Packages useful for creation and customization of table of contents, lists of figures, bibliographies etc.

Table of contents, list of figures, list of tables:

• tocloft - comfortable design of those lists, allowing definition of further lists
• titletoc - customization of toc entries, features for toc, lot, lof additionally to titlesec
• minitoc - small tocs for chapters, parts or sections
• tocbibind - automatical insertion of bibliography, index etc. into the toc, not necessary with KOMA classes

Index:

• makeidx - standard LaTeX package for creation of indexes
• index - enhanced indexes, multiple indexes and more improvements

External programs:

• makeidx - general index generator, flexible input and output, sorting
• xindy - alternative index program, internationalization, modular configuration, markup customization, user defined references and more

Glossaries, nomenclature, lists of acronyms:

• glossaries - glossary, supporting multiple glossaries, lists of acronyms, superseding the glossary package
• nomencl - lists of symbols, nomenclatur
• acronym - comfortable handling of acronyms
• glosstex - provides features like acronym and nomencl and more

Bibliographies:

• BibTeX - powerful program for generation of bibliographies
• tamethebeast - manual for bibliographies and BibTeX
• cite - improved citation
• natbib - author/year citations
• din1505 - styles for german texts

Parts of this lists were translated and used here for the goLaTeX wiki.