footnote
(noun)
A short piece of text, often numbered, placed at the bottom of a printed page, that adds a comment, citation, reference, etc., to a designated part of the main text.
(noun)
A short piece of text, often numbered, placed at the bottom of a printed page to add a comment, citation, or reference to a designated part of the main text.
(noun)
A note at the bottom of the page, corresponding to a number in a text, which gives the reader citation information.
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- Different source types require different citation information when being cited in footnotes.
- Footnotes are the preferred citation method for the Chicago/Turabian Notes and Bibliography citation style.
- When using footnotes, you create what is essentially a "mini-citation" at the bottom of the page.
- These footnotes guide the reader to the corresponding entry in your bibliography.
- List the ways to cite different source types in Chicago/Turabian footnotes
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- Karen Ehrhardt-Martinez, works for the NGO American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE): http://www.asanet.org/footnotes/feb08/fn6.html
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- In Chicago/Turabian Notes and Bibliography style, use footnotes or endnotes for citing sources in text.
- One method for doing this is creating a footnote.
- An endnote is exactly like a footnote, except that endnotes appear all together at the end of the paper, while each footnote appears on the bottom of the same page as its superscripted number.
- There are two steps to creating a footnote.
- The first step to creating a footnote is place a number next to the statement that needs to be sourced.
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- While the balance sheet may combine all cash and cash equivalents into one number, a business can provide further detail about its cash balance in the footnotes to the financial statements.
- With regards to cash, the footnotes can explain how much of the cash balance was composed of actual currency and how much was cash equivalents.
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- In-text citations come in two forms: the parenthetical, and the footnote (or endnote).
- Footnotes include a number at the end of the sentence that directs the reader to the appropriate note at the bottom of the page.
- Endnotes are exactly like footnotes, except the notes are at the end of the paper rather than at the bottom of the page.
- Footnotes and endnotes can be used both to cite a source or to provide additional information or context about a word or concept in your text.