These notes are a running commentary on important points in the Office of Graduate Studies Style Manual. Get it, open it, and read along in that and in this file. Authorities: OGS-SM: Office of Graduate Studies Style Manual OGS: Office of Graduate Studies verbal confirmation We begin on page 7 of the OGS-SM: Copyright: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The current OGS-SM says that the copyright notice, if used, should look like this: Copyright (c) Full Name Year on pages 7 and 13. However, on page 25, the example shows Copyright (c) Year by Full Name According to OGS, either is fine; gatech-thesis uses the latter format. Fonts ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The OGS-SM only lists the following approved fonts (and sizes): Arial (11) -- N/A on most TeX systems Courier (11 or 12) -- available, but Why? Century Gothic (11 or 12) -- N/A Geneva (11) -- N/A Helvetica (11 or 12) -- available, but poor math support Times (12) -- available (use mathptmx or txfonts) But the OGS-SM doesn't mention Computer Modern, which is the default font for TeX, and which has the best math support. OGS has confirmed that Computer Modern, 11 or 12 point, is acceptable. (In TeX, unless you want to pay for proprietary fonts, your only other realistic choice of a font with decent support for mathematical symbles is Times, using the mathptmx package. See julesverne/bellswhistles/jules-verne.sty for more information. Margins ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ By default, the GATECH-THESIS class uses the "new" margin specification (1" on top, right, and bottom, 1.5" on left, major headings just inside that 1" top margin). To use the "old" margins (1" on bottom and right, 1.5" on left and top, except that pages with major headings have a 2" top margin), call gatech-thesis with the 'oldmargins' option: \documentstyle[oldmargins]{gatech-thesis} But this is not recommended. Use the default, "new" margins. Spacing ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Line spacing is double throughout, except where the OGS-SM specifically says that it should be single (captions, within bibliography entries, etc). Don't change this. Page Numbers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The 'plain' pagestyle, which is used by GATECH-THESIS by default, places the page numbers at the center within the bottom margin, 0.5" from the bottom of the page. This is the OGS-SM specification. For official copies, this should not be changed. For personal copies ONLY: You can use the 'tcplain' pagestyle which puts the page numbers at the upper right corner (upper outside corner for twosided printouts[*]). You can also try the 'gtthesis' pagestyle, which for onesided printouts puts the pagenumber at the upper right, and the chapter title in the upper left (for twosided, the pagenumber is on the outside upper corner; the chapter title is on the upper inside corner of right-hand pages, and the section title is on the upper inside corner of left-hand pages). See the julesverne/bellswhistles/jules-verne.sty file for an example of how to do this. [*] 'twosided' doesn't simply mean that you happen to print on a duplex printer. It means that you invoke GATECH-THESIS with the 'twoside' option: \documentclass[twoside]{gatech-thesis} Don't do this except for personal copies (it's the default in draft mode -- which are personal by definition). Footnotes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Nothing special here; use standard LaTeX tools (\footnote, \endnote) to do this. Preliminary Pages ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The frontmatter pages will automatically obey the proper margin guidelines (especially the topmargin) depending on whether you use the default (1") margins, or choose the "old" margins (2" on major heading pages, like titlepage, etc). Title Page ---------------- Counts as page i, but not marked. Commands which can mmodify the appearance: \titlepagefalse (\titlepagetrue is the default) Don't print a title page \documentclass[oldmargins]{gatech-thesis} See the Margins section above. Volume I Title page ---------------- If your thesis spans multiple volumes, then you should invoke the \multivolumetrue command within your preamble. This will cause GATECH-THESIS to automatically generate the Volume I title page (which is separate from the "real" title page) immediately after the real title page. Volume title pages are not numbered, and *do not count* in the page number sequence. So, oddly, you will have titlepage i volume title page - approval page ii Just go with it; this weird behavior has been confirmed by OGS (even though it isn't all that clear in the OGS-SM) Commands which modiry the appearance: \multipagetrue (\multipagefalse is the default) Print it. \documentclass[oldmargins]{gatech-thesis} See the Margins section above. Approval page ---------------- Also known as the signature page, this is generated by default. To suppress, invoke the \signaturepagefalse command. The signature lines will be generated (in order) for each one of the following commands that have been invoked (uninvoked ones will be skipped): \principaladvisor{a name} \committeechair{a name} \firstreader{a name} \secondreader{a name} \thirdreader{a name} \fourthreader{a name} \fifthreader{a name} \sixthreader{a name} You don't need to invoke them all; just the ones you need. The \principaladvisor and \committechair ones are special; in addition to the names, the titles ("Committee Chair", "Advisor") are also printed. If there are less than five signatures to be printed, then the signature lines will be in a single column. If there are more than five, then the signatures will be typeset in two columns, as per the OGS-SM. This page is number ii, but the page number is not printed (per OGS-SM). Commands which can modify the appearance: \signaturepagefalse (default is \signaturepagetrue) suppress printing a signature page Dedication page ---------------- \begin{dedication} ... dedication text ... \end{dedication} Text on this page will be automatically centered vertically, per the OGS-SM. However, that looks unbalanced; for personal copies you may wish to override the following two commands as follows: \renewcommand{\dedicationtop}{\vspace*{\stretch{1}} \renewcommand{\dedicationbottom{\vspace*{\stretch{3}} This positions the text at about 1/4 of the way down the page, which looks better in my opinion. But ONLY do this for personal copies. Also, if you invoke the \dedicationheadingtrue command in your preamble, then the dedication page will have a big "DEDICATION" heading on it. Don't do this; it is only provided for backward- compatibility with the (very) old gtthesis.sty -- and this ugliness was required by the old OGS-SM (but no longer). Commands which can modify the appearance: \dedicationheadingtrue (default is \dedicationheadingfalse) print a big "DEDICATION" title at the top of the page Acknowledgements page ---------------- \begin{acknowledgements} ... acknowledgements text ... \end{acknowledgements} nothing special here About the next several sections (the 'Lists'): If you are using the hyperref package, you MUST use hyperref's breaklinks option. If you do not, and there is a section title or figure caption that spans multiple lines, hyperref will prevent it from breaking at the margin (it will stay all on one line, and go off the page). \usepackage[breaklinks,]{hyperref} See julesverne/bellswhistles/jules-verne.sty for a good way to handle this. Table of Contents ---------------- \contents In general, this should "just work". By invoking the \contents command somewhere within the preliminary environment in your document, GATECH-THESIS will automatically create a Table of Contents (and List of Figures and List of Tables[*]) that matches the requirements of the OGS-SM. Specifically, that means 1) Chapter titles, sections, subsections, and subsubsections are listed (the OGS-SM requires at least chapters, sections, and subsections) 2) Each entry is singlespaced within, but doublespaced between [*] assuming the \tablespagefalse, \figurespagefalse commands were not invoked. However, there are ways to customize the look of the TOC (but don't use them in official copies...) \contentspagefalse don't print the TOC at all (bad idea...) \labelchaptersintableofcontents inserts an entry into the TOC that says ``CHAPTERS''. Obviously, you should invoke this just before you begin chapter 1. However, there's a slight glitch due to a bug in LaTeX: see julesverne/bellswhistles/hack-part.tex for more info. \labelappendicesintableofcontents inserts an entry into the TOC that says ``APPENDICES''. Obviously, you should invoke this just before you begin the first appendix (before or after the '\appendix' command; it doesn't matter). However, there's a slight glitch due to a bug in LaTeX: see julesverne/bellswhistles/hack-part.tex for more info. \settocstring{a string} change the name used for the Table of Contents (def: 'Table of Contents') \setchaptertocdepth{a number} set how ``deep'' to number within chapters in the table of contents. This defaults to '2', which means chapters, sections, and subsections, You may wish to set this to '3' (thus adding subsubsections) -- but don't use '0' or '1' because the OGS-SM requires that chapters, sections, and subsections are listed in the TOC. \setappendixtocdepth{a number} set how ``deep'' to number within appendices (chapter{}''s after the \appendix command) in the table of contents. This defaults to '0', which means list the Appendices themselves alone, with no sections. This is the OGS-SM default; but you may list smaller divisions as well by setting this to 1, 2, or 3. \settocdepth temporarily change how "deep" to number in the table of contents for current chapter/section. For example, you usually include \subsection{}''s in the TOC (\setchaptertocdepth{2}) but in chapter 5 you want to include subsubsections as well: \chapter{This is Chapter 5}\settocdepth{3}. In chapter 6 the default depth of 2 is reasserted. Change the overall defaults using the above two commands instead. \multivolumetrue \part{} If \multivolumetrue is invoked in the preamble, then the very first item in the TOC is the phrase "Volume I" centered (with no page number) It is only inserted to show where the volume divisions are, but since the volume title pages have no number, then neither do the volume labels in the TOC. Also, another "Volume II" label (III, IV, ...) is inserted into the TOC each time \part{} is invoked. But, see julesverne/bellswhistles/hack-part.tex for information about working around a LaTeX bug. This particular bit of magic is not discussed at all in the OGS-SM, but OGS has seen and approved the results. List of Tables ---------------- \contents In general, this should "just work". By invoking the \contents command somewhere within the preliminary environment in your document, GATECH-THESIS will automatically create a List of Tables (and List of Figures and Table of Contents[*]) that matches the requirements of the OGS-SM. Specifically, that means 1) Each entry is singlespaced within, but doublespaced between 2) OGS-SM requires that the entries in the List of Tables exactly match the captions at each table. This means you should not use the `\caption[short caption]{long caption}' construction; just use `\caption{the caption}'. [*] assuming the \contentspagefalse, \figurepagesfalse commands were not invoked. However, there are ways to customize the look of the LOT (but don't use them in official copies...) \setlotstring change the name used for the List of Tables (def: 'List of Tables') List of Figures ---------------- \contents In general, this should "just work". By invoking the \contents command somewhere within the preliminary environment in your document, GATECH-THESIS will automatically create a List of Figures (and List of Tables and Table of Contents[*]) that matches the requirements of the OGS-SM. Specifically, that means 1) Each entry is singlespaced within, but doublespaced between 2) OGS-SM requires that the entries in the List of Figures exactly match the captions at each table. This means you should not use the `\caption[short caption]{long caption}' construction; just use `\caption{the caption}'. [*] assuming the \contentspagefalse, \tablespagefalse commands were not invoked. However, there are ways to customize the look of the LOF (but don't use them in official copies...) \setlofstring change the name used for the List of Figures (def: 'List of Figures') List of Symbols or Abbreviations ---------------- \usepackage{gatech-thesis-losa} This is not generated by default, since it isn't widely used (but every thesis has tables and figures). Also, the implementation provided requires additional packages that are not included with this distribution. To generate a List of Symbols or Abbreviations (LOSA), you simply do the following in your preamble: \usepackage{gatech-thesis-losa} \losafiles{} gatech-thesis-losa.sty depends on and automatically loads the gloss.sty package -- but you need to insure that gloss.sty is installed in your TeX system. By doing this, the LOSA will be automatically generated and included in the frontmatter, just after the LOF -- and it will be added to the TOC. Of course, you need actual *entries* in the symbols database file -- which must end in .bib; see the gloss.sty documentation for the appropriate format. You also need actual citations to those entries within your bodytext, like this: \losa{key}. Note that \losa{} typesets the from the entry of the losafile within the text, so there''s no need to do this: (BAD) word\losa{key-for-word} Again, you should read the gloss.sty documentation for more info, but basically gatech-thesis-losa.sty makes it simple: 1. insert the two commands above into your preamble 2. create a database with your glossary definitions 3. sprinkle \losa{} citations in your text 4. run ``bibtex'' on the .losa.aux file created after the first ``latex'' run. (But don''t include the .aux extension. So say ``bibtex .losa'' You can do this at the same time you run ``bibtex'' for your references. 5. run ``latex'' twice more To customize the List of Symbols or Abbreviations, you can use the following commands \setlosastring{a string} change the name used for the List of Symbols or Abbreviations (def: 'List of Symbols or Abbreviations') \setlength{\losahang}{a dimension} The GSO prefers that the symbol descriptions are rigidly separated from the symbols themselves. Sometimes, if you have very long symbols/abbreviations, you may need to make \losahang bigger than its default value of 2cm, by using a command similar to the following, within your document preamble: \setlength{\losahang}{4cm} Glossary ---------------- \usepackage{gatech-thesis-gloss} This is not generated by default, since it isn't widely used (but every thesis has tables and figures). Also, the implementation provided requires additional packages that are not included with this distribution. Finally, the current OGS-SM doesn't say anything about a Glossary or List of Nomenclature, so we're on our own, here. However, the old OGS-SM did mention it, briefly. To generate a Glossary or List of Nomenclature, you simply do the following in your preamble: \usepackage{gatech-thesis-gloss} \glossfiles{} gatech-thesis-gloss.sty depends on and automatically loads the gloss.sty package -- but you need to insure that gloss.sty is installed in your TeX system. By doing this, the glossary will be automatically generated and included in the frontmatter, just after the LOF (or LOSA, if you have it) -- and it will be added to the TOC. Of course, you need actual *entries* in the glossary database file -- which must end in .bib; see the gloss.sty documentation for the appropriate format. You also need actual citations to those entries within your bodytext, like this: \gloss{key}. Note that \gloss{} typesets the from the entry of the glossfile within the text, so there''s no need to do this: (BAD) word\gloss{keyforword} Read the gloss.sty documentation for more info, but basically gatech-thesis-gloss.sty makes it simple: 1. insert the two commands above into your preamble 2. create a glossfile with your glossary definitions 3. sprinkle \gloss{} citations in your text 4. run ``bibtex'' on the .gls.aux file created after the first ``latex'' run. (But don''t include the .aux extension. So say ``bibtex .gls'' You can do this at the same time you run ``bibtex'' for your references. 5. run ``latex'' twice more To customize the Glossary or List of Nomenclature, you can use the following commands \setglossstring{a string} change the name used for the List of Symbols or Abbreviations (def: 'List of Symbols or Abbreviations') \setlength{\glosshang}{a dimension} Unlike the \losahang comment above, it doesn't make sense to rigidly separate the description from the glossary terms; the glossary terms are usually too long for this to be aesthetic. However, this has NOT been confirmed by OGS. If you use a glossary, be sure to confirm that the current behavior is okay. If not, then you can use \setlength{\glosshang}{a dimension} to fix it. Summary ---------------- \begin{summary} ... summary text ... \end{summary} Nothing special to say here Other frontmatter ---------------- Before we leave the "Preliminary pages" section (pg. 15 of the OGS-SM), there are a few additional environments that are provided by the GATECH-THESIS class, but are not discussed in the OGS-SM: The entire "frontmatter" section should be enclosed within the "preliminary" environment, like this: \begin{document} \begin{preliminary} \begin{dedication} dedication text \end{dedication} ... etc ... \contents \begin{summary} summary text \end{summary} \end{preliminary} ... chapters ... Preface ---------------- \begin{preface} ... preface text ... \end{preface} The (current) OGS-SM doesn't mention a preface, but if used it should go after the dedication. The old OGS-SM did mention it. Forward ---------------- \prefacesection{Forward}{% ... forward text ... } The (current) OGS-SM doesn't mention a preface, but if used it should go after the dedication. The old OGS-SM did mention it. There is no 'Forward' envronment; you can use the \prefacesection command to create any frontmatter section you like, as follows: \prefacesection{title of the section}{section text} Text Pages ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ \chapter{chapter title} chapter text ... \chapter{the next chapter title} chapter text ... \appendix \chapter{appendix title} appendix text ... \chapter{the next appendix title} appendix text ... Section Heading Formats --------------- The new OGS-SM no longer specifies what the section, subsection, or subsubsection headings should look like; according to OGS, they don't really care: as long as it looks professional and you are consistent. I chose to define these as follows: Sections: Large, Bold, Italic, Flush left SubSections: Bold, Flush left SubSubSections: Italic, indented If you wish to override and define your own formats, you can either \renewcommand{\section}{ ... } (see any good LaTeX book), or \usepackage{titlesec}. I recommend the latter. Actually, I recommend leaving it alone; concentrate on writing your dissertation and don't get distracted by messing around with formatting. You can use a number of special environments for specific purposes. The first two are useful; avoid the other four. \begin{longquote}...\end{longquote}: Single-spaced version of the ``quote'' environment. \begin{longquotation}...\end{longquotation}: Single-spaced version of the ``quotation'' environment. \begin{singlespaced}...\end{singlespaced}: Format single-spaced paragraphs. \begin{oneandahalfspaced}...\end{oneandahalfspaced}: Format 1 1/2-spaced paragraphs. \begin{doublespaced}...\end{doublespaced}: Format double-spaced paragraphs. \begin{newspacing}{}...\end{newspacing}: Format paragraphs with an interline spacing of ``n''. Reference Material ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Nothing really special to say here. Appendices ---------------- See the 'Text Pages' section above, as well as the 'Table of Contents' discussion above. References ---------------- \bibfiles{a .bib database}% in the preamble \bibliographystyle{gatech-thesis}% just after \begin{document} \references% somewhere in the postliminary env. Within the \postliminary environment, execute the \references command to generate an OGS-SM compliant bibliography. The gatech-thesis.bst style is: numeric labels, sorted, IEEE abbreviations (vol. not volume, no. not number, authors' first names abbreviated), quotes around article titles, commas separate all fields except after book titles and before "notes". Authors names typeset in small caps, surname first. This has been approved by OGS. You may also use the 'plain' bibliography style (\bibliographystyle{plain}), if you wish. Vita ---------------- \begin{vita} ... vita text ... \end{vita} This should be the very last page of your disseration, and should come immediately before \end{postliminary}\end{document}. Index ---------------- \usepackage{gatech-thesis-index} This is not generated by default, since it isn't widely used (but every thesis has tables and figures). Also, the implementation provided requires additional packages that are not included with this distribution. Finally, the current OGS-SM doesn't say anything about an index; neither did the old OGS-SM. To generate an index, do the following in your preamble: \usepackage{gatech-thesis-index} and execute \gtindex somewhere in the postliminary environment of your thesis. Remember, VITA should be last, so \gtindex must precede it. gatech-thesis-index.sty depends on and automatically loads the index.sty package and the multicol.sty package -- but you need to insure that index.sty and multicol.sty are installed in your TeX system (index.sty is included in the `camel' package on MikTeX and CTAN). By doing this, the index will be automatically generated and included in the TOC. Of course, you need actual *index references* within your document, like this: foo\index{foo}. Read the index.sty documentation for more info, but basically gatech-thesis-index.sty makes it simple: 1. insert the \usepackage and \gtindex commands into your document 2. sprinkle \index{} citations in your text 3. run ``makeindex'' on the .idx file created after the first ``latex'' run, like this: makeindex -s gatech-thesis-index.ist .idx This will create .ind (the gatech-thesis-index.ist file is a format specification for the index). If you want to customize the index format, copy gatech-thesis-index.ist to ``myformat.ist'' and change the copy. Use ``-s myformat.ist'' instead of gatech-thesis-index.ist. You can run the makeindex command at the same time you run ` `bibtex'' for your references and/or glossary. 4. run ``latex'' twice more (the same ``twice more'' needed for bibtex and gatech-thesis-gloss.sty) To customize the Index, you can use the following commands \setindexstring{a string} change the name used for the Index (def: 'Index') Tables and Figures ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Some useful packages you might want to investigate include subfigure -- place multiple figures within a single 'figure' environment floatingfigure -- for figures that do not take up the full width of the page, you may issue this command between paragraphs, and the next paragraph will be typeset next to the narrow figure. OGS does accept this sort of thing, but... wrapfig -- ditto, but with a difference: you may issue this command inside a paragraph, but LaTeX will NOT optimize the figure's position -- which might lead to extra whitespace, mostly empty pages, etc. Recommend against. longtable -- for tables that extend beyond a single page (don't use the supertab package, it can't handle secondary caption properly) Captions: --------------- The OGS-SM requires that Table captions be placed before the caption, and Figure captions be placed after the figure. You can only do this manually; it can't be automatted. To create a table, do this: \begin{table}[tbp] \caption{the caption} \label{the label}% must come after the caption \begin{center} \begin{tabular} .... \end{tabular} \end{center} \end{table} For a figure, do this: \begin{figure}[tbp] \begin{center} \includegraphics[some options]{a graphics file} \end{center} \caption{the caption} \label{the label}% must come after the caption \end{table} Notice that the \caption{} command comes before the actual tabular in the table, but comes after the includegraphics in the figure. This is the only way to insure that the captions go where the OGS-SM requires. The caption format is (by default) 'Figure X: caption-text', and the 'Figure X:' part is typeset in bold, while the caption-text is typeset in 'normal weight' like the rest of the body text. To change this, use the caption2 package (note that \usepackage[bf]{caption2} will result in captions that are identical to the GATECH-THESIS default). But for an official GT thesis, you want the default; for personal copies, I like using san-serif bold like so: (DON'T DO THIS) \usepackage[sf,bf]{caption2} Placement -------------- LaTeX usually does a fairly decent job of obeying rational placement rules for 'floats' (e.g. tables and figures). If you need to force a float to a specific location (note that using the 'h' option for the figure/table environments does not do what you think it does; nor does using the '!' option), try the following: \usepackage{float} \restylefloat{figure}% or table \begin{figure}[H]% <<< note the 'H' for 'Here' However, this can really get you into trouble: the H'ed figure could get placed before a non-H'ed one, even if it follows the non-H'ed figure in the document source. This will cause, for example, Figure 4 to be on a page before Figure 3! To work around this, you could *additionally* \usepackage{afterpage} and use \afterpage{\clearpage\begin{figure}[H]...\end{figure}} But THAT can lead to pages will very little text, and lots of empty white space -- which itself is a violation of the OGS-SM. Think about it. Do you REALLY care if a figure is 2 or 3 pages away from the text that references it? You're writing a 100+ page document...messing with float placement is usually more trouble than it is worth. Don't. For more information, see section 6.2 in the LaTeX companion. If you need to turn a figure or table on its side (landscape), use the 'rotating' package. Numbering ---------------- LaTeX will handle the Figure # and Table # sequences for you. For tables that will extend over more than one page, use the 'longtable' package. To follow the OGS-SM requirement that subsequent pages of the same page also have captions, and that these captions say only Table XX (cont'd) you must pay careful attention when constructing the table (and the longtable environment is different from the table environment plus a tabular). However, the best we can do -- without massive TeX code, is that subsequent captions are Table XX: (cont'd) (the ':' is not in the original requirements). However, to even get this far, you must do something like this: \begin{longtable}[c]{|c|c|c|} \caption{the `real' caption} \\ \hline Column A & Column B & Column C \\ \hline \endfirsthead% the preceding will be invoked ONLY at the % beginning of the table \caption[]{(cont'd)}% <<<<< This is the magic caption \\ \hline column a & column b & column c \\ %\hline -- not necessary % longtable takes care of it for us. \endhead% the preceding will be invoked at the top % of every page except the first one % now we do the data... 1 & 2 & 3 \\ \hline 4 & 5 & 6 \\ \hline .... \end{longtable} The 'magic' caption[]{(cont'd)} statement within the header section means that every page (except the first) will get that caption -- but since it has an empty optional argument, the '(con't)' will NOT get listed in the LOT, and the table counter will not be incremented. Which is what we want. Note that longtables are not floating; they will go exactly where you put them. (There is no need for a longtable to float; it is able to break at the pagebreak and continue on the next page). However, don't use longtable for everything tabular; a 4-line table will look really silly broken across two pages. You can also play games with 'continued on next page' and 'continued from previous page' within the table itself, by using \endfoot and \endlastfoot commands and the multicolumn command. See the longtable documentation, and Chapter 5 of the LaTeX Companion. Citations of Tables and Figures ---------------- The OGS-SM states that you should always reference figures as 'Figure 10' and tables as 'Table 4'. However, you don't want a linebreak (or worse, a page break) to occur betwen 'Table' and '4'; further, you don't want TeX to hyphenate 'Fig'-'ure'. So, in LaTeX, this means if you have a figure with the label {myfigure} and a table with the label {mytable}, you should cite them as: \mbox{Figure~\ref{myfigure}} \mbox{Table~\ref{mytable}} It's probably a good idea to simply define new commands in your preamble: \newcommand{\figref}[1]{\mbox{Figure~\ref{#1}}} \newcommand{\tabref}[1]{\mbox{Table~\ref{#1}}} because sooner or later, you WILL forget to type all that extra junk. Just define the new commands as you like, and then do \figref{myfigure} \tabref{mytable} and be done. Note that these commands are NOT provided by GATECH-THESIS; not being strictly necessary, I don't want to cramp any potential users' style by forcing my way. However, see the julesverne/bellswhistles/jules-verne.sty file... Multivolume Theses or Dissertations ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ \multivolumetruee \part{} This was already covered in the Table of Contents section, above. One note, however: don't attempt to "name" your volumes. That is, use \part{}, not \part{Title of Volume II} GATECH-THESIS will handle it if you do name your volumes -- but the OGS-SM doesn't allow it, and there is no way short of redefining the entire 'preliminary' environment to give Volume I a name.