Undefined control sequence and \chapter error

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I’m getting an “undefined control sequence” error with the following code, using TeXstudio:

\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{center}
\chapter{CHAPTER 6}
\end{center}
\end{document}

Welcome to TeX.SX! Articles don't have chapters, so the article class doesn't have a \chapter command. Maybe you want to use the report or book class. — egreg, Jun 01 '13 at 15:39
Welcome to TeX.SX! You can have a look on our starter guide to familiarize yourself further with our format. — Claudio Fiandrino, Jun 01 '13 at 15:52

score 49 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:35

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The article class doesn't define the \chapter command, because articles don’t have chapters. Instead they have sections, subsections, etc. If you really want to use article, then you might want to consider using \section, \subsection and so on.

If you really want to use the \chapter command, then I’d suggest using the book or report document classes.

Separately, you generally shouldn’t use \begin{center} … \end{center} for headings. It’s really better used to make lists or similar. A better way to centre your title headings is to use the titlesec package, which is described in another question on TeX.se.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:35

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answered Jun 01 '13 at 16:31

alexwlchan

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Wow this saved my day! – Jinhua Wang Nov 29 '18 at 14:19
In my case, \documentclass[a4paper, 12pt, oneside]{report}
Still it shows “undefined control sequence” error in \chapter{Introduction}
– Amit Amola Aug 16 '23 at 17:54

score 14 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 01 '13 at 15:40

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Command \chapter is undefined in article. It is defined in book or report.

answered Jun 01 '13 at 15:40

Przemysław Scherwentke

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Undefined control sequence and \chapter error

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