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I am virtually clueless in the world of LaTeX. Having said that, I'm liking it a lot due to the power with which you can create fantastic looking documents; even if the learning curve is rather steep.
Below is an approximate layout (with the actual text removed) of my final year project at university:
%Preamble. Ths stuff is important! \documentclass[a4paper]{report} \usepackage{setspace} \usepackage{a4wide} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage[sort&compress,super,comma]{natbib} %required for bibliography \usepackage{subfig} %required for figure layouts \usepackage{textcomp} %required for celcius sign which is typed using \textcelsius \usepackage{lineno} \newcommand{\ul}{$\mu$l} %Example, type "\ul\ to get a micro-litre in text, %rather than typing it out every time. \renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault} %End preamble. \begin{document} \begin{large} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% F L U F F %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %Double spacing is looked down upon by many, but a lot of academic documents want the space %for markers to write comments, so we have to use it! \setstretch{2.0} %default spacing to be double spaced. To change from this, use: %begin{doublespace} end{doublespace} %begin{singlespace} end{singlespace} \begin{singlespace} %StartTitlepage \title{Title here} \author{Name here} \date{\today} \maketitle %EndTitlepage \pagenumbering{roman} %use roman numeral numbering for intro stuff \tableofcontents \listoffigures %\listoftables \chapter*{Acknowledgements} Put your acknowledgements in here \end{itemize} \chapter*{Abbreviations} \label{ch:abbreviations} % NOTE: lines longer than a page width do not work nicely here by %default (no wrapping apparently) % How-to for table: The ``&'' separates columns, and ``\\" indicates the end of a line. % More information on how-to with tables is %http://www.andy-roberts.net/misc/latex/latextutorial4.html \begin{tabular}{ll} Cell A1 & Cell B1 \\ Cell A2 & Cell B2 \end{tabular} %End of Abbreviations \end{singlespace} %%%%%%%%%%%%% %% M E A T %% %%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{abstract} An abstract would go here \end{abstract} \pagenumbering{arabic} %get proper numbers for pages from here on in %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%% I N T R O D U C T I O N %%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \linenumbers %Useful for when you're editing(but not in the final document), as this puts linenumbers in \chapter{Introduction} \label{ch:intro} \section{Introductory introduction} \subsection{Citations} Using a bibtex file (I like using Kbib for this as it can search pubmed to import references) you can reference items in the file by it's "key" by typing \cite{key} and it will reference in the text correctly, and construct the bibliography as indicated at the end. \subsection{Referring to figures} I wish for you to see fig.\ref{fig: short-label} %%% Single figure \begin{figure} \centering \includegraphics[scale=0.4]{Images/image.jpg} \caption{Caption goes here, including references or citations\cite{Wikipedia2008})} \label{fig: short-label} %short label here so that we can refer to it in the text by it's figure number \end{figure} %%two images/figures next to each other \begin{figure} \centering \subfloat[Label1]{\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{Images/name-of-image.jpg}} \subfloat[Label2]{\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{Images/name-of-image2.jpg}} \caption{Captoin information} \label{fig: label} \end{figure} %% Numbered list \begin{enumerate} \item Item 1 \item Item 2 \item Item 3 \end{enumerate} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%% M E T H O D S %%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \chapter{Methods \& Materials} \label{ch:methods} \section{1} This is top \subsection{12} This is a section of above \subsubsection{123} This is a section of the one above it %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%% R E S U L T S %%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \chapter{Results} \label{ch:results} \subsection{example} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%% D I S C U S S I O N %%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \chapter{Discussion} \label{ch:discussion} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%% B I B L I O G R A P H Y %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \newcommand{\bibpreamble}{References in the style of Nature} \bibliographystyle{unsrtnat} \bibliography{Bibliography-Dissertation} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%% A P P E N D I C I E S %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \chapter{Appendix 1} \label{ch:appendix} Use if needed. \end{large} \end{document}