Creating Footnotes or Endnotes

Footnotes are used to provide additional information that is inappropriate for the body of the text, and to document your references for information or quotes presented in the body of the document. Footnotes are appropriate for academic, scientific, and, occasionally, business purposes. Footnotes appear at the bottom of the page on which the information is cited, and Word automatically inserts a reference mark at the insertion point to associate the information presented with the note at the bottom of the page. Creating and manipulating endnotes is identical to performing the same functions for footnotes. Endnotes differ from footnotes in that they appear at the end of the document or section (in the case of longer documents), not the bottom of the page on which the reference mark appears.

Create a Footnote or Endnote

Position the insertion point where you want to insert a footnote.

Click the Insert menu _' point to Reference _' and then click Footnote.

Click the Footnotes option or the Endnotes option.

Click the list arrow next to the Footnotes or Endnotes option, and then select the location where you want to place the footnote or endnote.

Verify that the Number Format option of 1,2,3 is selected.

Click Insert to insert a reference mark in the text. Word moves the insertion point to the bottom of the page corresponding to the number of the reference mark.

Type the text of your footnote or endnote. _n

Click inside the body of the document to reposition the insertion point at the desired location to continue with your work.

Click Close.