Table of contentes: title overlaping

Question

I am using this code for table of contents,

\tableofcontents{}

but for the sections where I apply

\renewcommand{\thesection}{Appendix \Alph{section}}
\section{- Summary statistics by year}

the reference in the table of contents appears overlapped, like:

Can you please help me? Thanks!

Same problem here. Potential duplicate: Roman numerals become “too wide” in table of contents — barbara beeton, Apr 04 '21 at 21:24

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 07 '20 at 16:48

Use the tocloft package. For example as in the MWE below:

% tocappprob.tex  SE 552614
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tocloft}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\section{Conclusion}
\appendix
\renewcommand{\thesection}{Appendix \Alph{section}}
\addtocontents{toc}{\setlength{\cftsecnumwidth}{6em}} % increase the space for section numbers
\section{Statistics}
\end{document}

Apart from the package the key line is the \addtocontents{toc}{...} which inserts the command in the ToC to increase the space for your appendix section numbers.

It would have been helpful if you had provided an MWE (from \documentclass... to \end{document}. I had to guess as to what your code might look like and I think got it wrong. Anyway, tocloft and \addtocontents{toc}{...} should be what you need.

Table of contentes: title overlaping

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