ENDNOTE FORMATTING (from Kate Turabian/Chicago Manual of Style)
This document examines and explains the use and creation of endnotes. By definition, endnotes are citations that appear at the end of a term paper or book. Most of the time, endnotes simply acknowledge the authorship of an idea. For this paper, there are two types of endnotes. Use the long-format citation (see below) the very first time you cite a specific idea from that source. Citing a source a second or subsequent time means you will be using the short-format citation: the author’s last name, an abbreviated source title, and the page number. If you have more to say from the same source and the same page as the endnote that immediately precedes it, you will use Ibid. But when you switch to another place (page) in the same source, you will go back to the short-format citation.
Word processing programs on a computer differ in the procedures for inserting an endnote. With Word 2007, you go to the toolbar and look for the ‘References” tab. Click “References,” then click “Insert Endnote.” When you do this, a small number or letter that’s positioned slightly above a line of font will appear. This superscript appears in two places: at the very end of your paper (where endnotes will appear) and in the body of the paper (where it indicates the end of an idea.) In any event, as soon as you click “Insert Endnote,” the cursor will jump to the end of your paper. Immediately following the superscript in the endnotes section, type the relevant identifying information in your endnote. When you are done doing this, put the cursor right over the superscript in the endnotes section, double click, and the cursor will be returned to the place in your paper where you created that particular note. You will continue writing, repeating the process again whenever you need to add another notation.
Here’s how endnotes will look for the term paper about the book, Savages and Beasts: the Birth of the Modern Zoo, by Nigel Rothfels. The first is the long-format citation.[endnoteRef:1] A second citation is the short-format citation.[endnoteRef:2] Since the third citation is from the same place in the same source as the one immediately preceding (here, the second note), you will write Ibid.[endnoteRef:3] The fourth notation for Savages and Beasts is in another part of that book.[endnoteRef:4] [1: Nigel Rothfels, Savages and Beasts: the Birth of the Modern Zoo (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 2012), 98.
] [2: Rothfels, Savages and Beasts, 105.
] [3: Ibid.
] [4: Rothfels, Savages and Beasts, 110.
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