\appendix (LaTeX2e unofficial reference manual (November 2018))

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### 6.6 `\appendix`

Synopsis:

    \appendix

This does not directly produce any output. But in a book or report it declares that subsequent `\chapter` commands start an appendix. In an article it does the same, for `\section` commands. It also resets the `chapter` and `section` counters to 0 in a book or report, and in an article resets the `section` and `subsection` counters.

In this book

    \chapter{One}  ...
    \chapter{Two}  ...
     ...
    \appendix
    \chapter{Three}  ...
    \chapter{Four}  ...

the first two will generate output numbered ‘`Chapter 1`’ and ‘`Chapter 2`’. After the `\appendix` the numbering will be ‘`Appendix A`’ and ‘`Appendix B`’. See Larger book template for another example.

The `appendix` package adds the command `\appendixpage` to put a separate ‘`Appendices`’ in the document body before the first appendix, and the command `\addappheadtotoc` to do the same in the table of contents. You can reset the name ‘`Appendix`’ with a command like `\renewcommand{\appendixname}{Specification}`, as well as a number of other features. See the documentation on CTAN.

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