Appendices

If you have large amounts of raw data that support your paper, then they need to be placed in an appendix. Information that is appropriate for inclusion in an appendix are charts, graphs, large tables, statistical data, sample surveys, and large images to name a few. If you have a question about whether or not information that you have accumulated in the course of researching your paper should be included in an appendix, be sure to check with your teacher.

The difference between footnotes, endnotes, and appendices is that generally the information included in an appendix is information that you created in the process of doing the research. If you created a chart or a graph, if you passed out surveys and did statistical analyses of the results, then all of this can be put in an appendix. Generally, appendices are divided according to the type of information. One appendix might contain examples of your surveys. A second appendix might contain tables of the results. You can have as many appendices as you need.

Any appendices are located after the body of the paper (and any endnotes you may have) and before the bibliography. If there is more then one appendix in a paper, then they are always labeled alphabetically - Appendix A, Appendix B, and so on.

When you are discussing information that is included in an appendix the appropriate way to refer readers to it is either through a parenthetical note or a footnote. The correct format for such a reference is:

See Figure *number of figure*, "*name or title of figure*", Appendix *number of appendix*

For example:

See Figure 2, "Chicago Crime Reports by Neighborhood, 2000-2001", Appendix B
See the sample survey, Appendix A
See Figure 3, "Price Variation by Geographic Variation", Appendix