Washington State University dissertation or thesis template. The template was shared to me by Svetlana Lockwood.
% Change to 'masters' to produces the masters thesis preliminary pages
\documentclass[oneside,phd,etd]{WSUclass}
\usepackage{import}
% preamble contains title page, signature page, acknowledgment and abstract texts
\usepackage{preamble}
% Pacakges used
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % Remove warning on ascii conversion
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % Remove warning on ascii conversion
\usepackage[refsection=part,citestyle=apa,style=authoryear,natbib=true,backend=biber]{biblatex}
\usepackage{hyperref}
% Make chapter numbers into string words 1 -> ONE
\usepackage{fmtcount}
\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\@makechapterhead}[1]{\vspace *{40\p@ }{\parindent \z@
\raggedright \normalfont \ifnum \c@secnumdepth >\m@ne \Huge \bfseries
\@chapapp \space \Numberstring{chapter} \vskip 10\p@ \fi #1\par \nobreak \vskip 30\p@ }}
\makeatother
\addbibresource{bib.bib}
\begin{document}
\hypersetup{breaklinks=true}
% Start page counting in roman numerals
\frontmatter
% This command makes the formal preliminary pages.
% You can comment it out during the drafting process if you want to save paper.
\makepreliminarypages
\doublespace
% Make the table of contents.
\tableofcontents
\thispagestyle{plain}
% Make the list of tables
\mylistoftables
\thispagestyle{plain}
% Make the list of figures
\mylistoffigures
\thispagestyle{plain}
% This page is OPTIONAL. To remove, comment out and \dedicationpage in diss.tex
\dedicationpage
\clearemptydoublepage
% Start regular page counting at page 1
\mainmatter
% OK. Everything is set up. Type your thesis here.
\include{chapter1/ch1}
\include{maintext}
% Bibliography
\begingroup
\setlength\bibitemsep{10pt}
\linespread{1}\selectfont
\printbibliography[title=REFERENCES]
\endgroup
\addcontentsline{toc}{part}{REFERENCES}
% Appendices
\include{app}
\end{document}