# Thesis templates: Instructions for BSc students # University of Helsinki, Faculty of Science, Department of Computer Science #### STEP 0 - Copy the thesis template for yourself One template for all theses: https://version.helsinki.fi/cs/thesis-template You can download this template as a ZIP-file from the download-button. You can also clone this template from the clone-button, as you would any Git-repository. Either way, copy the whole repository for yourself. #### STEP 1 - Bachelor's thesis or seminar report. 1) Select whether your are writing Bachelor's thesis (tkt) or a seminar report (seminar) 2) Select your language: finnish, english, or swedish #### STEP 2 - Set up your personal information 1) Write the working title of your thesis / report 2) Write your name to the author field 3) Write the names of your supervisors of the thesis (can be omitted for seminars) #### STEP 3 - Write your abstract here 1) You can also have the abstract in multiple languages with: \begin{otherlanguage}{english} \begin{abstract} Your abstract text goes here. \end{abstract} \end{otherlanguage} #### STEP 4 - Writing your thesis / report 1) There are some instructions on writing the thesis in \[bsc\]_\[finnish/english]_contents files. 2) You can delete the contents of finnish_contents/english_contents file and write your thesis inside that file. 3) For seminar reports, make adjustments as needed (limited support currently) #### STEP 5 - Set your bibliography style 1) The default is Numbering alphabetic order, which should be used in most cases