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[hipsta_jess]

ok, one of my new schools this semester requires that we use footnotes (chicago style) in our work.
i get how to do footnotes in word and stuff...but what is meant to go in a footnote?
any help would be great, thanks!

 

[sunny]

Footnotes allow you to reference work from that page. So for example, if you cited a sentence from another piece of work, you can end that citation with a superscript 1. And in the footnote, have a 1, and place the reference to the work there.

 

[hipsta_jess]

but then the footnotes ive seen have had more than just a bibliographical reference, theyve also had like additional information or something thrown in there..

 

[sunny]

I've done this myself too to explain some things in the text, or to clarify something in a citation, though I don't think it is proper Chicago style to have anything other than references.

http://matcmadison.edu/is/writingcenter/sources/turbian.htm

 

[hipsta_jess]

ok thanks a lot!!

 

[Heinz]

Just some additional info which could be useful. If you have a footnote and then in the very next footnote refer to the same source, you can use "ibid" plus the relevant page numbers (ibidem = in the same place) instead of typing the exact reference up again.

Theres also op. cit. (opus citatum = the work cited) which is used for a footnote thats already been cited but isnt immediately prior to it. E.g. A footnote could be:
Harrison, E.R Cosmology – The Science of the Universe: Cambridge University Press , 1981
“The Anthropometric Universe” – Cosmology and Society, pg 18
And a few references later, you can just simply write "Harrison, op. cit., 20-22"

 

[enak]

to get footnotes in word, press control + alt + f

 

[sunny]

What is the chicago one? Ive only heard of harvard and oxford.

See link above