Rackham Dissertation Format

A Quarto template for U-M Rackham dissertations. Based on the unofficial thesis-umich LaTeX template.

Rackham has stringent formatting guidelines, yet refuses to provide a template 🧐. Using this unofficial template does not guarantee that you will meet their formatting guidelines.

Installing

You will first need to install quarto.

For a new document

You can use this as a template to create a new dissertation. To do this, use the following command:

quarto use template kelly-sovacool/rackham

This will install the extension and create an example qmd file that you can use as a starting place for your article.

For an existing document

You may also use this format with an existing Quarto project or document. From the project or document directory, run this command:

quarto install extension kelly-sovacool/rackham

Using

To use the format, specify the format name rackham-pdf in your document yaml:

format:
  rackham-pdf:
    keep-tex: true

You can also optionally specify author metadata, chapter and appendix files, and text for the abstract, dedication, preface, etc. Take a look at _quarto.yml for examples of all the format options you can set.

Preview the rendered template at http://sovacool.dev/rackham/dissertation.pdf

See my actual dissertation as a full-featured example: https://github.com/kelly-sovacool/phd-diss