General ⇒ Get the word Appendix in heading

[matt1]

Hello,

I've used latex a few years ago for creating a report, now I am creating an article. I changed the formatting to remove the contents page and numbering. However, once I created my appendix I lose the "Appendix A" at the top of the page to simply "A". How do I get the prefix "Appendix" back? I must have removed it somehow when I eliminated my contents.

Code 1, appendix file. Code 2, main file.

Thank you.

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\section{Data}
\centerline{\rule{149mm}{.02in}}
\vspace{2cm}

Stuff.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}

% Package for figures
\usepackage{lscape,graphicx}

\usepackage{url}
%\usepackage{times}
\usepackage{alltt}
\usepackage{subfigure}
\usepackage{mathptmx}  % if you have maths
\newcommand{\PD} [2]{\frac{\partial #1}{\partial #2}}

\usepackage{blindtext}

% Various parameters
\setlength{\hoffset}{0in}
\setlength{\textheight}{8.75in}
\setlength{\textwidth}{6.25in}
\setlength{\headsep}{0.5in}
\setlength{\footskip}{0.5in}
\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{0in}
\setlength{\evensidemargin}{0in}
\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.5}
\setlength{\footnotesep}{3ex}

\setcounter{secnumdepth}{-1}

\begin{document}

\thispagestyle{empty}

\include{cover}          % This is the front page

\pagestyle{plain}
\pagenumbering{roman}
\setcounter{page}{1}

\addtolength{\parskip}{\baselineskip}
\setlength{\parindent}{0in}

% Set up page numbering
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\setcounter{page}{1}

\include{abstract}
\include{intro}
\include{background}
\include{methods}
\include{results}

% include the bibliography
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\numberline { }Bibliography}
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{refs}

\setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}
\setcounter{tocdepth}{4}

% include the appendices
\appendix
\include{appendixa}

\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

You use sections, and by

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\section{Heading}

you get

1 Heading

or in case of an appendix, which is alphabetically numbered,

A Heading

Not:

Section 1

Heading

or

Appendix A

Heading

The latter you would get by \chapter, as you probably did with the report class. Now you use the article class without chapters, so you lost the chapter style. You still could get it for example using the titlesec package, however it's perhaps not a good idea to change the section heading layout only because the appendix starts.

Stefan

[matt1]

Appendix A

Heading

The latter you would get by \chapter, as you probably did with the report class. Now you use the article class without chapters, so you lost the chapter style. You still could get it for example using the titlesec package, however it's perhaps not a good idea to change the section heading layout only because the appendix starts.

Stefan

The above is what I desire but am currently achieving example 2 that you showed.

I might just fudge it and create a normal section and call it the Appendix. I wouldn't normally put an appendix on an article but for my assessment it is necessary.

Thank you for your advice.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Do you have several appendix sections? If not, you could omit the A, just writing "Appendix".

Such as:

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\appendix
\part*{Appendix}
\section*{Heading}
text ...
\end{document}

Stefan

[matt1]

At the moment I only have one, but will almost certainly need more. I really appreciate the quick response to my question as my deadline is looming and these small things can be irritating.

Cheers