Article inside report

Question

I need to place an article inside a document created with the report class. That means, I need a LaTeX document inside my report, where it is multicolumn'ed and the references are set in the multicolumn'ed article.

How can this be achieved?

I figured out that I can make it multicolumned by

\begin{multicols}{3}
\end{multicols}

But I can not figure out how to do the same with the references.

And how can I insert figures in only one column (I know they're very small pictures)?

Answer 1

Is this what you want, I am not sure that I understand your question.

\documentclass{report}

\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{multicol}

\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]

\vspace{2em}
\hrule

\begin{multicols}{2}
\lipsum[2-3]
\end{multicols}

\hrule
\vspace{2em}

\lipsum[3]

\end{document}