\appendix ¶Synopsis:
\appendix
This does not directly produce any output. But in a book or
report document it declares that subsequent \chapter
commands start an appendix. In an article it does the same, for
\section commands. It also resets the chapter and
section counters to 0 in a book or report, and in an article
resets the section and subsection counters.
In this book
\chapter{One} ...
\chapter{Two} ...
...
\appendix
\chapter{Three} ...
\chapter{Four} ...
the first two will generate output numbered ‘Chapter 1’ and
‘Chapter 2’. After the \appendix the numbering will be
‘Appendix A’ and ‘Appendix B’. See Larger book template,
for another example.
The appendix package adds the command
\appendixpage to put a separate ‘Appendices’ in the document
body before the first appendix, and the command \addappheadtotoc
to do the same in the table of contents. You can reset the name
‘Appendices’ with a command like
\renewcommand{\appendixname}{Specification}, as well as a
number of other features. See the documentation on CTAN.