I am getting my references together alongside trying to write up - it is an ideal task for when I am all written out! I am amazed how many there are - is it just me or do you all have hundreds?

Hi kikula, I'm quite certain that everyone doing a PhD has hundreds of references come writing up time - apart from maybe those that deal with theoretical physics and mathematics.

I have 550 footnotes. Each footnote can have one or more references in it. Some have many many.

I did a mathematical based subject and ended up with about 300 in my final thesis out of about 500 overall (well, once I'd stopped counting). But then I did it interdisciplinary so ended up with quite a lot of references from different areas. My literature review was huge but very detailed!