\documentclass[thesis]{thesis-gwu}[2018/05/21] % this package is only used to generate some random text. % it is not needed in a true document \usepackage{lipsum} \input{tex/frontmatter} % this will speed up your tikz figures by building them once to another directory \usepackage{pgfplots} \usepgfplotslibrary{external} \tikzexternalize \tikzsetexternalprefix{cache/} %% DOCUMENT AREA \begin{document} \include{tex/manual} \include{tex/results} \bibliographystyle{plain} \bibliography{thesis-bib} % appendices must appear after \include{tex/appendix} \end{document}