Change chapterstyle of bibliography/appendix only

Question

I am looking for a way to change the chapterstyle for the bibliography and two appendices in a thesis. Ideally, I would like to have other headings for the final chapters, that is different from the main chapters. In the new style, bib/appen would be aligned to the left and further towards the header of the page, wheres the main chapters keep their right alignment and overall more fancy style.

I have already done this kind of change for the frontmatter, just by defining a new \chapterstyle{frontmatter}. The ToC, abstract etc are now set in this style. But it has proved much more difficult for the bibliography and appendices. Now my question is, are there any suggestion as to how I can use a differnet chapterstyle for these final chapters?

It looks like the bibliography and appendix chapters are a part of the mainmatter, as there is no backmatter defined in the template. Should I try to move bib/appendix to the backmatter? How could I make a backmatter and assign chapters to it?

Thanks for any help the folks here can provide on this issue!

Answer 1

With the memoir class define another chapterstyle, say bibappendix. The memoir class does provide a backmatter declaration (I don't know what you mean by your template in your question), read the documentation texdoc memoir.

Roughly:

\documentclass[...]{memoir}
% define chapterstyles and other preamble stuff
\begin{document}
\frontmatter
\chapterstyle{frontmatter}
% ToC etc
\mainmatter
% chapters and so on
\chapterstyle{bibappendix}
% appendices
\backmatter
% bibliography etc.
\end{document}

BTW \frontmatter sets the folios in lowercase roman starting from i, and prohibits chapter etc. numbering although they will be added to the ToC. \mainmatter sets the folios in arabic numbering starting from 1 and chapters etc will be numbered. \backmatter make no change to page numbering but does stop numbering of sectional divisions.