Appendix Material

An appendix (or appendices) is an optional section and is not required. An appendix can be used to include additional material that is not integral to the body of the disquisition. Supplementary material can be included as separate files, as well; up to 30 files of 2 GB may be included with your disquisition.

Although appendices contain supplementary material, they should follow our general requirements for construction, including accessibility. Appendix content should be formatted consistently with similar content from your chapters. Appendix page numbers should be continued from the preceding chapters—do not restart page numbers at the appendix section.

Guidelines: Appendices

  • 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 the policies section on usingstyle manual from your discipline.
  • 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 has a major heading, and therefore must be included in the Table of Contents, just like the disquisition chapters. If you include subheadings from your chapters in the Table of Contents, then you must also include the subheadings of the same level from your appendices. See the Table of Contents page for more information about headings in the Table of Contents.

To help facilitate the inclusion of large tables, compliance documents, or other supplementary information, you may omit titles for non-text items that appear alone in an appendix. In this case, the appendix major heading serves as the title of the non-text item, taking the place of the item's normal title. Appendix tables, figures, schemes, and other non-text items should otherwise be formatted similarly to any respective items in the chapters.

  • The item should not have a title. Instead, the appendix major heading will serve as the item's title, and that heading should include some description of the item; for example, "APPENDIX D. ANOVA RESULTS FROM CHAPTER 3". As normal, the item may have notes.
  • The item should not have an entry in its respective List of Appendix Items. As normal, the appendix major heading should be included in the Table of Contents.
  • Tables that span across multiple pages do not need continued titles on each page. As normal, the header row should still be repeated on each page. (In Word, enable the "repeat header row" option under the Table Layout tab.)
  • Figures may span across multiple pages, unlike figures in the chapters. As normal, each individual image still requires alt-text.
    • We generally recommend against multipage figures, but this option may be useful for other types of images not normally considered to be a figure, such as copyright licenses or compliance documents. (Note that copyright licenses should be uploaded to your ETD on ProQuest, and that doing so is both necessary and sufficient.)

See Appendices A, B, E, F, and H of this disquisition for examples of these special rules.

  • 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; for example, “APPENDIX. SUPPLEMENTARY TABLES”. Do not include an additional letter for the appendix: “APPENDIX A”. Appendices should only be lettered if you document has multiple appendices.
  • 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.
    • Tables, figures, and non-text items should be formatted similarly to their respective items in the chapters, including their titles. For example, if you use chapter-wise numbering for item numbers in the chapters (figure 1.1, table 2.1, scheme 2.2, etc.) then your appendix item numbers should be formatted similarly (figure A.1, table A.2, etc.).
    • You should include a respective prefatory list for appendix items; see List of Appendix Tables, Figures, Schemes, etc. for more information.

  • Appendices should be labeled with a letter
    • Each appendix should use a different letter in the title (“APPENDIX A”, “APPENDIX B”, etc.). The major heading on the first page of the appendix can consist of simply “APPENDIX A”, or can have an additional title; for example, “APPENDIX A. RESEARCH COMPLIANCE FORMS”.
      • When you have multiple appendices, you should strongly consider adding a title to each appendix that describes the content of that appendix so that 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 the appendix, the number of each item must begin with the letter of the appendix in which it appears. Do not continue item numbering from the chapters or between appendices.
    • Tables, figures, and non-text items should be formatted similarly to their respective items in the chapters, including their titles. For example, if you use chapter-wise numbering for item numbers in the chapters (figure 1.1, table 2.1, scheme 2.2, etc.) then your appendix item numbers should be formatted similarly (figure A.1, table A.2, scheme B.1, etc.).
    • You should include a respective prefatory list for appendix items; see List of Appendix Tables, Figures, Schemes, etc. for more information.

Quick Answers

A "single" non-text item should be one whole item--a table, a figure, etc.--even if the item has multiple parts or spans across pages. For example,

  • a single, continuous table, regardless of length.
  • a single, continuous listing, regardless of length.
  • a single image.
  • a group or set of images that would be considered composite parts of a whole.
    • ... such as multiple images of the same compliance documents.
    • ... such as multiple images from the same PowerPoint slideshow.