I need help with a research paper using FOOTNOTES?

Question

Okay- I have to write a research paper for my Liberal Arts class. I'm in college...not that that matters, but my teacher wants me to use footnotes in my paper. I've never used footnotes in my life. I've tried everything-googling, asking someone else-and I have not a clue where to start. Can anyone help me? I will supply a paragraph of my paper if you can show me how to do footnotes. This paper is due Thursday!

THANK YOU!

Here is part of a paragraph:

Within these states, Arkansas had the toughest beating, with 14% of their land engulfed in water (American Autochrome Co pg 5). More than 200,000 homeless residents were stationed in Refugee camps along the Mississippi (American Autochrome co. reword pg 20). The damage of the flood totaled to $400,000,000 and because of this, several people were not capable of making a profit from their crops. This lead thousands of people into a desperate financial state. (Mississippi River Flood Control). So what impact does a disaster of this magnitude have on un inhabited farm land? While much of the loss is on livestock, humans and houses, farm land was also significantly affected.



Barry, J. M., 1997. Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America. New York: Simon and Schuster.

The Losses and Damages Resulting from the Flood of 1927. The Mississippi River Flood Control Association. Memphis Tennessee. M.C. F. 354. M67

Mississippi Floods-1927. American Autochrome Company. 300 West Grand Avenue. Chicago, Illinois. M.C. F. 354. M5

The 1927 Great Mississippi Flood: 80 Year Retrospective. Risk Management Solutions, Inc. 2007.

Answer 1

Ok so first open microsoft word. Then Click after the sentence you want to site. then click the INSERT tab, then click on reference. Then it will give you the choice of footnote. the way to use it is you just keep going after the sentence you need to site, and you just keep clicking insert refence. it will automatically number everytime u use it. You can also turn off continuous so it won't automatically number it, it will just keep starting over. If i were you, i would also type it into the "help" feature of microsoft word.



Oh... one thing i forgot. when you click insert, it will put the footnote at the bottom of the page. then u just type source then # (Source 5). I am assuming you have to number your sources in your bibliography?





ok so yeah.... good luck.... hope it helped. and dont forget the help feature in MS word...(its a tab up at the top...near insert)

Answer 2

There are two things never to forget: (1) use footnotes when you quote directly from a source (2) use reference indicators when you generalize from a source. Then, the bibliography contains both a Footnotes section (labeled 1...n) and a References section (listing all of the sources that you either read or used in the paper). Footnotes are basically used when you "lift" words or sentences directly from a source. Reference indicators are used when you "summarize" from a source. Example of footnote: According to George Basking in the late 1990's , "...the basket was in the tree."1 Example of Reference Indicator: I realized he said that the basket was found somewhere (Basking, G., 1998) The definitive book on all of these subjects is The University of Chicago Manual of Style. [The Manual of Style is used extensively in the USA and abroad. Not just in the midwest.] Or, the formatting technique used in the American Journal of Sociology, among others.

Answer 3

foot notes are a place to put in your references (move what you have in parenthesis to your footnotes), or places to put in side comments which explain the text or facts without breaking up the text. In word, highlight what you want to go into a footnote, then hit cut. Next hit CTL ALT F and it will create a pre-numbered footnote. Go into the footnote and where you would start the text hit paste and there you have it.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Google "footnote formatting", there are several guides available on-line. Or, ask your instructor what format to use for footnotes.