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Sometimes you may wish to include material as a supplement to a document, but would not be appropriate or necessary to include in the main body. This material can be included as an appendix if it would help your reader, such as providing further detail to understand your work or replicate a study you have carried out. 

 

The type of material you might include in an appendix could be:

A full search strategy of a literature search

Full set of data from research you have carried out

Templates of questionnaires/scales/tests as relevant to your document

Other detailed or complex information that you may have provided in a summarised format in the main body

  • Begin each appendix on a separate page after your references.
  • Give each appendix a label and a title on separate lines at the top of the page for each appendix.
  • If your document has one appendix you would label it Appendix, if you have multiple appendices you would label them individually in order as Appendix A, Appendix B, and so on.
  • Each appendix needs to be mentioned using its label in the body of your assignment eg. the full data set can be found in Appendix A.
  • The appendix title should describe its content.
  • If an appendix contains multiple tables and figures these would need to be labelled and titled separately eg. Table A1, Figure B2. When referring to them in the body of your assignment you would refer to the label of the individual figure or table rather than the overall appendix.