This document describes how to create high quality PDF from LATEX sources and provides some valuable tips. The creation tools are ps2pdf, Adobe distiller, dvipdfm, or pdflatex. It also explains the famous hyperref package for bookmakrs, WWW links, internal links, and more.

This document describes how to (i) modify citation styles in your body text, (ii) make your
own bibliography style (.bst) file using the custom-bib program (from CTAN), and (iii) modify the bibliography style file for your taste or book company's taste.

Prosper is one of the PDF presentation tools. It provides both PS out for transparencies and PDF for screen presentation. Its flow is latex -> dvips -> ps2pdf, not dvipdfm nor pdflatexx. Prosper supprots hyper links, transitions, and overlays (key of PDF presentation). One of the most important features of Prosper is that it fully supports PSTricks. [TeX Source] [Style File]

Beamer is another excellent PDF presentation tool with lots of dynamic and fancy effects. It supports dvips and pdftex.

If your college or university does not provide LaTeX style file for your dissertation, then you may consult on this guide. I used a double sided book class with natbib, chapterbib, rotating, fancyhr, setspace, txfonts, and some more.