diff --git a/_quarto.yml b/_quarto.yml
index 51d4787..fa01941 100644
--- a/_quarto.yml
+++ b/_quarto.yml
@@ -3,8 +3,15 @@ project:
 
 book:
   title: "Assesing uncertanties related to satellite remote sensing indices to estimate Gross Primary Production"
-  author: "Ronny A. Hernández Mora"
-  date: "2023"
+  subtitle: "By"
+  author: 
+    - name: "Ronny A. Hernández Mora"
+      orcid: "0000-0001-6225-7096"
+      affiliations:
+        - name: "University of Alberta"
+          department: "Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"
+  date: "01 September 2023"
+  date-format: "MMMM YYYY"
   chapters:
     - abstract.qmd
     - index.qmd
@@ -23,11 +30,24 @@ bibliography:
 
 format:
   pdf:
+    template-partials:
+      - before-body.tex
     tbl-cap-location: top
     documentclass: scrreprt
     lof: true
     lot: true
     page-breaks: true
+    geometry:
+      - inner=3cm
+      - outer=4cm
+      - top=3cm
+      - bottom=4cm
+      - headsep=22pt
+      - headheight=11pt
+      - footskip=33pt
+      - ignorehead
+      - ignorefoot
+      - heightrounded
     filters:
      - section-refs.lua # needs pandoc version >= 2.11 to work
 
diff --git a/before-body.tex b/before-body.tex
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..28441a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/before-body.tex
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+$if(has-frontmatter)$
+\frontmatter
+$endif$
+$if(title)$
+\cleardoublepage
+\thispagestyle{empty}
+{\centering
+\hbox{}\vskip 0cm plus 1fill
+{\Large\bfseries $title$ \par}
+$if(subtitle)$
+\vspace{3ex}
+{\small\bfseries $subtitle$ \par}
+$endif$
+\vspace{12ex}
+$for(by-author)$
+{\Large\bfseries $by-author.name.literal$ \par}
+\vspace{3ex}
+{\small ORCID: $by-author.orcid$ \par}
+\vskip 0cm plus 2fill
+\vspace{5ex}
+{\large A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of \par}
+{\bfseries\large Master of Science \par}
+\vskip 0cm plus 2fill
+\vspace{5ex}
+$for(by-author.affiliations)$%
+$if(it.department)$%
+{\bfseries\large $it.department$ \par}
+$endif$%
+{\bfseries\large $it.name$ \par}
+\vspace{12ex}
+{\bfseries\large $date$ \par}
+\vspace{12ex}
+}
+$endfor$$endfor$%
+$endif$
\ No newline at end of file