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shiznit
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Footnotes

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I can't seem to find out how I could footnote sections of the book, they only show page numbers and I think you need to do sections for books that use them.

Using MLA style because my prof hasn't specified what to acctually use.

So here is one example.

Morgan, Michael L., ed. Classics of Moral and Political Theory. 3rd ed. Indianapolis: Hackett Company, 2001. 20.

But I'm acctually using a ton of stuff from page 20, and it's all under different sections like 47b, 47c, 48, etc. Anyone know the correct way to add it to the footnote?

Would it be 20, 47c. or 20:47c.
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Re: Footnotes

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shiznit wrote:I can't seem to find out how I could footnote sections of the book, they only show page numbers and I think you need to do sections for books that use them.

Using MLA style because my prof hasn't specified what to acctually use.

So here is one example.

Morgan, Michael L., ed. Classics of Moral and Political Theory. 3rd ed. Indianapolis: Hackett Company, 2001. 20.

But I'm acctually using a ton of stuff from page 20, and it's all under different sections like 47b, 47c, 48, etc. Anyone know the correct way to add it to the footnote?

Would it be 20, 47c. or 20:47c.


I dont think there is a "correcT" way to add a footnote. I think it just needs to be consistent so if you use this

20:47c


make sure you use this for the rest of the paper
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Post by phantasmagoria »

are you using ms word?
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Post by shiznit »

Yes I am using Office 2003, well I just read over the material that I had and it doesn't specify but I think it's page:section. Since the bible is done this way, as far as I can tell.
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Post by [FTF]Pyro »

shiznit wrote:the bible



:shrug: wouldnt have a clue.
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Post by Dave »

You only have to use (Author #) for MLA and your bibliography example is wrong because you shouldn't use page numbers

Oh, it seems you do use page #s in mla.. that's retarded

http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/hacker/pdf/mla.pdf

for some examples
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Post by shiznit »

Yes you do use page # in MLA, it's not (Author #) but Ibid. if you using the same book over and over.
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Post by Dave »

eh? you're not doing MLA then if you're using ibid... you're doing Turabian/Chicago.

When I said you don't use page numbers, i meant for your "footnote"/bibliography page in MLA. The example paper i posted uses page numbers. I thought it was citing books, but it was citing magazine articles. So no, for a bibliography entry on a MLA paper you don't use page numbers if you're citing a book.

Your example is a bibliography entry, not a"footnote" if you're dong MLA

go here for some links info about putting your ass in the know

http://www.uiowa.edu/~histwrit/style_and_citation.htm
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Post by shiznit »

I guess I'm just used to Ibid because I had a TA that would enforce it. But it says here that Ibid can still be used.

http://www.aresearchguide.com/7footnot.html
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Post by Dave »

Well, whatever the case, you only use page numbers. In every page/link/example posted only pages are used.

But if you want some advice, use chicago manual of style with your source citiations in footnotes at the bottom of the page because it will make your paper shorter (especially if you cite a lot). Instructors make you use endnotes on purpose so you don't try do that, but if the guy didn't specify...
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Post by shiznit »

Alright thanks for the advice.
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Harvard referencing

Using parenthical references, or references in brackets, after the sentence in the format "(Author-Last-Name, Year)" is called Harvard referencing; for example (Smith, 2005).

Normally, you would use the original publication year for a re-published work. If the cited information is not easy to find with just that information — for example, if it is a poorly indexed topic in a large book — add the page numbers ("p. 15" or "pp. 12–23") after the year, separating the two with a comma; for example, (Smith, 2005, p. 15). However, if you add page numbers, use the year of publication that the page numbers refer to, which may not be the original year of publication.

When a reference is used as a noun, put the year in parentheses (brackets), for example "Smith (2005) says ..." For two authors, use (Smith & Jones, 2005); for more authors, use (Smith et al, 2005).

Note that Harvard referencing is not complete without the full citation at the end of the page in the References section. Full citations might need to distinguish between works by the same author published in the same year: for instance (Smith, 2005a) and (Smith, 2005b) should reflect separate entries in the references list.

A full citation in the References section for (Smith, 2005) would be:

* Smith, J. How to cite your sources, Random House, 2005. ISBN 1607000X

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External links

Main article: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (links)

Displaying a text

See Wikipedia:Cite sources/example style#Web sites and articles (not from periodicals). Of course, a Harvard style reference can be the displayed text for an external link, if the referenced work is available on-line.

Numbered

A URL surrounded by single square brackets displays as a clickable number between square brackets followed by an arrow, and leads to the webpage mentioned in the URL. For example, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cite_sources] renders as [1].

Although this type of external references can occasionally be useful, it gives no clear indication to the reader what can be expected before pointing to (and eventually clicking) the link, so, when using in-line links, an external link displaying a text is generally preferred.

Note that such automatically numbered external links are not compatible with most footnote systems.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: ... ur_sources
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