See our section on citation styles for more information.įootnotes are not just for interesting comments, however. Some, however, allow you to make parenthetical references (author, date) in the body of your work. Because this makes it convenient for your reader, most citation styles require that you use either footnotes or endnotes in your paper. When your reader comes across the footnote in the main text of your paper, he or she could look down at your comments right away, or else continue reading the paragraph and read your comments at the end. See how it fits in the body of the text?ġ At the bottom of the page you can insert your comments about the sentence preceding the footnote. This is an illustration of a footnote.1 The number “1” at the end of the previous sentence corresponds with the note below. Then, at the bottom of the page you could reprint the symbol and insert your comment. In this case, you could add the symbol for a footnote. For example, say you want to add an interesting comment to a sentence you have written, but the comment is not directly related to the argument of your paragraph. They cite references or comment on a designated part of the text above it. 2 (April 1955)): 282.Īdair, "A Note on Certain of Hamilton's Pseudonyms," 295.Footnotes are notes placed at the bottom of a page. 2014.ĭouglas Adair, "A Note on Certain of Hamilton's Pseudonyms," ( The William and Mary Quarterly, Third series 12, no. "A Note on Certain of Hamilton's Pseudonyms." The William and Mary Quarterly, Guion, The Trombone: Its History and Music, 1697-1811 (New York: GordonĪdair, Douglas. New York:Īuthor in normal order, followed by comma publication information in parentheses, page of quotation at end. The Trombone: Its History and Music, 1697-1811. An abbreviated footnote contains the author's last name, a brief title, and the page number of the quotation.A complete footnote has the same information as the citation in the bibliography, with some differences in format, plus the page number of a particular quotation.If you don't include a bibliography, you must give a full citation for the first footnote from each work and abbreviated footnotes for subsequent citations.If you include a bibliography with complete citations of all the works you have used, you may use abbreviated footnotes throughout.
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