Business History research paper

Notes: Notes are either footnotes (at the bottom of your page) or endnotes (at the end of your paper but in front of the bibliography). They are numbered sequentially as they appear in your paper; the numbers are not tied to specific sources, so you shouldn't repeat any numbers. Notice that the first name comes first and the first line is indented. The page numbers are for the specific reference you used within the source.

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Greene, Ann Norton. Horses at Work. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008.

Bib: This comes at the end of your paper. The bib lists each of your sources alphabetically (using the title if there is no author). Notice that the last name comes first and all but the first line is indented. With books, you generally don't include page numbers in the bib (an exception is if you end up with a book in which every chapter is written by a different person). However, with articles, you include page numbers--all of them (first to last page of the article, not just the specific pages you used).

2. Insert notes:

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The Chicago Manual of Style Online

• place the cursor in the text where you want to insert a note • Insert menu: Footnote... • in the box, choose endnote or footnote (you can change later) • if you need to change the numbers from i, ii, iii to 1, 2, 3, click the Options button and use the pulldown menu. • if you want to switch from all footnotes to endnotes, use the Insert Footnote box again, pick Options, and then the Convert button. • if you use endnotes, pick Options, choose the Endnote tab at the top of the box, and where it says Place At-- choose End of Section (rather than End of Document) on the pulldown menu. (The reason for this is explained in #4 below.)

3. Format notes and bibliography (after you've got them in place) • footnotes/endnotes

You need to indent the first line of every note. i. open the note window (from draft view, double-click on any

footnote number), and put your cursor in the note window somewhere. ii. from the Edit menu up top, choose Select All iii. from the Format menu up top, choose Paragraph iv. in the paragraph formatting box, look in the Indentation section

near the top, and go to the Special pull-down menu and choose First Line.

bibliography These are easier, and you may already know

how to do them. The bib format is opposite the note format: that is, the first line is flush with the left margin, but everything else is indented. Highlight your bibliography, and put your blue margin/indent markers like this.

••Each note and bibliographic citation should be single-spaced; double-space between bibliographic citations, however (notes can be single-spaced between; that's the default in MS Word).

4. Endnotes & Bibliography: bib goes last

If you use endnotes, MS Word will automatically put them (surprise!) at the end of the document. This is fine, except that you want the bibliography to be the last thing in your document, not the endnotes. The solution is to make your bibliography into a separate "section."

Put your cursor at the beginning of your bibliography, and from the Insert menu, choose Insert Break, and then Section Break (Next Page).

If you didn't do this earlier, go back to the Insert Footnote box, choose Options, choose the Endnote tab at the top of the box, and where it says Place At-- choose End of Section on the pulldown menu, rather than End of Document.

5. Page numbers

a) not on the first page In general, the first page of your paper does not have a page number if

you put them in the upper right, which is where they are easiest to see. When inserting the page number (Insert on the menu bar), click off the box that says Show Number on First Page. You can do it the same way

even if you've already inserted the page numbers.

b) title page For many assignments (including mine), you may not need a title

page. If you use one, however, you don't want a page number on it.

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One option is to open the Insert page number box, choose the Format button, and choose to Start at page 0. This means the first page of text will be numbered page 1. The problem with this solution is that you then can't avoid showing the page number on your first page of text (because you've used up your unchecked box for Show Number on First Page on the title page).

The better option is to make the title page a separate section, as described above under 4. Endnotes & Bibliography. After you've done that, put your cursor into your main text section somewhere, go to the Insert Page Number box, choose Format, and tell it i) you don't want to number continuously from the last section, ii) you want to start at 1, and iii) don't show page number on the first page.