Document Classes ⇒ Combining multiple articles into a single document

[imoani]

Hello,

I am writing my PhD thesis with Latex, but I am fairly new to Latex and I'm hoping someone may be able to help me.

I would like each chapter of my thesis to be formatted like a scientific journal article (e.g. text in 2 columns, references at the end of each chapter). Essentially, I would like my thesis to look like the printed (book) version of a scientific journal, with a title page, table of contents, page numbers throughout, and each chapter like a separate journal article.

I have a template for making a journal article, but if I want to combine all my chapters into the one document as described, I think I need to use the 'report' document class to do this. I know you can't use multiple document classes though...

So does anyone know the easiest way to solve this problem?

Thank you.

[localghost]

There many ways of combining documents [1]. From my point of view two of them are most commonly used.

• The combine package to merge all your documents during compilation.
• The pdfpages package to merge the documents after all of them have been compiled separately to PDF.

[1] The TeX Catalague Online, Topic Index - Combining Documents


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[imoani]

Thank you very much for the useful reply!