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396 - Appendix as a repertory of particularly comprehensive materials
- attached after the bibliography
- Appendix formatting and index create an overview
- Appendix must be consistently formatted
This belongs in the appendix
One thing in advance: an appendix is not always necessary – some Bachelor’s thesis can get by without one at all. However, if there is material and documents that exceed the scope of the text due to their scope, but are important for your argument and the topic, you can collect them in an appendix when writing and attach them to the work. This is where only content that does not fit into the body of the work goes. These include, for example, the following documents:
- Transcripts of interviews or discussions
- Protocols of experiments and observations
- Questionnaires
- Presentation of statistics or formulas in detailed form
- Research results and data evaluations
- Questionnaires
- Extensive tables, figures and graphics
- Correspondence or forms in electronic form or in copy
There are no generally binding guidelines in scientific papers for the size of an appendix or the number of documents it contains. The basic rule is that the elements that are important for understanding when reading should be included in the text as briefly as possible and as completely as necessary – aeverything else goes in the appendix.
Create the appendix index in MS Word
For extensive appendices, an appendix index provides an overview. It forms the introduction to the appendix and lists the materials it contains. Such a list is a real help for the reader, especially if the attached data and documents are organized in more than two appendices of a larger size.
You can easily create the appendix list yourself in a word processing program such as MS Word – in this case you have the choice of either creating a custom table of contents or using the style template function to create a new style template specifically for the appendix.
Refer to the appendix
As the material in the appendix is important for the argumentation of the work, you will refer to the appendix or appendices once or several times in your text – conversely, the appendix should not contain any materials that you do not refer to in the main text. If the appendix is manageable, you can insert the reference in the form of “see Appendix 1” or “cf. Appendix B”. For very extensive appendices in which you refer to a specific text passage or graphic, the page number within the appendix must be given in addition to the numbering. The way in which the page is numbered should correspond to the page numbers for the bibliography.
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