sjtug/sjtuthesis

SJTUThesis is a LaTeX template for writing degree theses at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, one of China's leading research universities. LaTeX is a document preparation system used widely in academia, particularly in technical and scientific fields, that produces precisely formatted PDFs from text-based source files. This template handles the specific formatting requirements that SJTU sets for its bachelor's, master's, and doctoral theses, so students do not have to build the layout from scratch. The template includes example code showing how to format the things that come up most often in academic writing: mathematical formulas, tables, algorithms, and bibliographic references. Students can either use those examples as a starting point or write their own content directly in the same structure. The underlying document class package, called SJTUTeX, has been accepted into CTAN, the central archive for LaTeX packages, which means it can be installed through standard TeX distribution update tools. To use the template, you install a recent TeX distribution, clone or download the repository, and compile the main file using XeLaTeX (the recommended engine for Chinese-language documents). On Linux and macOS this is done through a provided Makefile with commands to build, clean, and count words. On Windows a batch script handles the same tasks. For people who prefer to work online, ready-to-use versions are available on both Overleaf and TeXPage, where you can edit and compile without installing anything locally. The project is maintained by a community of students and is hosted under the SJTUG (Shanghai Jiao Tong University Linux User Group) organization. Questions and feedback are handled through the GitHub Discussions page, and the code is dual-licensed under the LaTeX Project Public License and the Apache 2.0 license.