A quick start template with all necessary features for a thesis: double pages, fancy headers, appendix, bib, toc, title.
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% Copyright (c) 2014 Jan Küster, info@jankuester.com
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% DOCUMENMT DEFINITION
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%we use report class for thesis design
\documentclass[11pt,titlepage,twoside,openright]{report}
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% ENCODING
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\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
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% COLOR DEFINITIONS
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\usepackage{color}
%citation reference color
\definecolor{citationscol}{rgb}{0.1,0.1,0.5}
%urls color
\definecolor{urlscol}{RGB}{220,120,0}
%internal references color
\definecolor{linkscol}{rgb}{0.2,0.2,0.3}
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% REFERENCES URL CITATION STYLES AND SO ON
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%apply reference color definitions to hyperref package
\usepackage[colorlinks=true,citecolor=citationscol,urlcolor=urlscol,linkcolor=linkscol]{hyperref}
\usepackage{url}
\urlstyle{same}
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% FONT DEFINITIONS
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% Better typography
\usepackage[protrusion=true,expansion=true]{microtype}
% Use the Palatino font
\usepackage{mathpazo}
% Required for accented characters
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
% Change line spacing here, Palatino benefits from a slight increase by default
\linespread{1.05}
% more font size definitions
\usepackage{moresize}
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% GEOMETRY DEFINITIONS
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%define page styles using geometry
\usepackage[inner=4cm,outer=2cm,bottom=3.5cm]{geometry}
%define A4 Paper
\geometry{a4paper}
\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{15.5pt}
\setlength{\evensidemargin}{15.5pt}
\setlength{\parindent}{4mm}
\setlength{\parskip}{1mm }
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% GRAPHICS DEFINITIONS
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% Required for including pictures
\usepackage{graphicx}
% make it possible to include more than one captioned figure/table in a single float
\usepackage{subfig}
% for much better looking tables
\usepackage{booktabs}
% for better arrays (eg matrices) in maths
\usepackage{array}
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% ENVIRONMENT DEFINITIONS
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% very flexible & customisable lists
%(eg. enumerate/itemize, etc.)
\usepackage{paralist}
% adds environment for commenting
% out blocks of text & for better verbatim
\usepackage{verbatim}
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% CUSTOM STRUT FOR EMPTY BOXES
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\newcommand{\mystrut}{\rule[-.3\baselineskip]{0pt}{\baselineskip}}
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% HEADER / FOOTER DEFINITIONS
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% This should be set AFTER setting up the page geometry
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]
{
\markboth{#1}{}
}
\renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]{\markright{\thesection\ #1}}
\lhead{\sffamily\textcolor{urlscol}{Chapter \thechapter: \leftmark}}
\rhead{\sffamily\textcolor{urlscol}{\rightmark}}
\fancyhf[FLE,FRO]{\sffamily\large\thepage}
\cfoot{}
%override plain page style
\fancypagestyle{plain}{ %
\fancyhf{} % remove everything
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} % remove lines as well
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
\cfoot{\sffamily\large\thepage}
}
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% SECTION TITLE APPEARANCE
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\usepackage{sectsty}
% (See the fntguide.pdf for font help)
\allsectionsfont{\sffamily\mdseries\upshape}
\usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}
\titleformat{\section}{\LARGE\bf\sffamily}
{\textcolor{urlscol}{\thesection \hspace{12pt} #1}}{0pt}{}
\titleformat{\chapter}{\HUGE\bf\sffamily}
{
\hspace{-0.25\linewidth}\colorbox{urlscol}
{
\makebox[1\linewidth][c]
{
\textcolor{white}{\HUGE \thechapter \hspace{18pt}#1}
}
}
}
{0pt}{}
\titleformat{\subsection}{\large\bf\sffamily}{\textcolor{urlscol}{#1}}{0pt}{}
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% TABLE OF CONTENT APPEARANCE
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%\usepackage[nottoc,notlof,notlot]{tocbibind} % Put the bibliography in the ToC
\usepackage[titles,subfigure]{tocloft} % Alter the style of the Table of Contents
\renewcommand{\cftsecfont}{\rmfamily\mdseries\upshape}
\renewcommand{\cftsecpagefont}{\rmfamily\mdseries\upshape} % No bold!
\renewcommand{\abstractname}{Executive Summary} %switches abstract to executive summary
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% TITLE AND AUTHOR
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\title{\HUGE\textbf{The Master Thesis Title}}
\vspace{50pt} % Some vertical space between the title and author name
\author{ \vspace{20pt}The Author\\
Dept of LaTex\\
Tex University\\
Textown, Texland\\
mail@texuni.com}
\vspace{40pt} % Some vertical space between the title and author name
\date{\today}
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% INDEX AND GLOSSARY
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\usepackage[style=long,nonumberlist,toc,xindy,acronym,nomain]{glossaries} % nomain, if you define glossaries in a file, and you use \include{INP-00-glossary}
%\loadglsentries[main]{glossary}
% or using \input:
\include{glossary}
\makeglossaries
\usepackage[xindy]{imakeidx}
\makeindex
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% BEGIN DOCUMENT
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\begin{document}
% before the chapters start, we
% use roman numbering on the pages
\setcounter{page}{1}
\pagenumbering{roman}
% Print the title section
\maketitle
\vspace{30pt} % Some vertical space between the abstract and first section
\cleardoublepage
%table of contents
\tableofcontents
\cleardoublepage
% EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{abstract}
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\end{abstract}
\cleardoublepage
% Back to arabic numbering
\setcounter{page}{1}
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\pagestyle{fancy}
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% CHAPTER 1
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\chapter[Introduction]{Introduction}
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\newpage
\section[1st Section Name]{First Section}
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\begin{itemize}
\item Morbi tempor congue porta. Proin semper, leo vitae faucibus dictum, metus mauris lacinia lorem, ac congue leo felis eu turpis.
\item Morbi tempor congue porta. Proin semper, leo vitae faucibus dictum, metus mauris lacinia lorem, ac congue leo felis eu turpis.
\item Morbi tempor congue porta. Proin semper, leo vitae faucibus dictum, metus mauris lacinia lorem, ac congue leo felis eu turpis.
\item Morbi tempor congue porta. Proin semper, leo vitae faucibus dictum, metus mauris lacinia lorem, ac congue leo felis eu turpis.
\end{itemize}
\subsection[1st Subsection Name]{A subsection}
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\cleardoublepage
\section[2nd Section Name]{Second Section}
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\begin{itemize}
\item Morbi tempor congue porta. Proin semper, leo vitae faucibus dictum, metus mauris lacinia lorem, ac congue leo felis eu turpis.
\item Morbi tempor congue porta. Proin semper, leo vitae faucibus dictum, metus mauris lacinia lorem, ac congue leo felis eu turpis.
\item Morbi tempor congue porta. Proin semper, leo vitae faucibus dictum, metus mauris lacinia lorem, ac congue leo felis eu turpis.
\item Morbi tempor congue porta. Proin semper, leo vitae faucibus dictum, metus mauris lacinia lorem, ac congue leo felis eu turpis.
\end{itemize}
\subsection[1st Subsection Name]{A subsection}
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More text. More text. More text. \index{more here} More text. More text. More text. More text. More text. More text.
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% APPENDIX
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\cleardoublepage
\pagestyle{plain}
\phantomsection %hyperref package support
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Appendix}
{\textbf{\LARGE{Appendix}}}\\ %headline
Some Appendix Text. \index{Appendix} Some Appendix Text. Some Appendix Text.
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% BIBLIOGRAPHY
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%useful: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Bibliography_Management
%------------ linking bib to table of content ------------------%
\cleardoublepage
\phantomsection %hyperref package support
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Bibliography}
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{\textbf{\LARGE{Bibliography}}}\\ %headline
\nocite{*} % Show all Bib-entries (DEBUG)
%\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{literature.bib}
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% INDEX AND GLOSSARY
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\cleardoublepage
\phantomsection %hyperref package support
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Index}
{\textbf{\LARGE{Index}}}\\ %headline
\printindex
%\printglossary[title=List of Terms,toctitle=Terms and abbreviations]
\printglossaries
\end{document}