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Appendices allow you to include detailed information in your paper that would be distracting in the main body of the paper. Examples of items you might have in an appendix include mathematical proofs, lists of words, the questionnaire used in the research, a detailed description of an apparatus used in the research, etc.
Your paper may have more than one appendix. Usually, each distinct item has its own appendix. If your paper only has one appendix, label it "Appendix" without quotes. If there is more than one appendix, label them "Appendix A," "Appendix B," etc. In the main text, you should refer to the Appendices by their labels.
The actual format of the appendix will vary depending on the content; therefore, there is no single format. So you should note this in the appendix.
You can mention whatever is used, i. Tape recorder, video recorder, the camera for pictures or any other device. Your readers should know how did you use the device while conducting the research and taking the interviews or surveys. It will help your audience understand the method and techniques used in your research. You should include the complete interview transcripts, survey question answers and any correspondence as part of the appendix.
You can include the photocopies of handwritten notes and contents or online copies. It will depend on whether you have written your paper and appendix in word processor or on a physical medium.
Like most of the writing assignments, the appendix also has some formatting conventions to be followed.
They are as below. Title of the appendix can be in the same format as the title of the other sections of your research paper or presentation. You can write it in the same font style and size. It can also be written in all capital letters, i.
Use Appendix A, Appendix B, Appendix C and so on to give them a proper ordering if you have to create more than one appendix. If you want to use numbers, write them like Appendix 1, Appendix 2, Appendix 3 and so on.
Whichever ordering style you use, i. Also, when you have more than one appendix, you should begin each of them on a new page. This is to avoid confusion for the reader on where one ends and other begins. Content should be ordered in the same order as they are referenced in the main text. For example, if you have mentioned a chart in the first paragraph, you should place that chart first in the appendix.
Same way, if you have mentioned about a table in the last chapter or at the end of the paper, it should be displayed in the last in your appendix. Ordering this way will be useful for the audience as it makes referencing easy and user-friendly. The appendix is generally placed after the reference list in the research paper. However, you can place it as per the instruction of your professor if you are writing an assignment for your school.
You should also mention the appendix title in the table content if you have created. When there are more than one appendix, you should write each of them on the new page. So you will also need to give numbers to them. The numbers can be displayed at the bottom of the page in the center or the right corner.
Make sure to use the same numbering style as used for the pages of the main body of your paper. Continue the numbering from the main body to the appendix so that it looks like a part of the paper. Hi, I have only one appendix Appendix with text and a table. How should I call this table? Should I then just call it "Table 1"? I am creating an academic portfolio. My narrative pages explain the information supported by documentation in my appendices. In some paragraphs, I am mentioning artifacts that are found in more than one appendix.
What is the correct way to notate that in the narrative pages? Generally, when referring to your appendices, it's best to make it clear where a certain element can be found the first time you mention it, and then subsequently just refer to it without specifying again where it is.
For example, if your appendix featured transcripts of interviews which you quote from in the text, you would refer to the appendix only the first time you quote from it, and not repeat this information for each quotation. If you mean that you are referring to a piece of information that can be found in multiple appendices, my question would be why you have repeated this element in multiple places.
Is it necessary to do so? If for some reason it is necessary, then you could write something like " see Appendices A and B " to refer to it. I have written code in R for my data analysis, should the code be included in the appendix?
I do not refer to an appendix for anything else, so the appendix would only include the R- code. I can't really advise you specifically on whether that should be in your appendix.
Anything that you refer to in your text and that would add relevant additional information for your readers may be included in an appendix, but it's best to consult with your supervisor if you're not sure about including something.
It's certainly no problem for your appendix to only include one thing; there's no minimum to what you can include in an appendix. If I have multiple data tables and am using the same Appendix and then labeling as B1, B2, B3- does each table get its own page? This is for APA 7th. I can't find anywhere where APA specifies this, but their rule for tables that are not embedded in the text is to place them on separate pages, so I think it's safe to assume the same standard would apply if the tables are collected in an appendix.
I suggest placing each one on its own page. I'm creating an appendix that includes results from two surveys that were conducted and the email sent to respondents for the survey. Do they each need to be in a separate appendix, or just one. You could either have them all in one appendix, with subheadings, or in separate appendices. Using separate appendices seems like the more straightforward option in this case, to me. Give each appendix a letter A, B, C Appendix A. Results from the First Survey.
If my appendix is a formal letter with a letterhead in PDF format, how do I label and include it in the thesis? Should I attach a preview in image format, or the pages itself? If only the text of the letter is important, you could just include that as an appendix.
If its presentation, including the letterhead, is important to retain, it may be best to embed it as an image. An appendix may consist entirely of an image, in which case the image doesn't need a specific figure label and title; the appendix title serves that purpose. If my appendix needs subheadings, do I use the same rules as subheadings in the body? I would like to be able to reference them by their subsection numbers, but I need named titles for these also.
I am providing blocks of code in an appendix titled "Provided Code" and the code blocks have specific purposes and have been titled accordingly. APA doesn't provide specific guidance on subdividing appendices like this. Your approach seems sensible, following the same numbering conventions you use in the main text and providing a descriptive heading for each subdivision of the appendix.
Another option might be to treat the different blocks of code as either tables or figures, if this is appropriate to how you display them. Then you could label them as e. I reference these programs in the body of the paper, somehow it doesn't feel natural to refer to them as tables or figures.
Ultimately if that is the appropriate thing to do, then it should be applied. However, if it is acceptable to provide subheadings with a number, that would be preferable. I did find this quote yesterday that suggested there was information in the apa6 style manual, but I don't own a copy and I'm short on time. Yep, you're right actually, APA 6 does mention this.
It still doesn't provide specific guidance about how to number them APA doesn't specifically discuss numbering headings in general, but it's still something you can do within an APA paper if you like. I'd suggest using subheadings in your case, and numbering them the way you initially suggested seems appropriate. It's the only table I've used in my document, also in the main body of text would I write 'Table 1. Just confused on the labelling of it as a table.
No, if Appendix C is just a table, you only need the heading "Appendix C" and a title describing the content of the table. You don't need an extra label and title for the table itself. Then you can reference it in the text by writing e.
Hi, I was wondering how you would format one appendix with one table only in a report; would you give the table a label and title like in the main body of the report, or would you just have "Appendix", then the title of the appendix Table of Struggling to find anything for APA 7 formatting for this situation!
Yes, your instinct is right: if the appendix consists solely of a table, then you just write "Appendix" or e. Then there's no additional label and title for the table itself; the appendix label and title serve that purpose. Hi, I'm wondering whether the figures and tables in the appendices should be mentioned in the list of tables and list of figures, respectively?
Thanks in advance, Noemi. The APA manual doesn't provide specific guidance on this issue, but my recommendation would be to include such figures and tables in your lists of tables and figures, yes. I've been asked to type up the items from my questionnaire into my appendix, and given it doesn't count as a table, or a figure, I was wondering how to format it? It's not exactly 'text' in the typical sense either, so doing a first line indent and all that would feel weird to me :'. I'd recommend including a brief introductory sentence ending in a colon e.
You'd still have the initial indent on that introductory sentence, but the rest would just be presented as a list. You don't need to add another "Appendix" heading for a subsequent page of the appendix.
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