Hi Kitty,

Yes, it’s fine if the explanation is a bit longer when you need to provide more information about what each appendix contains.

Thanks so much

Kitty

Hi Camille,

Indeed APA’s guidelines suggest an appendix would not usually be used for the kind of material you describe. I’d suggest discussing with your supervisor what you can do about the excessively long theoretical explanations. It may be that you don’t need so much explanation, or can just refer the reader to another article that explains the topic in more depth.

Hi Matthew,

Indeed it doesn’t seem to make sense to embed the video. APA does mention that things like videos that are difficult to include in an appendix can instead be included as supplemental materials, but this is mainly in the context of journal articles; they say it’s not usually done for student papers. It might be best to simply ask your supervisor for guidance on this point, as APA doesn’t provide much help.

Thanks!

Hi Rebecca,

No, there’s no other specific classification you could use, but you’re free to use headings within an appendix. For convenience when referring to them, you could number the headings in some way; APA doesn’t require you to do this or provide any guidance on it, but they don’t forbid you from doing so. Alternately, as long as the headings used are clearly descriptive of the content, you could just refer the reader to the relevant overall appendix and allow them to find the relevant part themselves: “(see Appendix B)”

Thank you. Your responses to both questions work well together. Incorporating your advice, I see that I could conceivably group the additional information into 9 sections and create my appendices based on that. The information I need to include will need to be broken down into sub sections; however the information is neither in table nor illustrative/image format (figure). When the additional information is text, does it fall under ‘figure’ classification or is there a third type of classification I can be using to differentiate?

Hi Rebecca,

For your first question, APA doesn’t give any specific recommendation as far as I can tell. I think it would be very rare to have so many appendices in a paper; at that point you might think about dividing the information in a different way so that it fits into fewer appendices. But I can imagine if it was absolutely necessary you could use AA, AB, AC, etc.

For your other question, APA does specify that appendices should always begin on a new page. Again, it’s probably worth rethinking how your appendices are divided. Not every table/figure/piece of information needs to be its own appendix; if you have a lot of separate materials to include, it’s preferable to combine those that are related or comparable in some way into a single appendix.