[Tex/LaTex] How to rename “Appendices” in the Table of Contents and in the text

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I would like to change the name of the "Appendices" to "Appendix" in the Table of Contents. So far, I was only able to change the name of the Appendices in the text, by using the following commands in the preamble:

\renewcommand\appendixname{Appendix}
\renewcommand\appendixpagename{Appendix}

Also, I was able to add "Appendix" to the Table of Contents by using the command:

\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Appendix}

However, using this I have both the default "Appendices" and the added "Appendix" in the Table of Contents. Does anyone know how to remove or rename "Appendices" in the Table of Contents?

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So we are talking about the appendix package.

The command \appendixpagename is used to give a name to the heading of the page generated when you use the \appendixpage command.

If you want to change the name that appears in the TOC when you (supposedly) use the command \addappheadtotoc to add this page in the TOC itself, you have to use:

\renewcommand\appendixtocname{Appendix}

Note that both \appendixpagename and \appendixtocname are by default set to "Appendices".

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[Tex/LaTex] Table of contents and appendices

You can always add a line like:

\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{\protect\numberline{A}{Appendix A}}

and section gives the format you want. Then the level in the toc and the format of the heading is independent:

\newcounter{appendix}
\renewcommand\theappendix{\Aleph{appendix}}
\newenvironment{appendix}{%
    \refstepcounter{appendix}
    \subsection*{Appendix \theappendix}
    \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{\protect\numberline{\theappendix}{Appendix \theappendix}}
}{}

I bet there's a package that does this too ;-) Also instead of using \subsection you could define your own heading with \@startsection. But that is more involved and probably not necessary.

As for the bibliography, if I understand you correctly, you can do it in the same way:

\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{References}
\bibliography{mybibliography}

[Tex/LaTex] Custom table of contents with appendices, how to get ‘Chapter’ and ‘Appendix’

In the arguments of \titlecontents, replace \chaptername with \@chapapp. Also, at the beginning of the appendices environment a changed definition of \@chapapp (to \appendixname) must be forwarded to the .toc file. Last, but not least, remove the titletoc option from the appendix package.

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{titletoc}
\usepackage{appendix}

\makeatletter

\titlecontents{chapter}%
 [0em]% 
 {\addvspace{2em}}%
 {\bfseries\@chapapp\ \thecontentslabel\quad}% 
 {\hspace{-0em}}% 
 {\hfill\contentspage}% 
 [\addvspace{0pt}]% 

\g@addto@macro\appendices{%
  \addtocontents{toc}{\protect\renewcommand{\protect\@chapapp}{\appendixname}}%
}

\makeatother

\usepackage{lipsum}
%
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\chapter{First chapter}\lipsum[1]
\section{First section}\lipsum[2]
\subsection{First subsection}\lipsum[3]
\chapter{Second chapter}\lipsum[4]
\section{Second section}\lipsum[5]
\subsection{Second subsection}\lipsum[6]
\subsection{Third subsection}\lipsum[7]
%appendices 
\begin{appendices}
\chapter{First appendix}\lipsum[1]
\section{Some section}\lipsum[2]
\subsection{Some subsection}\lipsum[3]
\subsection{Some subsection}\lipsum[4]
\chapter{Second appendix}\lipsum[5]
\section{Some section}\lipsum[6]
\subsection{Some subsection}\lipsum[7]
\end{appendices}
%
\end{document}

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