Research Guides: Science Services: LaTeX

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Ford Fishman - Data Analysis Specialist for Science

LaTeX is a free typesetting program that you can use to format books, articles, slides, and other types of documents.

LaTeX makes it easy to format things like mathematical formulas, symbols, and lines of poetry, which can be tricky to do in Word or Google Docs.

Why LaTex?
Benefits of using LaTeX and details of the latest release, LaTeX 2e, from the American Mathematical Society.
brandeis-dissertation package at CTAN
The class will enable the user to typeset a dissertation which adheres to the formatting guidelines of Brandeis University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS).
brandeis-thesis package at CTAN
Provides the structures and formatting information for an M.A. thesis for the Brandeis University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

LaTeX with Overleaf Guide
Use your institution-affiliated email address to access your free professional account on Overleaf.com, a cloud-based LaTeX platform for writing and collaboration.

Brandeis Portal on Overleaf.com
Brandeis Portal provides free professional account access, and templates for Brandeis Theses and Dissertations.

If you are working with sensitive or confidential research data, you may need to use LaTeX on your local system. Some tools include:

Download LaTeX
There are many options for LaTeX distributions (software that will let you use LaTeX on your computer). See the LaTeX Project's current recommendations to see which option will work best for you. Scroll down to the TeX Distributions section to see the recommendations for Mac, Windows, and Linux.
TeXstudio
TeXstudio is an open source, integrated writing environment for creating LaTeX documents.
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Our goal is to make writing LaTeX as easy and comfortable as possible. Therefore TeXstudio has numerous features like syntax-highlighting, integrated viewer, reference checking and various assistants.
BibTeX
A tool and a file format which are used to describe and process lists of references, in conjunction with LaTeX documents.