Appendices in a thesis are usually at the end of the document, but before the bibliography. The class implements
this with two environments: {appendix}
for a single appendix and {appendices}
for multiple appendices. If
your thesis organization requires appendices per-chapter, you must use the [chapterapp]
class option. In either
case, the code for appendices is identical, i.e., each appendix is introduced with the \chapter
command.
If you have a single appendix, your code should look like this:
\begin{appendix} \chapter{Your appendix title} Appendix text goes here \end{appendix}
If you have more than one appendix, your code should look like this:
\begin{appendices} \chapter{Your first appendix title} Appendix text goes here \chapter{Your second appendix title} Appendix text goes here \end{appendices}
If you need to add an appendix or appendices to a chapter, you must use the [chapterapp] class option. The
code for the appendices themselves is exactly as described above. This means that the appendix itself is
introduced by the \chapter
command, not a \section
command (because this seems to be how the thesis office
wants things to look). Furthermore, per-chapter appendices should not be preceded by the \backmatter
command, which should not be used at all.