Text Formatting ⇒ Remove space before the lists (bibliography, LoF, LoT, ToC)

[cdrueda]

Hi!
How can I remove the space before the "References" or "Bibliography" heading using the book documentclass? Also, I need to to the same thing for the "Contents", "List of Figures" and "List of Tables" headings.

Thank you!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi cdrueda,

these headings are like chapter headings and can be adjusted using the titlesec package, have a look at its documentation. Use the commands \titleformat and \titlespacing.

Stefan

[cdrueda]

Thank you, but I still don't get it.

This is the way I formatted the Chapter titles:

\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
{\bfseries\Huge}
{%
\vskip-3em
% \titlerule
\filright
\Large\chaptertitlename\
\Large\thechapter}
{0mm}
{\filright}

the \vskip command does the job for the chapter. However, I don't know how to do the same thing for toc, lof, loc, and bibliography. Please help me out here, it's for my thesis.

Thanks!

[gmedina]

Hi,

it's better to control the spacing before and after the sectional units' titles with \titlespacing, and not with \titleformat. Take a look at the following example:

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{titlesec}

\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
  {\bfseries\Huge}
  {\filright\Large\chaptertitlename\ \thechapter}
  {0mm}{\filright}
\titlespacing*{\chapter}
  {0pt}{-10pt}{40pt}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\chapter{Test chapter}
test
\end{document}

Changing the second argument you can obtain the desired vertical spacing before the chapter titles.

[cdrueda]

Thank you!

But this takes care of the chapter titles only. I need to remove the space above the lof, lot, and bibliography titles.

Thank you!

[gmedina]

...But this takes care of the chapter titles only. I need to remove the space above the lof, lot, and bibliography titles...

As Stefan_K mentioned, the book document class internally builds the ToC, LoF, LoT and Bibliography titles by using \capther*, so the \titlespacing command do affects them.

Take a look at the following example:

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{titlesec}

\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
  {\bfseries\Huge}
  {\filright\Large\chaptertitlename\ \thechapter}
  {0mm}{\filright}
\titlespacing*{\chapter}
  {0pt}{-10pt}{40pt}

\begin{document}
{
\titlespacing*{\chapter}
  {0pt}{-80pt}{40pt}
\tableofcontents
\listoffigures
}

\chapter{Test chapter}
test

\end{document}