Appendix Material
An appendix (or appendices) is an optional section and is not required. An appendix (or appendices, if you have more than one) is used to include additional material that is not integral to the body of the disquisition.
Although an appendix contains supplementary material and must be numbered differently from the normal chapters, it should be considered similar to the chapters of the disquisition and its content should be formatted consistently to any similar content in the chapters. Page numbers should be continuous from the preceding chapters—do not restart page numbers at the appendix section. Follow the General Requirements for page numbering, font, margins, and paragraphs.
- Citations – If you use or reference material that is not your own, use scholarly citation practices that are consistent with the rest of the disquisition and with the style manual of your discipline. For more information, see References/Works Cited and Style Manuals.
- Headings – Headings in the appendices must use the same formatting, style, and size as the equivalent headings in the disquisition chapters. If headings are numbered in the disquisition chapters, then appendix headings must be numbered as well, where the letter of the appendix is used instead of the chapter number (for example, B.1. would denote the first first-level subheading in the second appendix, Appendix B).
- Major headings for each appendix – The first page of each appendix must include the major heading “APPENDIX” and be formatted like other major headings in the disquisition. If you have one appendix, do not number or letter the appendix. If you have multiple appendices, each appendix must be labeled with a capital letter (see section below about multiple appendices).
- Subheadings – Subheadings in the appendices must share the same formatting as equivalent subheadings in the disquisition chapters, including numbering, font size, and additional formatting. If you use numbered headings in the disquisition, then use the letter of the appendix in place of the chapter number (for example, the first first-level subheading in Appendix B would be numbered as B.1.).
- Entries in the Table of Contents – Each appendix must be included in the Table of Contents as a major heading, just like the disquisition chapters. If you include chapter subheadings in the Table of Contents, then you must also include the subheadings that appear in the appendices (see Table of Contents). Do not identify your appendices in a list that is separate from the Table of Contents.
If You Have One Appendix
- Appendix must be labeled – The major heading on the first page of the appendix can consist of simply “APPENDIX”, or can have an additional title (like “APPENDIX. SUPPLEMENTARY TABLES”). Do not include an additional letter for the appendix (such as “APPENDIX A” – that method is for multiple appendices, as mentioned in the next subsection).
- Tables, figures, non-text items – If you include multiple non-text items in the appendix, the number of each item must begin with “A” to indicate that it is an appendix item. Do not continue item numbering from the chapters (see the section below). You must also include a List of Appendix Tables, Figures, Schemes, etc.
If You Have Multiple Appendices
- Each appendix must be labeled with a capital letter – If you have more than one appendix, each appendix must use a different letter in the title (“APPENDIX A”, “APPENDIX B”, etc.). If each appendix contains only one type of item, such as Research Compliance forms, then you may include that information in the major heading for that appendix, like “APPENDIX A. RESEARCH COMPLIANCE FORMS”.
- Note: When you have multiple appendices, highly consider adding a title to each appendix that describes the content of that appendix. Then, the corresponding entries in the Table of Contents provide more information to your reader about your appendix material. For more information about labeling and titling multiple appendices, refer to the style guide of your discipline.
- Tables, figures, non-text items – If you include multiple non-text items in an appendix, the number of each item must begin with the letter of the appendix in which it appears. For example, the first table that appears in Appendix B would be numbered “Table B1.” You must also include a List of Appendix Tables, Figures, Schemes, etc. For more information about non-text items in the appendix, see the related section below.
Tables, Figures, Schemes, and Non-text Items in Appendices
- Numbering – Non-text items that appear in an appendix must include the letter “A” in the number, or, if you have multiple appendices, use the letter of the appendix in which the item appears. Numbering must also start from the beginning of each appendix (and not be continued from the chapters).
- For example, the first table in the first (or only) appendix would be titled “Table A1”. The first table in the second appendix would be labeled as “Table B1”, and so on. If you are numbering non-text items sequentially according to the chapter in which they appear, the first table in the first (or only) appendix would be titled “Table A.1”, and the first table in the second appendix would be labeled as “Table B.1”, and so on.
- Appendix contains a single non-text item – If a particular appendix consists of only a single non-text item, the title of the appendix can serve as the title of the non-text item, taking the place of the normal title for the non-text item. For example, if Appendix B consists of a single table about crop blight, then the appendix heading could be titled “APPENDIX B. FREQUENCY OF CROP BLIGHT IN NORTH DAKOTA FIELDS”, and the table would have not have a separate table number or table title.
- List of Appendix Tables, Figures, Schemes, etc – If you include tables, figures, schemes, or other non-text items in any appendices, then you must include a corresponding appendix-specific prefatory list in the prefatory material, after the normal List of Tables, List of Figures, List of Schemes, etc. (See List of Appendix Tables, Figures, Schemes, etc.) These lists of appendix items must contain entries only for the non-text items that appear in the appendices. For more information about how to organize the prefatory material, see Required Order of Elements.
- Note: If an appendix consists of a single non-text item and the item title is integrated into the title of the appendix, then the item should not be included in the appropriate List of Appendix items. For example, if there are two tables in Appendix A, two tables in Appendix C, and a solitary table in Appendix B, wherein the major heading is serving as the table’s title, there would only be four entries in the List of Appendix Tables, one for each of the tables in Appendices A and C.