yorkthesis.cls

A simple, modern LaTeX thesis document class which satisfies the format requirements of the University of York, based on the memoir class. Since the specification also restricts the order of certain document sections, an example document is provided as a template. See the Tips and Tricks section for more suggestions.

Every formatting choice explicitly made to adhere to the UoY requirements is clearly marked with a comment beginning with FORMAT.

Tips and Tricks

• The name of your department should appear exactly as in the Depositing your thesis section of the submission guidelines.

• You can use the fixme package to format your todo notes within the document.

• You can use the outlining package to set out a document outline and keep track of what still needs to be written.

• To keep your source tidy you can split it over multiple files. You can find some of the options available for achieving this in the overleaf documentation. Depending on your choice, this has also the potential of speeding up compilation.

• The draft document class option highlights overfull lines with a black square at the end. You can and should safely ignore these until all the text has been finalised, and only then take care of them. Afterwards, just remove the draft option or change it to final.

• The microtype package is invaluable for achieving the cleanest look, but it may slow down the compilation of long documents. If this is the case, you can safely comment it out and re-enable it just before taking care of overfull lines (it will take care of most of those for you).

• The memoir class is extremely customisable, although its manual can be a little daunting. To get you started, you may find more predefined chapter headings in Appendix C and section headings in Section 6.9.

• The example document uses the Latin Modern font, which is a scalable font based on the default Computer Modern font. You can find more examples of viable fonts in the answers to this question on StackExchange.

• I strongly recommend using BibLaTeX to typeset your bibliography, and the example document is already set up for this. However, if you choose to use BibTeX or the embedded system instead, the class correctly renames bibliography section as References. You should also make sure it is included in the Table of Contents.

• You might also wish to check out JabRef, a bibliography manager built around BibTeX and BibLaTeX.

License

Copyright 2020 A. Pezzoni

This work may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3 of this license or (at your option) any later version, with the exception that distribution of Derived Work is not subject to the requirements of section 6.2. The latest version of this license is in

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and version 1.3 or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX version 2005/12/01 or later.

This work has the LPPL maintenance status maintained.

The Current Maintainer of this work is A. Pezzoni.

This work consists of the files yorkthesis.cls, example.tex and README.md.