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This question points out that in the book class, as soon as the \backmatter command appears, the chapter numbering ceases to work properly. Thus, one is essentially forced to put the bibliography after the appendices. In principle, I agree with this ordering. However, my university's administration requires that the contents of my thesis appear in the following order:

  • Intro and so forth
  • Body
  • Bibliography
  • Appendices

It is causing me a major headache to get the numbering of the appendix chapters to appear at all. Any suggestions for a workaround?

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  • What does "ceasing to work properly" mean? One could circumvent some of the implications of \backmatter. – Werner Aug 30 '14 at 01:26
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    Just don't issue \backmatter; by default the bibliography is not numbered. – egreg Aug 30 '14 at 11:36
  • @Joesph Wright: Thanks for the advice. Why, don't we delete these comments? I've deleted my first one. – Michael Aug 30 '14 at 18:58

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Simplest hack is to use a group like

{             %%<--- start the group
  \backmatter
  \bibliographystyle{unsrt}
  \bibliography{xampl}
  }             %%<--- end the group
  \appendix

Code:

\documentclass{book}
%\usepackage{appendix}
\begin{document}
  \frontmatter
  \chapter{Some front matter}
  \mainmatter
  \chapter{some main matter}
  \nocite{*}
  {             %%<--- start the group
  \backmatter
  \bibliographystyle{unsrt}
  \bibliography{xampl}
  }             %%<--- end the group
  \appendix
  \chapter{appendix}
  \section{some section in appendix}

\end{document}

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