You can use \frontmatter and \mainmatter to divide the first part (abstract, etc.) from the rest, allowing a different numbering.
You can use the fancyhdr package to customize your page layout and \cleardoublepage{} to make the chapter always start on the odd pages.
Since you didn't add a mwe, I suppose you're using the book documentclass with the twosided (default) option:
% arara: pdflatex % arara: biber % arara: pdflatex % arara: pdflatex \documentclass[11pt,openright]{book} \usepackage[english]{babel} \usepackage{mwe}% only for testing purpose % page layout \usepackage[a4paper]{geometry} \geometry{verbose,tmargin=3cm,bmargin=3.5cm,lmargin=4cm,rmargin=3cm,marginparwidth=70pt} \setcounter{secnumdepth}{3} \setcounter{tocdepth}{3} \usepackage{fancyhdr} \usepackage{booktabs} \usepackage{tabularx} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage[margin=10pt,font=small,labelfont=bf,labelsep=period,format=hang,indention=0cm]{caption} \captionsetup[table]{position=above, belowskip=4pt} \usepackage[style=authoryear-icomp, backend=biber]{biblatex} \usepackage{csquotes} \addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib} % fixes the page number of the first page of each chapter \fancypagestyle{plain}{ \fancyhead{} \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt} \fancyfoot[OC]{\begin{flushright}\thepage\end{flushright}} } % fancy headers for the thesis \fancyhead{} \fancyhead[LE]{\slshape \nouppercase \leftmark} \fancyhead[RO]{\slshape \nouppercase \rightmark} \fancyfoot[EC]{\begin{flushleft}\thepage\end{flushleft}} \fancyfoot[OC]{\begin{flushright}\thepage\end{flushright}} \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.4pt} \setlength{\headheight}{14pt} \begin{document} \frontmatter \pagenumbering{Alph} % avoid the problem with page anchors \pagestyle{empty} \vfill \begin{center} Title page \end{center} \begin{center} \Huge Why people never add a mwe to their post? \end{center} \begin{center} The title page has no numbers. I haven't adjust the geometry of the first page, I leave that to you, because I use \texttt{frontespizio} package. \end{center} \vfill \cleardoublepage{} \pagenumbering{roman} \pagestyle{fancy} \chapter{Acknowledgments} \markboth{Acknowledgments}{Acknowledgments} Roman numbering starts from here. \cleardoublepage{} % dedication \pagestyle{plain} \begin{flushright} \emph{To all my \TeX -\LaTeX\ friends!} I don't know if you want the dedication page this way. \end{flushright} \cleardoublepage{} \pagestyle{fancy} \chapter{Abstract} \markboth{Abstract}{Abstract} Please always add a mwe! \cleardoublepage{} \tableofcontents{} \cleardoublepage{} \listoftables \cleardoublepage{} \listoffigures \cleardoublepage{} \mainmatter \renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]{\markright{\thesection.\ #1}} \renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{\markboth{\thechapter.\ #1}{}} \chapter{This is the first} \section{A section} The Arabic numbering starts from here. \blindtext Just to don't have am empy bibliography: \textcite{knuth:ct}. \begin{figure} \centering \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{example-image-a} \caption{A figure} \end{figure} \begin{table} \centering \begin{tabular}{cc} \toprule A & B \\ \midrule 1 & 2 \\ \bottomrule \end{tabular} \caption{A Table} \end{table} \cleardoublepage{} \chapter{This is the second} \section{A section} \blindtext \begin{figure} \centering \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{example-image-a} \caption{A figure} \end{figure} \begin{table} \centering \begin{tabular}{cc} \toprule A & B \\ \midrule 1 & 2 \\ \bottomrule \end{tabular} \caption{A Table} \end{table} \cleardoublepage{} \chapter*{Conclusions} \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Conclusions} \markboth{Conclusions}{Conclusions} \blindtext \cleardoublepage{} \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Bibliography} \markboth{Bibliography}{Bibliography} \printbibliography Just for example I've used \texttt{biblatex}. \end{document}
Edit:
As Johannes_B noted, there is a previous question of yours, similar to this one, from which I've realized that you're using the documentclass report, that does not provide \frontmatter and \mainmatter. However, it's not a problem, because you can easily fix the numbering anyway.
% arara: pdflatex % arara: biber % arara: pdflatex % arara: pdflatex \documentclass[11pt,a4paper,twoside]{report} \usepackage[inner=4cm,outer=2cm,bottom=3cm]{geometry} \usepackage{setspace} \onehalfspacing \setcounter{secnumdepth}{3} \setcounter{tocdepth}{3} % only for testing purpose - start \usepackage{mwe} % the following instructions are taken from here: http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/37396 % and are used only to repeat tables and figures n times in order to create % long LoT and LoF \usepackage{forloop}% http://ctan.org/pkg/forloop \newcounter{loopcntr}% \newcommand{\rpt}[2][1]{% \forloop{loopcntr}{0}{\value{loopcntr}<#1}{#2}% } % only for testing purpose - stop % page layout \usepackage{fancyhdr} \usepackage{booktabs} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage[margin=10pt,font=small,labelfont=bf,labelsep=period,format=hang,indention=0cm]{caption} \captionsetup[table]{position=above, belowskip=4pt} \usepackage[style=authoryear-icomp, backend=biber]{biblatex} \usepackage{csquotes} \addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib} % fixes the page number of the first page of each chapter \fancypagestyle{plain}{ \fancyhead{} \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt} \fancyfoot[OC]{\begin{flushright}\thepage\end{flushright}} } % fancy headers for the thesis \fancyhead{} \fancyhead[LE]{\slshape \nouppercase \leftmark} \fancyhead[RO]{\slshape \nouppercase \rightmark} \fancyfoot[EC]{\begin{flushleft}\thepage\end{flushleft}} \fancyfoot[OC]{\begin{flushright}\thepage\end{flushright}} \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.4pt} \setlength{\headheight}{14pt} \begin{document} \pagenumbering{Alph} % avoid the problem with page anchors \pagestyle{empty} \vfill \begin{center} Title page \end{center} \begin{center} \Huge Why people never add a mwe to their post? \end{center} \begin{center} The title page has no numbers. I haven't adjust the geometry of the first page, I leave that to you, because I use \texttt{frontespizio} package. \end{center} \vfill \cleardoublepage{} \pagenumbering{roman} \pagestyle{fancy} \chapter*{Acknowledgments} \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Acknowledgments} \markboth{Acknowledgments}{Acknowledgments} Roman numbering starts from here. \cleardoublepage{} % dedication \pagestyle{plain} \begin{flushright} \emph{To all my \TeX -\LaTeX\ friends!} I don't know if you want the dedication page this way. \end{flushright} \cleardoublepage{} \pagestyle{fancy} \chapter*{Abstract} \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Abstract} \markboth{Abstract}{Abstract} Please always add a mwe! \cleardoublepage{} \tableofcontents{} \cleardoublepage{} \listoftables \cleardoublepage{} \listoffigures \cleardoublepage{} \renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]{\markright{\thesection.\ #1}} \renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{\markboth{\thechapter.\ #1}{}} \pagenumbering{arabic} \chapter{Introduction} \section{A section} The Arabic numbering starts from here. \blindtext An citation: \textcite{knuth:ct}. \rpt[40]{% this is only to repeat the figure n times \begin{figure} \centering \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{example-image-a} \caption{A figure} \end{figure} } \rpt[10]{% this is only to repeat the table n times \begin{table} \centering \begin{tabular}{cc} \toprule A & B \\ \midrule 1 & 2 \\ \bottomrule \end{tabular} \caption{A Table} \end{table} \blindtext } \cleardoublepage \chapter{Literature Review} \section{A section} \blindtext \begin{figure} \centering \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{example-image-a} \caption{A figure} \end{figure} \begin{table} \centering \begin{tabular}{cc} \toprule A & B \\ \midrule 1 & 2 \\ \bottomrule \end{tabular} \caption{A Table} \end{table} \cleardoublepage \chapter*{Conclusions} \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Conclusions} \markboth{Conclusions}{Conclusions} \blindtext \cleardoublepage{} \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Bibliography} \markboth{Bibliography}{Bibliography} \printbibliography Just for example I've used \texttt{biblatex}. \end{document}
