General ⇒ Numbering Reference Section in TOC

[cheburns]

So I'm pretty new to latex and am writing my thesis with it. I created a reference section with

\begin{thebibliography}{99}
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{References}

so that it would be included in my table of contents. It is there, but it isn't numbered like all of the other major sections. ie the format

1 Intro
1.1 blah
1.2 blah
2 Paper
2.1 blah
2.1 blah
Reference

How can I either get rid of the main section numbering (while leaving the subsection 1.1 1.2 etc) or make it so the reference section gets numbered.

Thanks
Chris

[localghost]

Assuming that you are using a standard class, I suggest to use the tocbibind package.

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\usepackage[nottoc,notlof,notlot,numbib]{tocbibind}

For other document classes there would be built-in features.


Best regards
thorsten¹

[cheburns]

I added that line of code to the beginning of my document (in the preamble) and it didn't fix the problem and produced 2 Errors with the following message:

! LaTeX Error: File 'tocbibind.sty' not found.
Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)
Enter file name:

! Emergency Stop.
<read *>

Any idea whats going on.

Thanks for the feedback

[localghost]

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! LaTeX Error: File 'tocbibind.sty' not found.
Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)
Enter file name:

! Emergency Stop.
<read *>

The error message already says it in the very first line. The package is not installed on your system. Start the package manager of your LaTeX distribution and install it.