Engineering 

The guidelines for preparing your dissertation or thesis can be found on the Commercial Bindery site.

Important: It's your responsibility to make sure that your dissertation conforms to all the JHU guidelines, or it will not be accepted.)

This guide contains:

• A brief introduction to TeX and LaTeX
  
  
• Using LaTeX to create your dissertation or thesis 
  
  
• RefWorks and LaTeX for bibliographies (pdf)
  
  
• Additional resources --search for LaTeX books or explore links for compilers, online documentation, and tutorials

Lyx is a graphical user interface for LaTeX. The website is  www.lyx.org ,  not .com.

It removes the need for any programming knowledge of LaTeX, and it allows you to create LaTeX-formatted documents through a system resembling Word.

LyX has very complete documentation, and is usable on Windows, MacOS, and Linux.