main.tex

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,oneside]{report}

% Page and header styling
\usepackage[top=30mm, bottom=25mm, left=30mm, right=38mm]{geometry}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{tocloft}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{etoolbox} % for patching commands

% Font encoding and input encoding
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

% Fonts & Symbols
\usepackage{palatino}
\usepackage{mathpazo}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{bbding}

\usepackage[skip=10pt plus1pt]{parskip} % paragraph formatting
\usepackage[colorlinks=true, linkcolor=blue, filecolor=magenta, urlcolor=cyan]{hyperref} % link formatting
\usepackage[table,dvipsnames,svgnames,x11names]{xcolor} % more color option

\usepackage{booktabs}% table environment
\usepackage{multirow}% multi-row in tables
\usepackage{multicol}% multi-column in tables
\usepackage{longtable}% multi-page tables
\usepackage{graphicx} % images
\usepackage{subcaption}
% Honor the surrounding font in some version of `siunitx`.
\usepackage[detect-all]{siunitx}
% Format units using the US spelling that is used as a de facto standard.
\sisetup{group-separator={,},group-minimum-digits={3},output-decimal-marker={.}}


% For bibliography management
\usepackage[backend=bibtex, style=numeric]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{references.bib}

% Redefine marks to remove uppercase
\titleformat{\chapter}[hang]{\huge\bfseries}{\thechapter \, |\,}{2pc}{}
\titleformat{\section}[hang]{\Large\bfseries}{\thesection}{1pc}{}
\titleformat{\subsection}[hang]{\large\bfseries}{\thesubsection}{1pc}{}

% Avoid uppercase in TOC
\renewcommand{\cftchapfont}{\normalfont\bfseries}
\renewcommand{\cftsecfont}{\normalfont}
\renewcommand{\cftsubsecfont}{\normalfont}

% Custom header formatting
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[LE,RO]{\nouppercase{\leftmark}}
\fancyhead[RE,LO]{\nouppercase{\rightmark}}
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}

% Patch \chaptermark and \sectionmark to avoid uppercase
\makeatletter
\patchcmd{\chaptermark}{\MakeUppercase}{}{}{}
\patchcmd{\sectionmark}{\MakeUppercase}{}{}{}
\makeatother

% User-defined commands
\newcommand{\X}{\XSolidBrush{}}
\newcommand{\V}{\Checkmark{}}

%%
%% CONTENT
%%

\begin{document}

% Add your title, used in parts of the document
% This is used for both types of document (thesis, report)
\newcommand{\theprojecttitle}{The Title}

% Cover page (choose one, comment out the other)
\include{cover-thesis} % MSc or BSc thesis 
\include{cover-report} % internship, SPP, etc.

% Abstract (for theses only)
\newpage
\begin{abstract}
    Your abstract goes here.
\end{abstract}

% Table of Contents
\tableofcontents
\newpage

% List of Figures
\listoffigures
\newpage

% List of Tables
\listoftables
\newpage

% Chapters
\include{content}

% Bibliography
\printbibliography

% Appendices (comment out if not needed)
\appendix
\include{appendices}

\end{document}