LaTeX/Thesis

Using the class defined by uwthesis.cls will take care of most of the formatting required by the Graduate School as defined in their Policy and Style Manual for Theses and Dissertations

The uwthesis.cls file is included in some LaTeX distributions or can be downloaded from the author's website: http://staff.washington.edu/fox/tex/thesis.shtml

That site also provides the example file uwthesis.tex, which is a good starting place for one's own thesis or dissertation.