natbib-like frontend for chicago-style macros

For some reason, the ACM has baked in chicago-like citation macros into the ACM SIG proceedings LaTeX templates instead of using the far superior natbib that literally everyone else on the planet uses. I'm much more accustomed to typing \citet as opposed to \shortciteN, \citeauthor as opposed to \shortciteANP, etc. So I decided to add this little translation table to my preamble:

\def\citet{\shortciteN}
\def\Citet{\shortciteN}
\def\citeauthor{\shortciteANP}
\def\Citeauthor{\shortciteANP}

\let\chicagociteyear\citeyear
\def\citeyearpar{\chicagociteyear}
\def\citeyear{\citeyearNP}

\def\citep{\shortcite}

Unfortunately, that means I can't use any of the optional arguments to \citep or \citet. If you are just looking for a translation table so you can use the chicago-style macros directly, try this:

natbib	chicago
\citet or \Citet	\shortciteN
\citeauthor or \Citeauthor	\shortciteANP
\citeyear	\citeyearNP
\citeyearpar	\citeyear
\citep	\shortcite

It's crazy how chicago-style macros sometimes use "N" to mean "noun" and other times to be the first half of "NP" being "no parentheses."

natbib-compatible BibTeX style (BST) file for Springer LNCS publications

UPDATE: Additionally, if you prefer "References" instead of "Bibliography", you have to re-define the \bibname macro in your document (e.g., just after you include natbib). Just add a

\rewewcommand\bibname{\refname}

or a

\renewcommand\bibname{References}

and you should be up and running with your desired bibliography name.

For some reason, the folks over at Springer do not like to make their BibTeX style (BST) files natbib compatible. This omission seems egregious when considering the kind of authors that would submit to journals and conferences that use LNCS-style formatting. Springer does provide LaTeX support files for LNCS, but the included BST file is not natbib compatible (because it was not built with natbib and author–year extensions turned on, which are needed in natbib even when numbered references are used). What makes things more difficult is that it is produced by hacking another BST (titto.bst) that was originally generated properly using makebst, and many of the hacks were already implemented natively in merlin.mbs. So much more of the postfix BST language was hacked directly rather than would have been necessary if the correct docstrip driver options were picked in the first place. So that makes it more challenging to reproduce a refactored version with additional natbib functionality without worrying about introducing regressions.

Nevertheless, I've done my best, and I've made the the natbib-compatible result splncsnat.bst available for download. I was able to remove the need for some of the manual editing by a smarter choice of docstrip options, but I still ended up having to create a patch on top of a stock docstrip-generated BST (the docstrip driver splncsnat-unpatched.dbj and patch splncsnat.patch are also available). Hopefully that helps someone out there.

• splncsnat.bst: natbib-compatible BST file for Springer LNCS-type publications

  Download and place splncsnat.bst in same directory as document's TeX source code. In the TeX preamble of the document, use

  \usepackage[numbers]{natbib}
  \bibliographystyle{splncsnat}

  and then in the text use macros like

  \cite{smith77}       % to get a "[1]" in the text
  \citep{smith77}      % to get a "[1]" in the text
  \citet{smith77}      % to get a "Smith [1]" in the text
  \citeauthor{smith77} % to get a "Smith" in the text

  The normal \bibliography{FILENAME} can be used at the end of the text where the BBL will be inserted by BibTeX.

• splncsnat-unpatched.dbj: docstrip driver used to generate splncsnat-unpatched.bst
• splncsnat.patch: patch used to generate splncsnat.bst from splncsnat-unpatched.bst (assuming version 4.20 [2007/04/24 (PWD, AO, DPC)] of merlin.mbs)

Of course, you need only splncsnat.bst to get up and running.

natbib-compatible BST file for Royal Socety journals

I just whipped up rspublicnat.bst, which is a natbib-compatible BibTeX style file (BST) for the Royal Society journals (e.g., Proceedings of the Royal Society A and B and others).

FYI, the BST can be regenerated by applying LaTeX (i.e., docstrip) to rspublicnat.dbj and then applying rspublicnatbst.patch (with patch) to the resulting BST file. The patched result should closely match the Royal Society's bibliographic conventions for both in-line and listed references.

Fixing natbib: Adding tie between author and citation

Something that bugs me about natbib is that \citet puts a formal SPACE between the authors and the citation list, and so LaTeX like...

. . . as discussed by \citet{SK86}.

that shows up near the end of a typeset line can turn into

as discussed by Stephens and Krebs
[1].

Not only does this put a number at the beginning of a line, which is a typography no-no when you aren't starting a numerical item in a list, but it separates the citation list from its neighbors. If natbib would just us a TIE (~ in TeX) instead, then the "Krebs" in the example above would never get separated from the "[1]."

The best solution is to fix natbib so that this character is configurable. That would really help when using superscript references because you could get rid of the character all together (right now superscripts get a space before them, and that looks a little silly (especially when superscripts show up on the next line!)). However, that could take a while to get fixed (CTAN isn't quite SourceForge)... So I put together the following fix, which should work OK for \citet, \citet*, \Citet, and \Citet* regardless of how many optional arguments (0, 1, or 2) are present.

(note: the \makeatletter and \makeatother commands are not needed if these lines are put into a .sty file or in a natbib.cfg file (in the same directory as your TeX document source).

% Unfortunately, natbib does not TIE textual 
% references to their citations. So authors 
% sometimes get separated from citations when 
% they come at the end of the line. The following 
% lines attempt to fix this problem.
%
% The lines below do the equivalent of . . .
%
%       \renewcommand\citet[1]%
%           {\citeauthor{#1}~\citep{#1}}
%
% but they handle the star and capitalization and 
% optional argument cases too.
%
% (the \makeatletter and \makeatother are not needed if 
%  these lines are put into a .sty file or in a natbib.cfg
%  file)
\makeatletter
%
%%% These lines test for star and number of arguments 
%%% and call the workhorses below
%
% Test for star (mid-sentence and start-sentence forms)
\def\citet{\@ifstar{\citetstar}{\citetnostar}}
\def\Citet{\@ifstar{\Citetstar}{\Citetnostar}}
%
% No star found. Now test for argument count.
\def\citetnostar%
    {\@ifnextchar[{\squarecitet}{\simplecitet}}
\def\squarecitet[#1]%
    {\@ifnextchar[{\twocitet[#1]}{\onecitet[#1]}}
\def\Citetnostar%
    {\@ifnextchar[{\squareCitet}{\simpleCitet}}
\def\squareCitet[#1]%
    {\@ifnextchar[{\twoCitet[#1]}{\oneCitet[#1]}}
%
% Star found. Now test for argument count.
\def\citetstar%
    {\@ifnextchar[{\squarecitetstar}{\simplecitetstar}}
\def\squarecitetstar[#1]%
    {\@ifnextchar[{\twocitetstar[#1]}{\onecitetstar[#1]}}
\def\Citetstar%
    {\@ifnextchar[{\squareCitetstar}{\simpleCitetstar}}
\def\squareCitetstar[#1]%
    {\@ifnextchar[{\twoCitetstar[#1]}{\oneCitetstar[#1]}}
%
\makeatother
%
%%% The following actually do the \cite work
%
% The \citet cases (no arg, one arg, and two args)
\def\simplecitet#1%
    {\citeauthor{#1}~\citep{#1}}
\def\onecitet[#1]#2%
    {\citeauthor{#2}~\citep[#1]{#2}}
\def\twocitet[#1][#2]#3%
    {\citeauthor{#3}~\citep[#1][#2]{#3}}
%
% The \citet* cases (no arg, one arg, and two args)
\def\simplecitetstar#1%
    {\citeauthor*{#1}~\citep{#1}}
\def\onecitetstar[#1]#2%
    {\citeauthor*{#2}~\citep[#1]{#2}}
\def\twocitetstar[#1][#2]#3%
    {\citeauthor*{#3}~\citep[#1][#2]{#3}}
%
% The \Citet cases (no arg, one arg, and two args)
\def\simpleCitet#1%
    {\Citeauthor{#1}~\citep{#1}}
\def\oneCitet[#1]#2%
    {\Citeauthor{#2}~\citep[#1]{#2}}
\def\twoCitet[#1][#2]#3%
    {\Citeauthor{#3}~\citep[#1][#2]{#3}}
%
% The \Citet* cases (no arg, one arg, and two args)
\def\simpleCitetstar#1%
    {\Citeauthor*{#1}~\citep{#1}}
\def\oneCitetstar[#1]#2%
    {\Citeauthor*{#2}~\citep[#1]{#2}}
\def\twoCitetstar[#1][#2]#3%
    {\Citeauthor*{#3}~\citep[#1][#2]{#3}}

Even if this problem gets fixed within natbib, it still might serve as a good example of how to deal with TWO or more optional arguments in macros...

UPDATE: For author-year citations (i.e., "Harvard style citations"), you must replace the \citep with \citeyearpar. That is, replace the final section of the code above with this section:

%%% The following actually do the \cite work
%
% The \citet cases (no arg, one arg, and two args)
\def\simplecitet#1%
    {\citeauthor{#1}~\citeyearpar{#1}}
\def\onecitet[#1]#2%
    {\citeauthor{#2}~\citeyearpar[#1]{#2}}
\def\twocitet[#1][#2]#3%
    {\citeauthor{#3}~\citeyearpar[#1][#2]{#3}}
%
% The \citet* cases (no arg, one arg, and two args)
\def\simplecitetstar#1%
    {\citeauthor*{#1}~\citeyearpar{#1}}
\def\onecitetstar[#1]#2%
    {\citeauthor*{#2}~\citeyearpar[#1]{#2}}
\def\twocitetstar[#1][#2]#3%
    {\citeauthor*{#3}~\citeyearpar[#1][#2]{#3}}
%
% The \Citet cases (no arg, one arg, and two args)
\def\simpleCitet#1%
    {\Citeauthor{#1}~\citeyearpar{#1}}
\def\oneCitet[#1]#2%
    {\Citeauthor{#2}~\citeyearpar[#1]{#2}}
\def\twoCitet[#1][#2]#3%
    {\Citeauthor{#3}~\citeyearpar[#1][#2]{#3}}
%
% The \Citet* cases (no arg, one arg, and two args)
\def\simpleCitetstar#1%
    {\Citeauthor*{#1}~\citeyearpar{#1}}
\def\oneCitetstar[#1]#2%
    {\Citeauthor*{#2}~\citeyearpar[#1]{#2}}
\def\twoCitetstar[#1][#2]#3%
    {\Citeauthor*{#3}~\citeyearpar[#1][#2]{#3}}

Those lines seem to work for me.

American Naturalist BibTeX BST style file

The American Naturalist, a University of Chicago Press - Journals Division journal, specifies that AASTeX should be used to typeset submissions; however, it does not provide any BibTeX BST bibliography style file. That means that authors still have to manually manage their reference list rather than using BibTeX and a central BIB bibliography database.

The BST: I've tried to remedy this by creating amnatnat.bst, a natbib-compatible BibTeX Bibliography STyle (BST) file for the American Naturalist.

As far as I can tell, this BST will generate a properly formatted BBL file that should not require modifications. Note that American Naturalist requires authors to upload their BBL files and NOT their BIB files (i.e., they don't have the ability to run BibTeX on the server).

ONE CAVEAT: If you have titles that contain colons in them, you will have to manually (either in the BIB or the BBL) change the case of the letter following the colon. For example, if "Some Title: Subtitle" is the title, change the "S" in "Subtitle" to "s". A feature/bug of BibTeX is that its sentence case keeps letters following colons capitalized. This does not match the sentence case definition used by many journals, which considers the words after a colon being at the middle of a sentence rather than the start of a new sentence. As far as I know right now, there is no easy way to change the BST file to do this automatically for you.

FYI: This BST file was generated using amnatnat.dbj (for more details, see amnatnat_full.dbj) and amnatnat.patch.

Preamble for Journal of Mathematical Biology

Update 5: The updated svglov2.clo and svglov3.clo are not needed if the preamble is used below (i.e., if the \RequirePackage{fix-cm} line is added before the documentclass line.

Update 4: See the section that redefines \autoref. Changed definition to support starred commands that are unlinked.

Update 3: See the section starting with the comment "%% Level 1 Subsections". It forces subsections to show up like sections in the PDF bookmarks; this is a (strange) JMB convention. In the comment I make some suggestions for improvements.

Update 2: See the small commented section "%%%% Table Support". If the LaTeX code is uncommented there, there is no need for the \noalign{\smallskip} stuff around \hline horizontal table rules. It uses the tabls package to do this.

Update 1: I've mirrored this content on my web page.

I'd like to combine some of the previous posts. I've been trying to fix and modernize some of the Springer LaTeX support files for the Journal of Mathematical Biology (JMB). I've come up with these...

• svglov2.clo - document class option for svjour2.cls. I used fix-cm to get rid of some of the warnings about not being able to scale the Computer Modern fonts. This is not needed if the preamble below is used (i.e., with the fix-cm line before the documentclass line).


• svglov3.clo - document class option for svjour3.cls. I used fix-cm to get rid of some of the warnings about not being able to scale the Computer Modern fonts. This is not needed if the preamble below is used (i.e., with the fix-cm line before the documentclass line).


• spmpsci.bst - BiBTeX bibliography style file for JMB. The original version of this did not reverse the first and last name of the editors as required; I fixed that.


• spmpscinat.bst - natbib compatible BiBTeX bibliography style file for JMB. Be sure to include natbib with numbers and sort&compress options.

I recommend using a preamble like this one...

%%%% Journal of Mathematical Biology (JMB) setup

% Allow Computer Modern fonts to be scaled (must be before svjour3)
\RequirePackage{fix-cm}

% Use running heads
\documentclass[runningheads]{svjour3}

% The journal's name
\journalname{Journal of Mathematical Biology}

% use Times fonts
\usepackage{mathptmx}

% flush right qed marks (Halmos square), 
% e.g., at end of proof
\smartqed

% Use natbib for \citet, \citep, etc.
% (JMB: numbered citations that are sorted 
%       and compressed)
\usepackage[numbers,sort&compress]{natbib}
%\bibliographystyle{spmpsci}
\bibliographystyle{spmpscinat}

%%%% Some useful packages

% Allow for smarter labeling of enumerations 
% and itemizations (consider using enumitem instead)
\usepackage{paralist}

% Provides \labelformat, which changes how \ref 
% references look
\usepackage{varioref}

% Mathematical symbols, etc.
\usepackage{amssymb,amsfonts,amsmath}

%%%% Table Support

% UNCOMMENT THE FOLLOWING LINES TO GET RID OF
% \noalign{\smallskip} STUFF AROUND \hline's IN
% TABLES
%
% % The following three lines remove the need for 
% % the \noalign{\smallskip} around the \hline's 
% % in the _Journal of Mathematical Biology_ LaTeX
% % template
% \usepackage{tabls}
% \addtolength\extrarulesep{\smallskipamount}
% \addtolength\extrarulesep{1pt}

%%%% Graphics and Figure Support

% Use subfig for subfigures
\usepackage[nearskip=-3pt,captionskip=4pt,
            listofformat=subsimple,
            labelformat=simple]{subfig}

% Make sure subfigures have parentheses around 
% them everywhere
\renewcommand\thesubfigure{(\alph{subfigure})}

% Use graphicx for including graphics
\usepackage{graphicx}

% When picture environments are used, use 
% pict2e for better resolution and flexibility
\usepackage{pict2e}

%%%% Hyperlink and Autoreference Support

%% Level 1 Subsections
%
% JMB does this weird thing where all 
% subsection-level PDF bookmarks are displayed as 
% section-level bookmarks. Strangely, they do 
% *NOT* turn on the ``bookmarksnumbered'' hyperref 
% option. I think their articles would be MUCH more 
% readable with all level-1 bookmarks if they were 
% prefixed by their section number. I'm sure they'd 
% argue that since the sections are linked within 
% the document, this is not needed.
%
% (note: another option is to set tocdepth=2 and turn 
%        on the ``bookmarksopen'' hyperref option)
%
% Anyway, the following redefines \addcontents line 
% to setup the bookmarks like JMB articles. Must do 
% this after hyperref because it redefines 
% \addcontentsline. Therefore, just use an 
% AtBeginDocument.
%
\usepackage{ifthen}
\AtBeginDocument{%
\let\orgaddcontentsline\addcontentsline
\renewcommand{\addcontentsline}[3]{
    \ifthenelse{\equal{#1}{toc}}
        {\ifthenelse{\equal{#2}{subsection}}
            {\orgaddcontentsline{#1}{section}{#3}}
            {\orgaddcontentsline{#1}{#2}{#3}}}
        {\orgaddcontentsline{#1}{#2}{#3}}}}

% Include hyperref for link support
% Include hyperref for link support
%\usepackage[dvipdfmx,   % If need dvipdfmx
%\usepackage[dvips,      % If need dvips
\usepackage[%           % Fine in most cases
            pdfpagelabels,hypertexnames=true,
            plainpages=false,
            naturalnames=false]{hyperref}

% Configure the hyperlink color
\usepackage{color}
\definecolor{darkblue}{rgb}{0,0.1,0.5}
\hypersetup{colorlinks,
            linkcolor=darkblue,
            anchorcolor=darkblue,
            citecolor=darkblue}

% In the future, it would be nice to use the package
%
%    cleveref
%
% Right now, it breaks svjour3 and svjour2, so we just 
% have to use autoref and labelformat :(.

% Make sure \autoref puts parentheses around 
% equations and enumeration items (similar to \eqref)
% NOTE: This allows us to use \ref instead of \eqref
\labelformat{equation}{\textup{(#1)}}
\labelformat{enumi}{\textup{(#1)}}

% Make sure equations are numbered by section
\numberwithin{equation}{section}

%% We need to redefine \autoref. We should use 
%% abbreviations inside the sentence and full names 
%% at the beginning of sentences. Additionally,
%% need to handle the plural cases.

% \Autoref is for the beginning of the sentence
\let\orgautoref\autoref
\providecommand{\Autoref}
        {\def\equationautorefname{Equation}%
         \def\figureautorefname{Figure}%
         \def\subfigureautorefname{Figure}%
         \def\sectionautorefname{Section}%
         \def\subsectionautorefname{Section}%
         \def\subsubsectionautorefname{Section}%
         \def\Itemautorefname{Item}%
         \def\tableautorefname{Table}%
         \orgautoref}

% \Autorefs is plural for the beginning of the sentence
\providecommand{\Autorefs}
        {\def\equationautorefname{Equations}%
         \def\figureautorefname{Figures}%
         \def\subfigureautorefname{Figures}%
         \def\sectionautorefname{Sections}%
         \def\subsectionautorefname{Sections}%
         \def\subsubsectionautorefname{Sections}%
         \def\Itemautorefname{Items}%
         \def\tableautorefname{Tables}%
         \orgautoref}

% \autoref is used inside a sentence 
% (this is a renew of the standard)
\renewcommand{\autoref}
        {\def\equationautorefname{Eq.}%
         \def\figureautorefname{Fig.}%
         \def\subfigureautorefname{Fig.}%
         \def\sectionautorefname{Sect.}%
         \def\subsectionautorefname{Sect.}%
         \def\subsubsectionautorefname{Sect.}%
         \def\Itemautorefname{item}%
         \def\tableautorefname{Table}%
         \orgautoref}

% \autorefs is plural for inside a sentence
\providecommand{\autorefs}
        {\def\equationautorefname{Eqs.}%
         \def\figureautorefname{Figs.}%
         \def\subfigureautorefname{Figs.}%
         \def\sectionautorefname{Sects.}%
         \def\subsectionautorefname{Sects.}%
         \def\subsubsectionautorefname{Sects.}%
         \def\Itemautorefname{items}%
         \def\tableautorefname{Tables}%
         \orgautoref}

This lets you do cool things like... (hyperlinks depicted in blue)

\ref{eq:1}		produces		linked		"(1)"
\ref*{eq:1}		produces		unlinked		"(1)"
\autoref{eq:1}		produces		linked		"Eq. (1)"
\autoref*{eq:1}		produces		unlinked		"Eq. (1)"
\Autoref{eq:1}		produces		linked		"Equation (1)"
\autoref{sec:2}		produces		linked		"Sect. 2.1"
\Autoref{sec:2}		produces		linked		"Section 2.1"
\Autorefs{sec:1} and \ref{sec:2}		produces		linked		"Sections 1 and 2.1"
\autorefs{sec:1} and \ref{sec:2}		produces		linked		"Sects. 1 and 2.1"
\autoref{item:1}		produces		linked		"item (i)"
\autorefs{item:1} and \ref{item:2}		produces		linked		"items (i) and (ii)"
\citep{SK86}		produces		linked		"[61]"
\citep[p.~41]{SK86}		produces		linked		"[61, p. 41]"
\citep{Cha76,SK86}		produces		linked		"[14, 61]"
\citep[e.g.,][]{SK86,Cha76}		produces		linked		"[e.g., 14, 61]"
\citeauthor{SK86}		produces		linked		"Stephens and Krebs"
\citet{SK86}		produces		linked		"Stephens and Krebs [61]"

spmpscinat.bst: A natbib style file for Journal of Mathematical Biology (e.g., Springer journals)

UPDATE: I learned how to use custom-bib's makebst. I've updated the spmpscinat.bst file in a more proper way by using makebst. I also regenerated the spmpsci.bst file so it properly reverses editor names to match the JMB format. I will submit these to JMB and hopefully they'll use them. FYI, these were mostly generated from spmpscinat.dbj and spmpsci.dbj, respectively.

I was frustrated to find out that the Journal of Mathematical Biology (JMB) has been using some outdated LaTeX support files. In particular, they distribute a BiBTeX style file that has no support for natbib use (or anything similar, like apacite). This appears to be less of a problem with JMB and more of a problem with Springer in general (i.e., most of its journals). They actually expect people to type the names of the authors that they reference directly (either that or use references (e.g., [2]) as nouns, which is bad style even though it saves space)! Can you believe that?

Civilized people use a package like natbib to do something like \citet{SK86} on every textual citation, which will then generate "Stephens and Krebs (1986)" (in Harvard mode) or "Stephens and Krebs [61]" (in numerical mode). There are lots of good reasons to do this. For one, it prevents me from accidentally turning "Krebs" into "Krbes".

To deal with this, I took the abbrvnat.bst style file packaged with natbib and hacked its support into the spmpsci.bst file from Springer. The result is spmpscinat.bst, which seems to work as desired for most bibliography entries I have tried.

I don't have a lot of experience with working with BiBTeX support files, so I have a feeling that it would have been better to use custom-bib to generate a BiBTeX style file in the JMB format that would be compatible with natbib. I may do that later.

So basically, I reserve the right to update or changed spmpscinat.bst at any time and without any notice, so look out for updates.

paralist, varioref, and hyperref: a happy combination

Consider the following...

\usepackage{varioref}
\labelformat{equation}{\textup{(#1)}}

This uses the clever varioref package to alter how equation references are displayed. The reference will be displayed with parentheses around the reference and the whole thing will be forced upright (so things don't look stupid in an italicized theorem environment). For example, for an equation labeled "eq:1" and a figure labeled "fig:1", I get these results:

\ref{eq:1} produces "(1)"
\ref{fig:1} produces "1"

This removes the need for \eqref from amsmath; just use \ref instead. Now, let's add hyperref:

\usepackage{hyperref}

So,

\ref{eq:1} produces a linked "(1)"
\ref*{eq:1} produces an unlinked "(1)"
\ref{fig:1} produces a linked "1"
\ref*{fig:1} produces an unlinked "1"
\autoref{eq:1} produces a linked "Equation (1)"
\autoref*{eq:1} produces an unlinked "Equation (1)"
\autoref{fig:1} produces a linked "Figure 1"
\autoref*{fig:1} produces an unlinked "Figure 1"

So this gives us the equivalent of an unlinked "\eqref*" through \ref*. Now, let's add paralist...

\usepackage{paralist}
\labelformat{equation}{\textup{(#1)}}

and an enumerate environment with automatic bracketed lowercase roman numeral numbering...

\begin{enumerate}[(i)]
    \item This is item one. \label{item:1}
    \item This is item two. \label{item:2}
\end{enumerate}

The \label macros can be associated with any enumerate item, even without paralist. The package paralist allows us to easily customize the displayed labels (enumitem is nice alternative). So, we get an enumerated output like...

 (i) This is item one.
(ii) This is item two.

Now we get...

\ref{item:1} produces a linked "(i)"
\ref*{item:1} produces an unlinked "(i)"
\autoref{item:1} produces a linked "item (i)"
\autoref*{item:1} produces an unlinked "item (i)"

Isn't life sweet? Notice the similarities between these things and stuff provided by prettyref and typedref. I think hyperref's autoref with the flexibility provided by varioref is a nice way to replace those old goodies.

Now can someone convince the Journal of Mathematical Biology to start using a bibliography style compatible with natbib? That would truly make me happy...

Thesis, Defense, and Source Available

I packaged it all up, documented it, and made it available on-line. Hopefully having a whole LaTeX thesis source on-line will be helpful to someone. This thesis has multiple indices (people and topic), glossaries, and all sorts of PDF hyperlinking and referencing. It uses packages like authorindex, hyperref, index, and natbib. I hope it serves as a good example for putting together a digital book.

• Research Page
  
  • Optimal Foraging Theory Revisited thesis
  • Optimal Foraging Theory Revisited defense presentation
    (best viewed in latest Adobe Acrobat)
• Thesis LaTeX Source Directory


• OhioLink Entry

Archives are also stored in the source directory. The defense presentation is best viewed in latest Adobe Acrobat as it makes use of a number of very modern PDF features. The presentation is built with LaTeX using powerdot.

The source directory also includes a modified osudissert96-mods.sty and the standard osudissert96.cls file, which is part of the osudissert96 (info, source) package. The modifications:

• Force title to uppercase to match updated submission rules.


• Additional hyperref support: If phantomsection defined, will add phantomsection in dedication page.


• Additional hyperref support: alphanumeric page numbers on title page to prevent page name conflicts.

Just so everyone knows, the two acceptable graduate unit names for the OSU ECE department are

• Graduate Program in Electrical & Computer Engineering


• Electrical & Computer Engineering Graduate Program