Affix Footnote Form For Free

In your text, click on where you want to reference the footnote. The footnote number should be placed after the punctuation, except for dashes and parentheses, where it should be placed before the dash and before the ending parenthesis. At the top of the page, click on the References tab, then click on Insert Footnote.

Footnotes (sometimes just called 'notes') are what they sound like?a note (or a reference to a source of information) which appears at the foot (bottom) of a page. In a footnote referencing system, you indicate a reference by: Putting a small number above the line of type directly following the source material.

In a footnote referencing system, you indicate a reference by: Putting a small number above the line of type directly following the source material. This number is called a note identifier. It sits slightly above the line of text.

Footnotes appear at the bottom, or foot, of the page. They begin two double spaces below the text. Footnotes are single spaced, but you must double space between them. If a note continues on the next page, add a solid line across that page two spaces below the text and continue the note two spaces below the line.

Insert footnotes and endnotes Click where you want to reference to the footnote or endnote. On the References tab, select Insert Footnote or Insert Endnote. Enter what you want in the footnote or endnote. Return to your place in the document by double-clicking the number or symbol at the beginning of the note.

To insert a footnote automatically in a Word document: Click on the point in the text where the footnote should appear. Select the ?References? tab at the top and then click on ?Insert Footnote? Type the text you want into the footnote that appears at the bottom of the page.

Footnote or endnote numbers in the text should follow punctuation, and preferably be placed at the end of a sentence. When citing the source for a quotation, the number should be placed at the end of the quotation and not after the author's name if that appears first in the text.