The grad school prefers the format in template II; however, both template I and template II have been accepted without comments by the grad school. Thus, in principle they both comply sufficiently well with the rules.

Why template I? Easier to read output, less waste of space and paper.
General problem with II over I is how math equations look. With the way latex works, II leads to line breaks sometimes in the middle of the page. It is hard to read and uses a lot of paper. The combination of smaller font and full justification allows latex to fit more in a page and line and makes it easer to read.

Fix this at the every end, just before you turn in your thesis.

The table of contents will have periods missing after the chapter numbers. This is silly, but required.

FIX:

compile the dissertation making sure everything is correct, references, citations, page numbers match table of contents etc.

Open the file called "mydissertation.toc" where mydissertation is whatever you have called your main file. It should be in the same folder as your main file. If it doesn't exist, compile latex again, or ask someone who is computer savey.

You will see lines like this:
\contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {I}INTRODUCTION}{1}
\contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {II}DECOMPOSING $p$-GROUPS VIA JORDAN ALGEBRAS}{2}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {II.1}Introduction}{2}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {II.1.1}Outline of the Proof}{4}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {II.2}Background}{5}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {II.2.1}Central Decompositions and Products}{5}
Of course the words will reflect your chapter and section titles.

Add the `.' to the chapter numbers (here in red), only the chapters!
\contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {I.}INTRODUCTION}{1}
\contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {II.}DECOMPOSING $p$-GROUPS VIA JORDAN ALGEBRAS}{2}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {II.1}Introduction}{2}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {II.1.1}Outline of the Proof}{4}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {II.2}Background}{5}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {II.2.1}Central Decompositions and Products}{5}


Save the file.

Run latex (or pdflatex) ONCE!

Review your table of contents in the PDF. You should see the chapter numbers now have I., II., etc. If not, repeat.

NOTE: everytime you run latex or pdflatex it rewrite the *.toc files so all your changes to that files are deleted. So if you need to make a change else where you will have to repeat this process.

WARNING: this process is incredibly bad and can make your page numbers not agree with the table of contents if you don't do it exactly right. So check that they are correct when you are done.

To good latex users: that has been fixed in the past. A few years ago, graduate students decided the throw-out the previous templates (why?!) and rebuild one from the physics department. The older version appears lost, but apparently did not have this bug. If you know latex, try to fix the bug or find the old template to modify. A helpful tool might be to just redefine all the table of contents commands or use minitoc.

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