Remember to introduce the author of each quotation.

When you are finished typing the footnote or endnote, click Close.

Type the note in the footnote or endnote pane.

Place the cursor where you would like to insert the footnote or endnote.

To insert a footnote or an endnote in Microsoft Word, use the following steps: They should not be surrounded by brackets or punctuation of any kind thus: 'and with a final charge at the Union cavalry, Stuart's Brigade carried the day.' 14 Numbers should run consecutively through the whole paper. In the text of the paper, a note number is inserted at the end of a sentence, one half-space above the line of text (this is called a superscript). Some instructors may prefer to have the publisher listed as well. Follow the formats below for citing your sources in notes.

In general, historians are interested in the date and place of publication of a source, which may indicate bias.

In the discipline of history, the 'classic' version of footnote (or endnote - either one is a 'note') remains standard.

Endnote definition