Bibliography as Chapter in Table of Contents is not working

Question

I added the following package:

\usepackage{scrlayer-scrpage}
\automark{chapter}
\clearpairofpagestyles
\setkomafont{pagehead}{\small\upshape}
\ohead{\rightmark}
\cfoot*{\pagemark}
\renewcommand*\chaptermarkformat{}

This however results in my Bibliography (References) shown as section instead of chapter in the table of contents. Does anyone know why this is the case? I already tried

\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Bibliography}

This adds References as Chapter, but the Refernces as Section still remains.

Does anyone know how to solve this problem?

Thank you!

Answer 1

Bases on your first question and the given code snippet above (better is to show us a complete short tex code building your bibliography and TOC so we do not have to guess what you are doing ...) first a solution for KOMA-Script only. Please see that I added option bibliography=totoc, for class scrreprt (needed for chapters or scrbook):

\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@Book{Goossens,
  author    = {Goossens, Michel and Mittelbach, Frank and 
               Samarin, Alexander},
  title     = {The LaTeX Companion},
  edition   = {1},
  publisher = {Addison-Wesley},
  location  = {Reading, Mass.},
  year      = {1994},
}
@Book{adams,
  title     = {The Restaurant at the End of the Universe},
  author    = {Douglas Adams},
  series    = {The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy},
  publisher = {Pan Macmillan},
  year      = {1980},
}
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass[%
  fontsize=12pt, 
  titlepage, 
  paper=a4, 
  twoside,
  bibliography=totoc, % <===============================================
]{scrreprt}

\usepackage{xurl}

\usepackage{scrlayer-scrpage}
\automark{chapter}
\clearpairofpagestyles
\setkomafont{pagehead}{\small\upshape}
\ohead{\rightmark}
\cfoot*{\pagemark}
\renewcommand*\chaptermarkformat{}


\begin{document}

\tableofcontents % <====================================================

\chapter{Chapter one}
\section{Section one}

\cite{Goossens} and \cite{adams}.
\urlstyle{same}
\bibliographystyle{plain} % <===========================================
\bibliography{\jobname} % <=============================================
\end{document}

and its result:

Please see that the Bibliography is added to the TOC in chapter style (red arrows; compare with Chapter one above).

In your first question you are using apacite. Please note that you have to add option [nosectionbib] to the call of apacite to get the bibliography in TOC in chapter style:

\usepackage[nosectionbib]{apacite} % <=================================

Please see the following complete mwe

\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@Book{Goossens,
  author    = {Goossens, Michel and Mittelbach, Frank and 
               Samarin, Alexander},
  title     = {The LaTeX Companion},
  edition   = {1},
  publisher = {Addison-Wesley},
  location  = {Reading, Mass.},
  year      = {1994},
}
@Book{adams,
  title     = {The Restaurant at the End of the Universe},
  author    = {Douglas Adams},
  series    = {The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy},
  publisher = {Pan Macmillan},
  year      = {1980},
}
\end{filecontents}

\documentclass[%
  fontsize=12pt, 
  titlepage, 
  paper=a4, 
  twoside,
  bibliography=totoc, % <===============================================
]{scrreprt}

\usepackage[nosectionbib]{apacite} % <=================================
\bibliographystyle{apacite}

\usepackage{xurl}

\usepackage{scrlayer-scrpage}
\automark{chapter}
\clearpairofpagestyles
\setkomafont{pagehead}{\small\upshape}
\ohead{\rightmark}
\cfoot*{\pagemark}
\renewcommand*\chaptermarkformat{}


\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

\chapter{Chapter one}
\section{Section one}

\cite{Goossens} and \cite{adams}.
\urlstyle{same}
\bibliography{\jobname} % <=============================================
\end{document}

and its result:

Answer 2

Thank you so much for your quick response. I changed

\usepackage{apacite}

to

\usepackage[nosectionbib]{apacite}

and now it is working!