Cfrgtkky

I want my bibliography to be treated as a chapter with class book, but right now it's being treated as a section of the previous chapter (the LE header is of the previous chapter, and it's not bolded / doesn't have the correct spacing in the ToC). None of the fixes I've found online work, perhaps because I have some other conflicting command? Here's a minimal working example:

in main.tex:

documentclass[12pt,letterpaper,openany]{book}

usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

usepackage{amsmath}

usepackage{titling}

usepackage{url}

usepackage{graphicx}

usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}

usepackage{caption}

usepackage{sidecap}

usepackage{fancyhdr}

usepackage{setspace}

usepackage{float}

usepackage{indentfirst}

setlengthparindent{0.5in}

usepackage[nottoc]{tocbibind}

usepackage[titletoc,toc,title,page]{appendix}

usepackage{longtable, booktabs}

usepackage{subfiles}

usepackage{apacite}

usepackage{etoolbox}

usepackage{textgreek}

makeatletter

patchcmd{nocite}{ifx@onlypreambledocument}{iftrue}{}{}

makeatother





fancypagestyle{plain}{%

fancyhf{}% clears all header and footer fields

fancyhead[LE,RO]{thepage}}

setlength{headheight}{14.5pt}



begin{document}



tableofcontents

listoffigures

listoftables





chapter{Chapter1}

subfile{Chapter1.tex}



bibliographystyle{apacite}

bibliography{main.bib}



end{document}

in Chapter1.tex:

documentclass[main.tex]{subfiles}



begin{document}



Example cite{CentralDogma}.



end{document}

in main.bib:

@article{CentralDogma,

  doi = {10.1038/227561a0},

  year  = {1970},

  publisher = {Springer Nature},

  volume = {227},

  number = {5258},

  pages = {561--563},

  author = {Francis Crick},

  title = {Central Dogma of Molecular Biology},

  journal = {Nature}

}

Either load package apacite with option nosectionbib:

documentclass[12pt,letterpaper,openany]{book}

usepackage[nosectionbib]{apacite}% <- option nosectionbib

begin{document}

tableofcontents

chapter{Chapter1}

section{Section 1}

cite{CentralDogma}

bibliographystyle{apacite}

bibliography{main}

end{document}

or put the bibliography in back matter:

documentclass[12pt,letterpaper,openany]{book}

usepackage{apacite}

begin{document}

tableofcontents

chapter{Chapter1}

section{Section 1}

cite{CentralDogma}

backmatter% <- added

bibliographystyle{apacite}

bibliography{main}

end{document}

Result:

I reduced your given code to be more minimal:

documentclass[12pt,letterpaper,openany]{book}



usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

usepackage{url}

usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}



usepackage{apacite}

usepackage{etoolbox}



makeatletter

patchcmd{nocite}{ifx@onlypreambledocument}{iftrue}{}{}

makeatother





begin{document}



tableofcontents



chapter{Chapter1}

section{Section 1}



cite{CentralDogma}



bibliographystyle{apacite}

bibliography{main} % bibliography file without extention .bib!



end{document}

which results in:

In class boob.cls the environment is defined. We can now redefine it with the code (see line two, where we use chapter* as you wish):

renewenvironment{thebibliography}[1]

 {chapter*{bibname}% <============================================

  @mkboth{MakeUppercasebibname}{MakeUppercasebibname}%

  list{@biblabel{@arabicc@enumiv}}%

       {settowidthlabelwidth{@biblabel{#1}}%

        leftmarginlabelwidth

        advanceleftmarginlabelsep

        @openbib@code

        usecounter{enumiv}%

        letp@enumiv@empty

        renewcommandtheenumiv{@arabicc@enumiv}}%

  sloppy

  clubpenalty4000

  @clubpenalty clubpenalty

  widowpenalty4000%

  sfcode`.@m}

 {def@noitemerr

   {@latex@warning{Empty `thebibliography' environment}}%

  endlist} 

With the complete code

documentclass[12pt,letterpaper,openany]{book}



usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

usepackage{url}

usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}



usepackage{apacite}

usepackage{etoolbox}



makeatletter

patchcmd{nocite}{ifx@onlypreambledocument}{iftrue}{}{}

renewenvironment{thebibliography}[1]

     {chapter*{bibname}% <==============================================

      @mkboth{MakeUppercasebibname}{MakeUppercasebibname}%

      list{@biblabel{@arabicc@enumiv}}%

           {settowidthlabelwidth{@biblabel{#1}}%

            leftmarginlabelwidth

            advanceleftmarginlabelsep

            @openbib@code

            usecounter{enumiv}%

            letp@enumiv@empty

            renewcommandtheenumiv{@arabicc@enumiv}}%

      sloppy

      clubpenalty4000

      @clubpenalty clubpenalty

      widowpenalty4000%

      sfcode`.@m}

     {def@noitemerr

       {@latex@warning{Empty `thebibliography' environment}}%

      endlist}

makeatother





begin{document}



tableofcontents



chapter{Chapter1}

section{Section 1}



cite{CentralDogma}



bibliographystyle{apacite}

bibliography{main} % bibliography file without extention .bib! <===========



end{document}

you get the result: