Replaced \eidesstatt by more specific macros.

ifiseries.sty

@@ -1192,8 +1192,8 @@ Datum der m\"undlichen Pr\"ufung:~\ifthenelse{\equal{#4}{_}}{\rule{12em}{.3pt}}{
 {\dissreviewerpageiii}%
 {\dissreviewerpagedate}}
 
-%% Selbstständigkeitserklärung (formerly Eidesstattliche Erklärung)
-\newcommand*{\eidesstatt}{%
+%% Selbstständigkeitserklärung for students (formerly Eidesstattliche Erklärung)
+\newcommand*{\studeidesstatt}{%
 \newpage
 \thispagestyle{plain}
 \hskip 0mm
@@ -1209,6 +1209,34 @@ anderen als die angegebenen Quellen und Hilfsmittel verwendet habe.\par
 \hfill\rule{18em}{.3pt}%
 \end{otherlanguage}}
 
+%% Selbstständigkeitserklärung for dissertations
+\newcommand*{\disseidesstatt}{%
+\newpage
+\thispagestyle{plain}
+\hskip 0mm
+\vfill
+\begin{otherlanguage}{ngerman}
+\noindent
+\textbf{Erkl{\"a}rung entsprechend \S8 der Promotionsordnung}\par
+\bigskip\noindent
+Hiermit gebe ich folgende Erkl{\"a}rungen ab:
+\begin{itemize}
+  \item Diese Abhandlung ist,
+        abgesehen von der Beratung durch die Betreuerin oder den Betreuer,
+        nach Inhalt und Form meine eigene Arbeit.
+  \item Kein Teil dieser Arbeit ist bereits an anderer Stelle
+        im Rahmen eines Pr{\"u}fungsverfahrens vorgelegt wurden.
+        Teile wurden, wie in der Arbeit gekennzeichnet,
+        im Rahmen wissenschaftlicher Ver{\"o}ffentlichungen publiziert.
+  \item Die Arbeit ist unter Einhaltung der Regeln
+        guter wissenschaftlicher Praxis
+        der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft entstanden.
+\end{itemize}\par
+\bigskip\noindent Kiel,
+\vskip 10mm
+\hfill\rule{18em}{.3pt}%
+\end{otherlanguage}}
+
 %% Command to create a page with meta data.
 \newcommand{\metapage}[9]{%
 \newpage%

manual.tex

@@ -685,6 +685,13 @@ The differences are summarized in \autoref{tab:structure}.
     In particular, this macro prints the correct ISSNs.
     Its use is demonstrated below
     and explained in more detail in \autoref{sub:features}.
+  
+  \item A declaration of originality (for lack of a better word)
+    to assert that the thesis is the author's own work.
+    For bachelor's or master's theses,
+    use the \lstinline|\studeidesstatt| command.
+    For dissertations,
+    use the \lstinline|\disseidesstatt| command.
 
   \item A chapter titled \enquote{About this Series}.
     The text for this chapter is the same for all works
@@ -736,6 +743,7 @@ The differences are summarized in \autoref{tab:structure}.
     Element                      & Review Diss. & Final Diss.  & Student Thesis \\ \midrule
     Title page                   & \checkmark   & \checkmark   & \checkmark \\
     Meta information             &              & \checkmark   & \\
+    Declaration of originality   & \checkmark   &              & \checkmark \\
     About this series            &              & \checkmark   & \\
     Reviewers                    &              & \checkmark   & \\
     Abstract                     & \checkmark   & \checkmark   & \checkmark \\
@@ -1038,6 +1046,12 @@ See \autoref{sub:bibliography} for more details on bibliographies.
   \lstinline|\metapagebibfile|,
   \lstinline|\metapagecopyright|,
   \lstinline|\metapagetext|.
+  \item[Declaration of Originality Page:]
+  For the mandatory page that the thesis is the author's own work,
+  the macros \lstinline|\studeidesstatt| (for bachelor's and master's theses)
+  and \lstinline|\disseidesstatt| (for dissertations)
+  produce an appropriately worded page
+  for you to sign later. 
   \item[Dissertation Reviewer Page:]
   For the mandatory page stating the reviewers
   and date of disputation for dissertations,
@@ -2262,6 +2276,19 @@ An article on A4 paper:
 
 
 
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\subsection*{2018-10-24}
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+The \lstinline|\eidesstatt| macro
+was replaced by two macros:
+\lstinline|\studeidesstatt| and \lstinline|\disseidesstatt|.
+An implication is that the style finally
+has a ready-made declaration of originality page
+for you to use.
+
+
+
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 \subsection*{2017-06-02}
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

template-bachelormaster.tex

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 {<++OPTIONAL RESEARCH GROUP++>}%
 {<++SUPERVISOR++>}
 \cleardoublepage
-\eidesstatt
+\studeidesstatt
 
 \chapter*{Abstract}
 <++ABSTRACT++>

template.tex

@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ Kiel University.}%
 % printing service.
 {<++ADDITIONAL TEXT OR EMPTY++>}
 
+\disseidesstatt
+
 \input{about-this-series}
 
 \dissreviewerpage%