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# How to format my thesis
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Some tips:
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* Scope: A thesis is a self-contained document. Every physicist should be able to understand the contents without additional literature. Every none physicist should get an idea of your work. Give a reasonable introduction to ensure that everybody gets the required basics to understand your work. You can concentrate on the aspects which are important for your topic, but make sure to give a proper citation so that the interested reader can get additional background information. Do not repeat the contants of existing previous works or papers. Summarize them reasonably in the view of your thesis and properly reference them.
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* Citations: Make sure that all statements in your thesis which are not standard textbook physics or a statement of your own work are properly cited. Make sure that you properly reference your graphics if they are taken from somewhere else and indicate if you modified them. A PhD thesis is a publication! To publish copyright protected material in your work permission of the right owner is required. It is debatable how much modification is required to make it 'your own work'.
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* Bibliography: Reference must be complete (just copy&paste from some BibTeX entry you found somehere is often enough). It must be easy to find a reference, that usually means it must contain at least: Who, where, when and ideally also what. References with 300 Authors is not a good style. Use one or three authors 'et al.' (consistently). If possible add the DOI (ideally as link), or if not available the arXiv number, e.g. arXiv:1304.1710. For web-links, provide the permalink (if available). 'Private Communication' is only acceptable if there is really no other source for this information. If this is a collaboration paper, it is a good style to add the collaboration, e.g.
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H. Anderhub et al. [FACT Collaboration], Journal of Instrumentation 8 (2013) P06008 [doi:[10.1088/1748-0221/8/06/P06008](https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/8/06/P06008)]
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