Methods and apparatuses for scheduling multiple downlink transmissions. A method for operating a user equipment to provide hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information includes receiving information for a first HARQ-ACK codebook type and a second HARQ-ACK codebook type and information for a first set of cells and a second set of cells. The method further includes generating a first HARQ-ACK codebook, according to the first HARQ-ACK codebook type, that includes first HARQ-ACK information associated with first receptions on cells from the first set of cells; a second HARQ-ACK codebook, according to the second HARQ-ACK codebook type, that includes second HARQ-ACK information associated with second receptions on cells from the second set of cells; and a HARQ-ACK codebook by appending the second HARQ-ACK codebook to the first HARQ-ACK codebook. The method further includes transmitting a channel that provides the HARQ-ACK codebook.