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Footnote is the footnote with an explanation written at the bottom of every page. This type of annotation is very common and is useful in providing and citing information. Often the editor will suggest footnotes for the information to help keep the text of the article and contribute to clarify the intent of the writer. Carefully used footnotes will serve as a complementary, useful explanation of the content, and also a way to quickly cite.

Steps

Method 1 of 2: Quote with footnotes

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   Cite source before commenting. The footer is usually an abridged copy of a citation found in the end-of-article or end-of-book reference. Annotation is usually written last after the body has been completed. Therefore, write the entire content, including the references, and then fill in the footer.

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   Place the caption at the end of the sentence. In Microsoft Word, you can open References, click on the Footnotes group and choose "Insert Footnote". The number "1" will appear at the end of the sentence, and this "1" will also appear in the footer. In the footer, add the information you want.
   • The cursor needs to be at the end, after the punctuation. The comment number is outside the sentence, not in the sentence.
   • Look in the help menu for ways to add comments before you can start highlighting them if you don't know which item is used to insert footnotes.

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   Quotations or references. In case you are using footnotes instead of quotes in brackets, the footer should include the name of the author or editor, title (italic), editor, translator or editor, edition, name of the series (including volume or number), place of publication, publisher, date of publication, and page with excerpt.
   • Reginald Daily, Timeless wikiHow Examples: Through the Ages (Minneapolis: St. Olaf Press, 2010), 115.

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   Source online. Information you need when annotating a web page includes: author or editor, page title (italic), path and date of the extraction.
   • For example: Reginald Daily, Timeless wikiHow Examples, http: //www.timelesswikihowexamples.html (accessed July 22, 2011).

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   Continue adding footnotes in articles or articles. Go to the passages you cited and repeat this process. Use the shortened form of the reference source for comments with the same source later. You need to know the name of the author or editor, the brief title (italic), and the number cited.
   • Whichever style you're using, using footnotes doesn't mean you can skip the citation list in your article or work, even if it's unnecessary. Have a page titled "Citation" if you write in the Modern Language Association (MLA) Format, or the APA Style Reference (The American Psychological Association) section. American Psychology)
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Method 2 of 2: Clarify information through footnotes

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   Add footnotes to clarify the source of the citation for readers. Instead of using the publication information about the origin of the footnote, authors often note "relevant" information in the footnote, often from sources that are not directly cited. In his novel "Infinite Jest" (roughly translated as Infinite), David Foster Wallace wrote several page-long captions as a sarcasm. With scholarly articles, you need to limit the use of footnotes like that, but this is quite common in writing memoirs as well as in real literary works.
   • In scientific papers, footnotes often point to other studies that have the same conclusions but do not directly cite them.

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   Write brief. If one of your posts mentions wikiHow articles and you want to make it clear, then after the numbering section your footnotes might look like this: "WikiHow examples were used to do Clear context in situations where it is necessary to use a visual example Reginald Daily, Timeless wikiHow Examples: Through the Ages (Minneapolis: St. Olaf Press, 2010), 115. "

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   Don't use footnotes in a rampant way. Long-winded footnotes often distract the reader, disrupting the flow of text. If you find you need to annotate too much information, try to include that information in the body of the article, or review the original citation to shorten it.
   • In specialized articles, editors will often suggest you create footnotes with information in parentheses. So pay attention to the writing sequence and circuit and consider whether to put any information in the legend or not.

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   Review to see if the footer is reasonable. Before using footnotes as a reference, check with your editor or instructor again about citing footnotes. Often the MLA or APA guidelines will instruct you to use the quotes in brackets to cite the source instead of using footnotes; in contrast, footnotes are used to provide additional information or to cite other sources for similar information. Footnotes are used only when needed
   • In Chicago style footnotes are more common and are used instead of quotes.
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Advice

• Before writing, ask your professor or administrator if you should write APA, MLA or Chicago style. Then remember to write so that your posts and footnotes follow the chosen style guidelines.