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I have a sequence of sections of my paper, followed by a bibliography (bibtex).
It looks pretty much like
\input{asection}
\input{appendix}
\bibliography(bibfile}
The problem is, "appendix" contains several tables, and they're being intersperesed among the bibliography. I want to have all of the tables, then the bibliography.
Adding a page break between sections or writing \begin{table}[h!] is not working. Any help would be appreciated!!
Just change the line \numberwithin{figure}{Chapter} to \numberwithin{figure}{chapter} (chapter without capital C) and it should be fine.
Instead of using table*, you could try tabular*. The *-form takes an additional <width> mandatory argument
\begin{tabular*}{<width>}{<column specification>}
which specifies the width of the tabular environment; in the regular form the width is determined by LaTeX from the contents of the tabular environment. Now, this might only help if you actually want to widen a table/tabular to a specific width. But, in your case you may need to shrink the table/tabular width. For this, there may be some tricks you can employ. However, some of these may be dependent on the journal requirements/specifications. Also, optimal solutions/choice might depend on the degree that your table extends outside the text block. I list a couple here by means of an example:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
Original\par
\begin{tabular}{*{7}{|c}|}
Test 1 & Test 2 & Test 3 & Test 4 & Test 5 & Test 6 & Test 7
\end{tabular}
\bigskip Individual column separation modified via \verb|@{\hspace{<width>}}|\par
\begin{tabular}{*{7}{|@{\hspace{2pt}}c@{\hspace{2pt}}}|}
Test 1 & Test 2 & Test 3 & Test 4 & Test 5 & Test 6 & Test 7
\end{tabular}
\bigskip Global column separation modified via \verb|\renewcommand{\tabcolsep}{<width>}|\par
{\renewcommand{\tabcolsep}{2pt}
\begin{tabular}{*{7}{|c}|}
Test 1 & Test 2 & Test 3 & Test 4 & Test 5 & Test 6 & Test 7
\end{tabular}}
\bigskip Resized horizontally (keeping aspectratio) via \verb|\resizebox{<width>}{<height>}|\par
\resizebox{20em}{!}{\begin{tabular}{*{7}{|c}|}
Test 1 & Test 2 & Test 3 & Test 4 & Test 5 & Test 6 & Test 7
\end{tabular}}
\bigskip Original\par
\begin{tabular}{*{7}{|c}|}
Test 1 & Test 2 & Test 3 & Test 4 & Test 5 & Test 6 & Test 7
\end{tabular}
\end{document}
On a more semantic side of things, here are some suggestions to your code:
\begin{center}...\end{center} is antiquated in LaTeX, and often produces unwanted vertical spacing even though this might not be the case with your tables. Rather use \centering. The l2tabu package gives some mention of this, plus other references to obsolete code for LaTeX2e.*{15}{c} is equivalent to ccccccccccccccc (as in the example above). Of course, there is a limit to this use, since *{2}{c} is less useful than cc. However, readibility is at play here as well as ease of subsequent modification.
Best Answer
I think you want the
\clearpagecommand. It forces LaTeX to push out all floating objects (figures and tables), and start a new page. Just put it in the source before you begin the appendix.A Google search for
\clearpageshould point you to plenty more references if you want them.