2017-04-13, release 1.4
2012-04-16, release 1.3
This package is a LaTeX2e document style to format UCLA dissertations and theses. This style is based on work from Leslie Lamport, Dorab Patel, Eduardo Krell, Richard B. Wales, and John Heidemann.
The UCLA Graduate Division does not recognize uclathes as a template
for a thesis or dissertation. While countless students have used this
template and successfully filed their manuscripts, the Graduate
Division does not accept the template (or previous submissions) as an
excuse for not meeting the filing requirements. If you find any bugs
or have issues completing the filing process, let us know in the
Issues section with a solution for future students.
UCLA has changed the style requirements for theses and dissertations again as of September 2016. These changes make manuscripts more consistent with the new electronic format that was adopted in 2012. Ryan Rosario updated uclathes-1.3 to match the new style and can confirm that it works as his dissertation was approved under the new rules in Spring 2017. Much of these changes were indicated by Sean Lake and Xiaochen Lian, and their dissertations were approved February 2017 and March 2017 respectively. Ryan's dissertation was approved in April 2017.
Specifically:
- Margins are now 1" on all sides.
- Title and author name on title and abstract pages can no longer bold.
- The small caps \textsc{..} and \scshape titles for title page headers is no longer permitted.
- Title and author name on title and abstract pages can no longer larger than the surrounding text.
- If footnotes are single spaced, they must be separated by a single blank line.
Several other changes were made to make the files less confusing to use:
- Some filenames were changed to better reflect their purpose.
- Extra files required for the demo technical report were renamed and put into an include directory.
After many years, UCLA changed the rules and moved away from paper. (They seem to still have the awful information-sparse double spacing, but maybe in 15 more years...) John Colby updated uclathes-1.2 from 1996 to match the new style, and can confirm that it works as his dissertation was approved under the new rules in late March 2012.
There's a bug in \degreeyear handling. The workaround is described
below in ``KNOWN PROBLEMS''.
I slightly shrunk page size to clearly conform to the requirements (problem reported by David Gast).
An example showing dual-mode formatting is present in demo2*.tex.
My dissertation is formatted either with uclathes.cls (the submission
version) and with report.cls (for my committee and a technical report)
because IMHO the thesis requirements are not optimal. See the manual
for more details how to dual-format your document.
Enclosed in this package are the following files:
uclathes.cls, uclath17.clo, uclathti.clo
These three files implement the LaTeX2e "uclathes" document class.
uclathes.bst
This file implements the BibTeX "uclathes" bibliography style.
thesis_spec.tex
A document describing the "uclathes" style material with tips for
approval. Candidate should read the document
UCLA Thesis and Dissertation Filing Requirements which is the
official specification for the filing format.
demo.tex
An example first few pages of the thesis. The "demo thesis" described
in thesdoc.tex.
demo_techreport.tex and all files in the include directory
These files are not necessary for filing, but provide another demonstration thesis
that can be formatted as a technical report (latex demo_techreport),
Makefile
Automates TeX'ing documents.
README.md
The file you are now reading.
The simplest way to install uclathes is to copy *.cls, *.clo, and *.bst into the directory where you run LaTeX.
Alternatively, you can copy these files into wherever LaTeX looks for its inputs.
Rich Wales has prepared a good manual for uclathes.
Read thesdoc.ps (or format and read thesdoc.tex) before
proceeding.
Moving forward, documentation will be centralized on the GitHub wiki at: https://github.com/uclathes/uclathes/wiki
IMPORTANT: The UCLA Graduate Division maintains a document titled UCLA Thesis and Dissertation Filing Requirements. As of April 2017, the manual is outdated, but the checklist on page 25 is updated and is used to approve manuscripts. https://grad.ucla.edu/gasaa/etd/filingrequirements.pdf
The most recent version of this package can always be found at: https://github.com/uclathes/uclathes/tarball/master
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\bf doesn't work, I get the error:
! Undefined control sequence. l.214 \item{\bf {Air Interface:}}
You're running LaTeX2e, and \bf isn't enabled by default. You should
choose if you want new or old semantics and put \usepackage{newlfont}
or \usepackage{oldlfont} in your document.
I purposely did not include one of these packages in uclathes.cls to
encourage people to convert to the new macros.
- If you don't specify a
\degreeyear, the value on the title page may be wrong. (This bug occurs indemo.ps.)
Work around: always specify \degreeyear.
Alternate work around: find a real uclathes maintainer to fix the bug.
If a thesis formatted with uclathes is rejected by the Theses and Dissertations Advisor, please let us know so we can update it accordingly.
Uclathes is distributed as reply-ware. If you get it and use it and graduate, you're strongly encouraged to send me some e-mail to let me know that my work was not in vain.
--John Heidemann, 12 Jan 1996