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Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :

I'm writing a term paper and as its a history class I have to us Turabian, (I was raised using MLA). I understand how the footnotes and bibliography are supposed to look but how do I tag the text the footnote is supposed to reference? I do very well when I am visually shown something that demonstrates the direction I should be going in, but Adobe Acrobat hates me an all the examples are pdf files.

Any help you folks could render me would be greatly appreciated.

edit: Also how do I create footnotes in Microsoft Word?

[ November 27, 2006, 06:16 PM: Message edited by: BlackBlade ]

Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :

Simple. Step one: Delete Word. Step two: Install LaTex. Step three: Profit!

Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :

And now for some slightly more helpful advice:

In Word, click Insert, then Reference, then Footnote. That will insert a footnote (automatically numbered) wherever your cursor is in the text.

Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :

Megan: Your advice is certainly more helpful in the short term, thank you so much!

KOM: Once I am done with this paper I might actually check it out, I looked up LaTex and it looks pretty slick.

Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :

I'm convinced Turabian purposely made her book confusing.

I had to buy it, which is basically a modified Chicago style, for an advanced history class I took last year. It wasn't fun, I was raised on MLA too.

Posted by Will B (Member # 7931) on :

LaTex is especially great for computer science types. With it, not only can your program crash -- your paper can crash as well!

Posted by Amilia (Member # 8912) on :

BB: Word will format your note numbers correctly (arabic numerals, superscript) following the directions Megan gave you.

The following are quotes from my Turabian book concerning placement of note numbers. (I am assuming you do not have access to an actual book and are trying to figure it out using those incomplete style guides available on the internet.) (Also . . . I swear I used to be able to get the full text of Turabian on Google book search. Either my googlefu is weak tonight or they have taken it off.)

quote:
The note reference follows any punctuation mark except a dash, which it preceeds, and goes outside closing parenthesis. . . .

The note reference should follow the passage it refers to. If the passage is an exact quotation, the note number comes at the end of it, not after the author's name or at the end of the textual matter introducing the quotation. If possible, a note number should come at the end of a sentence, or at lest at the end of a clause. . . .

Double numbers (such as [superscript]1,2) may not be used except in scientific fields where this practice is acceptable.

I'd be willing to email you papers I've written that are formatted a la Turabian if you would like examples of what they are suposed to look like. However, all of my papers are written in WordPerfect, which does not always speak to Word as well as one could like. And it is usually the formatting things that get messed up. I usually convert to PDF if I am sending to someone who only has Word, but it doesn't sound like that would do you any good.

Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Will B:
LaTex is especially great for computer science types. With it, not only can your program crash -- your paper can crash as well!

Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :

Thanks for the offer Amilia but I think between you and Megan I should be set, thanks alot.