An Unofficial Colorado State University Thesis/Dissertation LaTeX Template

This repository contains a LaTeX template for Colorado State University theses and dissertations. Note that this repository is not the official Colorado State University Thesis/Dissertation LaTeX Template. However, this unofficial LaTeX document class for the Colorado State University Thesis/Dissertation automates generation of some of the preliminary pages (e.g., copyright page) and offers additional flexibility.

Where the formatting guidelines allows, this template defaults to formatting used in publications by the American Meteorological Society. Specifically, the AMS reference and citation format style is used. ametsoc_csu in the \bibliographystyle{} command can be swapped for any user specified .bst file if a different reference and in-text citation format is preferred.

Style optional arguments for the document class

• master - including 'masters' will change 'Doctor of Philosophy' to 'Master of Science' for the degree
• 10pt, 11pt, 12pt - CSU allows the font size of the main text to be within 10-12 pts. The font for the entire manuscript will be set to this value save the page number and footnotes.
• times - Adobe Systems Utopia (1989) is the default serif font. The times optional argument will load the newtxtext and newtxmath packages.
• blue - hyperref is automatically imported, but all urls and references are displayed in black. blue makes the text for urls and references blue rather than black (assumes that hyperref is used)
• smallfoot - makes the page number \scriptsize rather than \footnotesize
• nocopyright - CSU now requires the copyright page. If the style changes back, nocopyright restores older CSU format

No guarantees are made that the template complies to current university style guidelines.

Example LaTeX template

Below is example LaTeX using the template. This example is similar to what is in the ./csu_thesis_and_dissertation_template.tex file.

% Use commas to add additional optional style arguments.
% In this example, we are only using the 11pt option.
\documentclass[11pt]{csuthesis}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% Title page
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
  % Title, your name, and your Dept.
    \title{Epic title here}
    \author{John Doe}
    \departmentname{Atmospheric Science}
  % Graduating term block
    \gradterm{Fall}
    \gradyear{2018}
  % Committee block
    \advisor{Jane Doe}
    \coadvisor{John Doe} %optional
    \committee{Jane Doe \and John Doe \and Jane Doe}
\begin{document}
  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
  % PRELIMINARIES
  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
    \begin{abstract}
        % Abstract text here
    \end{abstract}
    \begin{acknowledgments}     % optional (delete section if unwanted)
        % Acknowledgment text here
    \end{acknowledgments}
    \begin{dedication}          % optional (delete section if unwanted)
        % Dedication text here
    \end{dedication}
  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
  % Make Title Page and Table of Contents
  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
    \maketitle
    \tableofcontents
    \listoftables    %optional (delete line if unwanted)
    \listoffigures   %optional (delete line if unwanted)
  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
  % CHAPTERS and/or TEXT
  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
    % Using input is a nice way to help organize your work
    \input{./chap1/chapter1.tex}
  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
  % REFERENCES
  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
  % Create a bibliography directory and place your .bib file there.
    {\clearpage}
    \bibliographystyle{ametsoc_csu}
    {\setstretch{1}
    \bibliography{references}}
\end{document}

Journal papers in a thesis/dissertation

To include published work in your thesis/dissertation, the Graduate School say that "any references to journal publications, authors, etc. on your chapter pages or major heading pages should be listed as a footnote." These footnotes must be numbered.

To avoid having the footnote mark appearing in the Table of Contents, you need to trick LaTeX (there might be a better options, but this is the best solution I have found).

1. create the new command with your chapter title before \begin{document}

   \newcommand{\mytitle}{Awesome chapter title}

2. replace your chapter title with the following LaTeX.
   • Change \mytitle to the value used in 1)
   • In \ref, create a unique label
   • Set the \addtocounter value manually
   • Change the \label in \footnotetext to the same value as \ref
   • Add your text to the \footnotetext. Note, \citet and \citep may or may not work for you so you might just have to type the reference

   \chapter[\mytitle]{%
       \for{toc}{\mytitle}\except{toc}{\mytitle\textsuperscript{\ref{foot:mytitle}}}%
   }
   \addtocounter{footnote}{1}
   \footnotetext{\label{foot:mytitle}This chapter contains material from \protect\citet{}.}