Footnotes or Endnotes......
Hi All History students....
right im going to start undergrad History.... but have never used footnotes or end notes as they are sometimes called before??
I have read up about them, but the information does not seem all that clear...
At A-Level we only used the Harvard style of referencing... so for example if i directly quoted from a book that " 3 million people died a year during the slave trade" we were told to then cite the work with author, date of publication, and page number (Ponting. 2001. 93)
but i have been told we must use footnotes at uni??
what would a page of work look like with footnotes on it, i would really appareciate seeing one so i can get my head around what it looks like?
thanks...
right im going to start undergrad History.... but have never used footnotes or end notes as they are sometimes called before??
I have read up about them, but the information does not seem all that clear...
At A-Level we only used the Harvard style of referencing... so for example if i directly quoted from a book that " 3 million people died a year during the slave trade" we were told to then cite the work with author, date of publication, and page number (Ponting. 2001. 93)
but i have been told we must use footnotes at uni??
what would a page of work look like with footnotes on it, i would really appareciate seeing one so i can get my head around what it looks like?
thanks...
There is no easy way to show an example of footnotes on TSR, but if you go your local library and look to find the most academic book you can (usually the one with the most boring title), you will see it as a set of small text at the bottom of the page.
The number of variations on the Harvard method is bewildering, but your uni will explain what derivative they prefer. As an example, at my uni, we use the author and year in the body text, the author title and page number in the footnote, and then a full set of details in the bibliography. I personally use a software package called Endnote, which can be purchased with a hefty student discount (and no I do not work for them). This works within Word to provide you with perfect citations in body text, as well as footnotes and bibliography. It will automatically update if I move stuff around, and saves me the frustration of having to administer my footnotes manually.
If you need url’s for Endnote or software suppliers for students, please feel free to ask.
The number of variations on the Harvard method is bewildering, but your uni will explain what derivative they prefer. As an example, at my uni, we use the author and year in the body text, the author title and page number in the footnote, and then a full set of details in the bibliography. I personally use a software package called Endnote, which can be purchased with a hefty student discount (and no I do not work for them). This works within Word to provide you with perfect citations in body text, as well as footnotes and bibliography. It will automatically update if I move stuff around, and saves me the frustration of having to administer my footnotes manually.
If you need url’s for Endnote or software suppliers for students, please feel free to ask.
The example you give is more common in Social Science.
Most Arts subjects use the Footnote version. Each Uni will have its own policy on this and you must conform to the required method.
I personally find the Soc Sci version MUCH easier but I am now doing post-grad in a Dept that requires MHRA style Footnotes. As mentioned above, there is software that can help you do references/citations in all the different formats -Zotero and Endnote are the most commonly used - and its worth getting your head around one of these early on as it does make writing (and storing lists of what you've read) SO much easier. I have downloaded a 'standalone' version of Zotero for free. Your Uni may have an 'online' version of one of these (and provide a teaching session to show you how to use it) so check with your Computer Centre/IT Support.
Most Arts subjects use the Footnote version. Each Uni will have its own policy on this and you must conform to the required method.
I personally find the Soc Sci version MUCH easier but I am now doing post-grad in a Dept that requires MHRA style Footnotes. As mentioned above, there is software that can help you do references/citations in all the different formats -Zotero and Endnote are the most commonly used - and its worth getting your head around one of these early on as it does make writing (and storing lists of what you've read) SO much easier. I have downloaded a 'standalone' version of Zotero for free. Your Uni may have an 'online' version of one of these (and provide a teaching session to show you how to use it) so check with your Computer Centre/IT Support.
I've attached one of my law essays, which shows how footnotes generally work (We use OSCOLA, so the actual referencing technique will be different).
Endnotes are the same, except they show up at the end of the document, rather than the bottom of the page. Imo, endnotes are more useful for long documents with multiple chapters. You don't really need specialist software to do foot notes, microsoft word makes it easy - just click the footnote button, and type in the reference.
Endnotes are the same, except they show up at the end of the document, rather than the bottom of the page. Imo, endnotes are more useful for long documents with multiple chapters. You don't really need specialist software to do foot notes, microsoft word makes it easy - just click the footnote button, and type in the reference.
Original post by returnmigrant
The example you give is more common in Social Science.
Most Arts subjects use the Footnote version. Each Uni will have its own policy on this and you must conform to the required method.
I personally find the Soc Sci version MUCH easier but I am now doing post-grad in a Dept that requires MHRA style Footnotes. As mentioned above, there is software that can help you do references/citations in all the different formats -Zotero and Endnote are the most commonly used - and its worth getting your head around one of these early on as it does make writing (and storing lists of what you've read) SO much easier. I have downloaded a 'standalone' version of Zotero for free. Your Uni may have an 'online' version of one of these (and provide a teaching session to show you how to use it) so check with your Computer Centre/IT Support.
Most Arts subjects use the Footnote version. Each Uni will have its own policy on this and you must conform to the required method.
I personally find the Soc Sci version MUCH easier but I am now doing post-grad in a Dept that requires MHRA style Footnotes. As mentioned above, there is software that can help you do references/citations in all the different formats -Zotero and Endnote are the most commonly used - and its worth getting your head around one of these early on as it does make writing (and storing lists of what you've read) SO much easier. I have downloaded a 'standalone' version of Zotero for free. Your Uni may have an 'online' version of one of these (and provide a teaching session to show you how to use it) so check with your Computer Centre/IT Support.
+Rep for this post. Completely correct: each Uni (and often, most departments within it) will have different referencing requirements that they'll outline to you in some form of handbook in your first week or so.
I use Endnote for my essays and it is an absolute godsend if you programme it to output the style your Uni uses. I couldn't be without it now!
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