Modifying LaTeX Table of Contents to add a period after chapter/table/figure number

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I need to add a period after the chapter/table/figure number in each line in Table of Contents/LoT/LoF.

ie, right now it shows:

TABLES
1   first
2   second

but I need it to show:

TABLES
1.  first
2.  second

I know this can be done with the tocloft package, however, that package is conflicting with the latex style I'm using, with the error: \c@lotdepth is already defined. (The style is an old style for my university's thesis format, but it's slightly out of date, so I need to make some changes to get it right.

I also found that I can change thechapter/thetable/thefigure, so those contain periods. However, that then messes up my references and has the period in all of my references.

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