Text Formatting ⇒ Help with \tableofcontents and \listoffigures heading format

[bhosp]

I need to change the format of the headings created by \tableofcontents ("Contents") and \listoffigures ("List of Figures") to be centered, bold-face, normal-size text. I also want to remove the leading vspace these macros create (between the heading and the top margin). How do I do this?

(Please help! My university library won't accept my dissertation if I can't make it conform to their style guide! )

[meho_r]

Welcome to the forum. Please, start with this.

Meanwhile, here's a blind example using titlesec:

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\documentclass{book}

\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\usepackage{titlesec}

\begin{document}

{% don’t forget this curly brace 

\titleformat{\chapter}
	{\normalfont\bfseries\filcenter}% global formatting (number and text)
	{}% formatting the chapter number
	{0pt}% distance between the number and text of chapter
	{}% optional code preceding typesetting of chapter
	
\titlespacing{\chapter}
	{0pt}% left margin
	{0pt}% vertical space before title
	{0pt}% vertical space after title

\tableofcontents
\listoffigures

}% don’t forget this curly brace


\begin{figure}\centering
\rule{3cm}{1ex}
\caption{A figure}
\end{figure}

\Blinddocument

\end{document}