Thesis-specific structure

Theses follow conventions that the converter recognises: title page, abstract, acknowledgements, table of contents, list of figures/tables, chapters (typically 5–7), references/bibliography, appendices. The heading hierarchy is preserved as Markdown headings, so the result has a clean nested structure that renders well in academic-friendly viewers.

Citations and bibliography

If your thesis uses Word's built-in citations and bibliography (Insert → Citation), the in-text citations are preserved in their format (numbered [12] or author-date (Smith, 2023)) and the bibliography becomes a final ## References section. Footnote-style citations (Chicago, OSCOLA) become Markdown footnotes. EndNote and Zotero citations embedded as fields are converted to text representations of the citation.

Equations and special content

Equations created in Word's Equation Editor (or pasted from MathType) are converted to LaTeX, wrapped in $$...$$ for display equations and $...$ for inline. The output renders in any Markdown viewer with MathJax/KaTeX support. Tables follow the same logic as word-tables-to-markdown. For PDF versions of the thesis, see PDF to Markdown for Researchers.