Following "A few notes on book design" from Peter Wilson (author of the memoir
class) the order of the pages of the front matter is:
- Half-title page
- Blank
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Blank
- ToC
- LoF
- LoT
- Forewords
- Preface
- Aknowledg(e)ments
- Introduction
- Abreviations
Again for the case of my master's thesis I have a few questions: Where should I include the Abstract ? Item 12 'introduction' should be there if the introduction is not part of the main matter which is clearly not the case in a scientific writting.
So I was thinking about replacing that by the abstract. But at this location the abstract seems to be a bit "hidden" in the middle of all these pages.
So my second idea would be to put it just after the LoT. But in don't know if this is optimal.
My layout, removing what I think are unnecessary parts would then be:
- Title page
- Blank
- Title page (only the title, nothing else)
- Blank
- Dedication
- blank
- ToC
- LoF
- LoT
- Abstract
- Preface
- Aknowledg(e)ments
- Abreviations
- and then start the first numbered chapter "Introduction"
What do you think ?