[bksvol-discuss] Re: What I understand about footnotes
- From: Debby Franson <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 09:42:11 -0500
Hi everyone!
When there was the comment about superscripting a footnote, was that
referring to the number of the footnote in the text as well as the number
of the footnote itself?
In "Upgrade Your Life" that I am scanning, (rather leisurely now, I must
admit), there are occasional numbers at the end of paragraphs that apply to
notes that are all gathered for that chapter and put in to the Reference
section for the given chapter.
In "Expository Notes on the Gospel of Mark" that I am proofing, there is an
asterisk at the end of a paragraph with no number, then after a space to
separate the footnote from the main text, there is an asterisk to start the
footnote. Should the asterisks, both in the main text and the footnote be
superscripted?
Debby
At 10:00 PM 5/12/2010, Kim Friedman wrote
Hi, I believe the type of book may use different footnote styles: for
example, if you were footnoting an anthropology or social science book,
you'd see an opening parenthesis after the relevant sentence, followed by
the author's last name, colon, year of the publication, and pages cited
followed by a closing parenthesis. (I'm unsure of whether the whole book
title goes within the parentheses or not. As for literary footnoting,
here's what I've seen in Braille: (note: I may be completely wrong about
the manner of literary footnoting today), Say I'm reading a paragraph and
I wish to footnote something. After the word or phrase, I'd see an
asterisk followed immediately by a number. Either at the end of the book
or at the bottom of the page, you'd write the asterisk, followed by the
footnote number, after which you'd see either an explanation or a
citation. The citation style would consist of the author's last name, the
name of the work, page number. If you had another footnote from the same
work, you'd write either Ibid. or Op. cit. followed by the page number. I
think both these words come from Latin and the last one op. cit. is Latin
for "work cited" or something like that. Please, you guys, if I'm
incorrect, do write something about footnoting so Valerie won't get lousy
information from me. You may know more about MLA style than I do. Regards,
Kim Friedman.
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