Problem with adding Appendix in Latex

Question

Hi all,

I tried the first time to add an appendix to my thesis, here are the commands that I used.

\appendix
\chapter{Appendices}
\input{appendix}

The output looks than as follows:

Appendix A


Appendices


A.1 My first appendix
.....

It does not look to bad, but what is irritating is the Appendices entry after Appendix A. Is there any possibilty I could get rid of it?

If I try the following commands:

\appendix
\input{appendix}

The output looks than as follows:

.1 My first appendix
...

Also not how it is intended. Ideally, it would look like this here:

Appendix A


A.1 My first appendix
.....

Any idea how to do that?

Andrew

Answer 1

In my thesis, I used

\appendix
\include{appendix_name}

Where I just had

\chapter{appendix chapter name}

rendering

Appendix A

Appendix chapter name

textextext

A.0.1 Appendix subchapter

I was satisfied with this result.

Answer 2

Appendices in LaTeX are chapter-level. Your appendix.tex file probably has \section commands to mark each appendix; use \chapter instead, and include it with the syntax from your second try.

Answer 3

You can try:

\newpage    
\appendix    
\section{first section}\label{app:app1}   
\section{second section}\label{app:app2}

Answer 4

The \appendix command tells latex to switch into the appendix mode. By default, chapter in appendix are numbered using capital letter (A, B, ...). Section in appendix are numbered by consecutive number (A.1, A.2, ...).

If you want to use the default behaviour, you can write the following into the appendix.tex file:

\appendix

\chapter{My first appendix}
Blah.

\chapter{My second appendix}
Blah blah.

Then, in you main document, you just include the appendix file where it is appropriate

\input{appendix.tex}