| U.S. military | | | | throughout high school, and their future plans (if |
| Military yearbook | | | | known). Also, (in some high schools) the senior's |
| Warships of the United States Navy often | | | | photos will be in color while the underclassmen |
| produce a yearbook style publication upon | | | | photos are in black and white. Frequently, seniors |
| completion of a long deployment (typically six | | | | are polled to nominate their classmates for |
| months or more). These books, referred to by | | | | "superlatives" or "class celebrities" (such as "most |
| sailors as "cruise books" are produced on board | | | | likely to succeed," "most athletic," "most spirited" |
| by the ship's Morale, Welfare and Recreation | | | | and "class clown"), are often published in the |
| department and Public Affairs staff, and then | | | | senior section. Some private schools and smaller |
| printed ashore by the same printing companies | | | | high schools set aside an entire page for each |
| that publish high school and college yearbooks. The | | | | senior. These pages are sometimes designed by |
| cruise book of a Nimitz Class aircraft carrier | | | | the seniors themselves, with each senior |
| typically reaches over 600 pages in length, as it | | | | submitting a digital or physical version of the page |
| includes portraits of the more than 5,000 sailors | | | | he or she would like featured in the book. |
| and Marines assigned to the ship's company and | | | | Slovak yearbook |
| embarked carrier air wing. | | | | In the UK and other countries, where yearbooks |
| The Navy's Recruit Training Center in Great | | | | often only cover the final year group and not the |
| Lakes, Illinois also produces yearbook style | | | | entire school, each student may have more space |
| publications for each graduating division of recruits. | | | | for answers to various questions as well as their |
| These publications are much smaller, as each | | | | photo (or photos). In Year 11 (England & |
| recruit division totals roughly 80 sailors. The book | | | | Wales) members are usually grouped by form |
| is called "The Keel" after the part of a ship that is | | | | class; whilst Year 13 tend not to be grouped in |
| constructed first, as RTC or boot camp sets the | | | | such a way, but instead just appear alphabetically |
| foundation for the sailor's career. These books | | | | throughout the book. Its common in these |
| contain a color section common to all books | | | | markets for each person to have between a |
| published that year, with a specific black and white | | | | quarter and a whole page each, depending on the |
| section added for each recruit division and their | | | | budget available for the yearbook (as more pages |
| "brother" or "sister" division.edit Production and | | | | means a higher cost). The editorial team chooses |
| distributionedit Compilation | | | | questions for members to answer (such as |
| Yearbooks are generally compiled by a student | | | | "Favourite teacher?" or "Where will you be in 5 |
| committee, which may or may not be advised by | | | | years time?") and these answers appear alongside |
| members of the faculty. The committee usually | | | | member photos. These photos and answers are |
| has one or more editors who are responsible for | | | | sometimes also collected online.edit Student life |
| collecting and compiling all of the information to be | | | | Several pages are often used for pages |
| contained within the book, also deciding the layout | | | | chronicling activities undertaken by students, such |
| and allocation of space for each contributor.edit | | | | as trips abroad, activity trips, sporting and other |
| Sections | | | | special events. These pages often consist of |
| Most yearbooks have a similar format, which | | | | photo-journals displayed with or without captions. |
| includes individual photographs of students; | | | | Sometimes members of a yearbook write |
| information on activities; sports; and other | | | | editorial and journalistic content about life as a |
| activities.edit People (seniors, underclassmen, | | | | student, current events (local, national and |
| faculty) | | | | international) and other matters of interest to the |
| In the U.S., where a yearbook often covers the | | | | peer group. |
| whole school and not just the final year, these | | | | In books having pages in both color and black and |
| sections are arranged in chronological order by | | | | white, the photo pages - collages and other |
| class (freshmen, sophomore, junior, and senior), in | | | | groups of photos - tend to be the ones which run |
| either ascending or descending order. Normally | | | | in color; the others run in black and white, |
| each student will have an individual photo of them | | | | reducing the publishing costs (and overall purchase |
| accompanied by their name and perhaps one or | | | | price) per book.edit Academics/education |
| two lines of text. Senior photographs are usually | | | | Talks about the classes, projects, and more |
| larger than underclassmen's and are often | | | | educational aspects of the school year. |
| accompanied by text about their accomplishments | | | | |