Front Matter, Back Matter, and Metadata by Paul Salvette

Author:Paul Salvette [Salvette, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Publishing, Books, eBooks, Metadata, Independent Authors, Self-Publishing, BB eBooks
Publisher: BB eBooks
Published: 2014-06-02T18:30:00+00:00

Appendixes (aka Appendices)

Appendixes are often necessary for technical works and books that require extensive research. Technical drawings, excerpts from laws, survey results, and checklists are great to put in the Appendix rather than the book’s chapters. For example, if you’re writing a book that explores the ups and downs of a complicated policy like Obamacare, you probably want to cite various portions of the law and provide some statistical evidence. However, you might bore your reader to death by using too many excerpts within the content of the book (please cf. my 2-star review of Charles Murray’s The State of White America). Rather, it may be advantageous from a reader’s standpoint to have this material conveniently in the Appendix so that the reader can easily cite if needed, but the material (often technical) does not inhibit the flow of the book.

Rather than numbers, Appendixes usually start with a letter (Appendix A, Appendix B, etc.) It’s common practice to give the Appendix a descriptive name so that it can be accessed easily through the Table of Contents as seen in the below example:

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