The Utmthesis Project

The Utmthesis Project provides and maintains a LaTeX class and BibTeX styles (for both authordate and number citation styles) to typeset your thesis according to the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) thesis formatting rules.

This project is a free software project licensed under the New BSD License. See licensing details in the LICENSE file.

This is an ongoing project that has received support and official recognition by UTM for use in thesis publication. It is currently the most time saving and efficient way to write a UTM compliant thesis.

There are also tutorials, tips & examples on how to use LaTeX in thesis writing provided in the downloads and wiki section.

Download the latest version of utmthesis here.

If you need any help please discuss it at utmthesis-discuss or report a legitimate bug at the issues page.

Update: FSKSM students having issues with their faculty please use the revised utmthesis.cls that is modified to suit your faculty requirements. Download it here.

Update: The FSKSM management has agreed to allow students to follow the UTM thesis manual and use Latex :)

Required Software

You will need to download and install certain types of software in order to start writing your thesis, journals, and papers with LaTeX:

1. A good LaTeX compiler. Miktex is highly recommended in Windows. In Linux, install TeX Live.
2. A good LaTeX editor such as Texmaker, available for both Windows and Linux.
3. (Optional) A good reference managing software to manage your .bib file. Jabref comes highly recommended.

For Linux users, specifically Ubuntu (or Debian based distros) type the following command to install the above software:

sudo apt-get install texmaker texlive-full jabref

What's New?

Version 2.6 (released 2011-05-23) contains the following changes:

• Minor bugfixes.
• Reduced declaration part from 4 lines to 3 lines for a tidier look.
• Added another thesis sample file called thesis_easy, which is easier to understand.

Core Features

• Support thesis written in Malay.
• Conform closely to formatting requirements in UTM Thesis Manual (July 2007).
• Minimal package dependency (required packages: parskip, setspace, acronym, times).
• Support BibTeX users.
• Provide BibTeX styles for both UTM authordate and number citation systems.
• Support natbib package.
• More BibTeX entry examples in tests/bibtex/ directory.
• Finally, no more referencing headaches.
• Support hyperref package to generate inter-page links/bookmarks in PDF.
• Support acronym package to generate List of Symbols/Abbreviations page.
• Includes two thesis samples for new users:
• A simple version.
• A complete version.
• Added an optional list of algorithms.
• Includes two pages showing "insert XXX form here" for ease of replacing with official forms after printing out the thesis:
• Cooperation declaration form.
• PSZ 19:16 form.

Bugs/Issues

If you have any basic problems or need help, please discuss it at utmthesis-discuss group.

If you have found any legitimate bugs or issues, please report and discuss it at the issues page. We will take a look at the problem and try to fix it if possible. However, this is not the place to ask for help, use utmthesis-discuss for that.

Please also report broken links on this homepage and anything else that is inconsistent.