Citing Sources Guide

A note consists of two parts:

• A superscripted note number (¹) in the text, placed at the end of a sentence or clause
• A note (containing the citation)goes at the bottom of the page (footnote) or the end of the paper (endnote)
• A note lists the author, title, and publication facts. Commas separate elements; enclose the publication facts in parentheses
• A footnote appears at the foot of a page
• The first line is indented; subsequent lines flush left

Microsoft Word, Pages, and Google Docs have formatting tools to add superscripts and footnotes

Example of a superscript

The number given to the note corresponds with the number of the superscript. The superscript goes after the punctuation

Wrigley Field is a baseball park located in Chicago.¹

Example of what a note looks like:

           1. Stuart Shea, Wrigley Field: The Long Life and Contentious Times of the Friendly Confines (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014), 51–52.

When the same bibliographic information is repeated, use a shortened note

           2. Shea, Wrigley Field, 138.

Rules for Notes

• List in order: author, title, and facts of publication
• Separate each element with commas
• Authors' names are written First Name Last Name
• Titles are capitalized
• Books/Journal Titles are capitalized in italics
• Article/Chapter Titles are capitalized and placed in quotation marks
• Publication information is contained in parentheses
• Use the following abbreviations:
  • editor/edited by (ed.)
  •  translator/translated by (trans.)
  • volume (vol.)
  • edition (ed.)
• First-line indented; subsequent lines flush left