Footnotes vs.

Endnotes
Both footnotes and endnotes incorporate consecutively numbered Arabic numerals in superscript to refer to your citations. The citations for footnotes are documented at the bottom of each page while endnotes are listed at the end of your work. An additional bibliography may also be required for both depending upon your professor. MS WORD 7 and higher will automatically create footnotes and endnotes for you. To create footnotes, click the REFERENCES tab and then Insert Footnote after the final punctuation mark of the quotation or paraphrase you wish to cite. MS WORD will then position you to type the full citation at the bottom of the page linked to that numerical footnote.

The default number may be Roman instead of Arabic. To change it click on the bottom ribbon of the Footnotes section to see the dialog box. Similarly, to create endnotes, click Insert Endnote and MS WORD will position the citations at the end of your document. Title this page Notes. As you introduce citations, if you find that some of them immediately repeat one another, you can use a shortened form of the full citation style. You can either shorten to the authors last name, a shortened form of the title, and page number or, if the authors name is included within the text, use Ibid., page# rather than rewriting the entire citation. Ibid is the shortened form of latin ibidem meaning in the same place. 1 Sylvan Barnet in A Short Guide to Writing about Art lists the following rules for composing your Notes page: Indent five spaces. Type the Arabic number and a period. Skip one space and type the footnote, double-spacing it, beginning with a capital letter and putting a period at the end. If the note runs more than one line, begin subsequent lines at the left margin. Begin each new note with the indentation of five spaces. Double Space in between footnotes.2

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Sylvan Barnet, A Short Guide to Writing About Art (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2008), 340. Ibid., 335.