numbering sections for my dissertation

[gemmiegoatlegs]

So I've got
1.Introduction
2.Methods
3.Results

1. Discussion
2. Conclusions
3. Recommendations

When I am numbering points eg. in my method section I will go 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 etc, but what happens after 2.9???

is there a better way to do this?

Is each step in your method getting a new point?

2(a)(i) etc. ?

After 2.9 comes 2.10, then 2.11.

You're numbering sections within chapters. The number before the point is the chapter number and the number after it is the section number within the chapter.

More than 9 sections is quite a lot for an individual chapter. Do you need to break it up so much? Even in his phd thesis, dp never got past 6 sections in any chapter and many chapters had fewer sections. Each chapter was c8-10k words. I haven't numbered sections within my chapters but I don't have more than 6 or so sections, even in the absurdly long chapters.

If you have subsections within the sections you can number them 2.1.1 (chapter 2, section 1, sub-section 1).