thesis-sample.tex

\documentclass[thesis]{thesis-umich}


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\usepackage{lipsum}
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\title{\LaTeX~Template for Rackham Dissertations}

% Author name
\author{Jane R. Doe}
\authoremail{jdoe@umich.edu}
\orcidid{9999-9999-9999-9999}

% Department
\department{Mathematics}

% Year of completion
\year=2019


% For each command below, if the page is not needed, comment out the whole command
\dedication{
  This manual is dedicated to all doctoral students at the University of
  Michigan's Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies.
}

\acknowledgments{
  This template has been modified by a lot of people over the years. To the best of my knowledge, it's original version was written by Jin Ji in 1988. Modifications to it have since been made by Roque D.\ Oliveira in 1992, Jason Gilbert  in 2008, Derek Dalle in 2011, and Umang Varma in 2019. It is possible that other people have modified this document (in fact, there is a unattributed change in the changelog dated 1989.11.29).

  \lipsum[1-4]
}

\preface{
  This is a joint work of several people.
}

\committee{
  Professor John D. Brown, Co-Chair,\\
  Professor Emeritus Ann A. Smith, Co-Chair\\
  Dr. Alicia Gonzalez, Mellon Foundation\\
  Assistant Professor Charles Z. Jones\\
  Associate Professor Kathleen X. Lee, Yale University\\
  Associate Professor Horace H. Rackham
}

\foreword{
  This disseration is a sample document using the \texttt{thesis-umich.cls}
  template.
}

\prologue{
  Feel free to write your own master piece.
}
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% Commands to hide or show copyright, lists of figures, tables, etc.
\showcopyright
%\showlistoffigures
%\showlistoftables
%\showlistofmaps
%\showlistofillustrations
\showlistofappendices
%\showlistofabbreviations
%\showlistofacronyms
%\showlistofsymbos


% Definition of any abbreviations used.
%\abbreviations{
% \acro{LS&A}{Literature Science and Arts}
%}

% Some abstract text
\abstract{
  With walk through basic steps of using this \LaTeX~template.
}

% Codes to generate chapters in roman numerals while keep (sub-)section
% in arabic numerals.
% For example, the following code will generate
%    Chapter I
%        Section 1.1
\renewcommand{\thechapter}{\Roman{chapter}} %
\renewcommand{\thesection}{\arabic{chapter}.\arabic{section}} %
\renewcommand{\thesubsection}{\arabic{chapter}.\arabic{section}.\arabic{subsection}} %
%

\begin{document}

\chapter{Using This Template}
The approach to this template is to result in \LaTeX~source files (i.e.,
\texttt{.tex} files) that are as simple as possible.  This is particularly
useful for the first few pages, for example the title page, dedication, and
abstract page, which are difficult to make in \LaTeX~and are supposed to go in
a certain order.

You are welcome to modify \texttt{thesis-umich.cls} to suit your needs or keep
up with modifications to Rackham guidelines. I used this template to submit my
dissertation in 2019, but Rackham can change their rules at any time. If you
have not modified a \texttt{.cls} file before, but know how to define commands
in \TeX, you should not have much trouble, apart from the sneaky \verb=@=
character, which behaves like a letter in \texttt{.cls} files but not in
\texttt{.tex} (see \href{https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/8351/21027}{``What do
  \texttt{\textbackslash makeatletter} and \texttt{\textbackslash makeatother}
do?'' on \TeX\ StackOverflow} and
\href{https://tug.org/pipermail/tugindia/2002-January/000178.html}{``Makeatletter
and Makeatother'' on the \TeX\ Users Group} for more information).

Finally, you should be able to use your preferred bibliography manager (BibTex, BibLaTeX, NatBib, etc.). If the \texttt{\textbackslash bibliography} command is causing trouble, look in \texttt{thesis-umich.cls}, because it was modified there. You can also look at that code for help with formatting bibliographies that are displayed with other commands.

\chapter{Lipsum Test Text Chapter}
\section{Lipsum test text section}
\lipsum[1]


\appendix
\chapter{Example Appendix}

\section{Lists Including the Appendices}
The command
\begin{verbatim}
\showlistofappendices
\end{verbatim}
must appear in the preamble if there are more than one appendices.  For
some reason, Rackham does not want the individual appendices and their
sections to appear in the Table of Contents, so a special List of
Appendices page (which must occur in the Table of Contents!) is required
as a sort of extension to the Table of Contents.

\nocite{*}


\bibliographystyle{alpha}
\bibliography{thesis-bib}

\end{document}