save time and avoid the frustration of manual formatting. A master's student writing a physics thesis, for instance, can focus on their research and equations rather than worrying whether their section headings have the correct spacing. The template also works with Overleaf, a popular online LaTeX editor, so students do not even need to install specialized software on their own computers. This makes it accessible even to those relatively new to academic typesetting. The project was created by a 2014 graduate who personally struggled with thesis formatting and wanted a better solution. The code is hand-written rather than generated by automated tools, making it easier for advanced users to read and customize. The template is designed to produce PDFs that pass the university's plagiarism check without issues, and it avoids relying on older, less stable software packages.