Formatting notes - Notes-bibliography style: the basic form - Part II. Source Citation

A manual for writers of research papers, theses, and dissertations, 7th edition - Kate L. Turabian 2007

Formatting notes
Notes-bibliography style: the basic form
Part II. Source Citation

Indent both footnotes and endnotes as you would a paragraph. Begin each note with its reference number, preferably printed not as a superscript but as regular text. Put a period and a space between the number and the text of the note.

If your local guidelines allow it, you may instead use superscripts for reference numbers in notes. You should then begin the text of each note without an intervening period and space. Use this method for notes labeled with symbols (see 16.3.3).

FOOTNOTES. Begin every footnote on the page on which you reference it. Put a short rule between the last line of text and the first footnote on each page, including any notes that run over from previous pages, even if your word processor doesn't do so automatically. If a footnote runs over to the next page, break it in midsentence, so that readers do not think the note is finished and overlook the part on the next page. If you have more than one footnote on a page, begin each subsequent note on its own line, with a blank line before it. See figure A.10 for a sample page of text with footnotes.

ENDNOTES. Endnotes should be listed together after the end of the text and any appendixes but before the bibliography. Start each note on a new line, with a blank line between notes. Label the list Notes. If you restart numbering for each chapter, add subheadings to distinguish the notes for each chapter: “Chapter 1” and so forth. See figure A.14 for a sample page of endnotes.