Instructions for adding footnotes in a Word Document. 1. After completing the sentence you want to footnote, keep the cursor blinking after the period, and click the References tab at the top of the Microsoft Word window. 2. Click on Insert Footnote located in the menu bar at the top of the page. Microsoft Word will automatically insert the footnote number at the end of your sentence and jump down to the end of the page for you to type in the information for your footnote. 3. The first time you reference the book your footnote should be formatted as follows: AuthorFirstName AuthorLastName, Title of the Book (City of Publication: Publishing Company, Year of Publication), Page # being referenced. The publishing info can be found in the first couple of pages of your book. 4. Every other time you reference the book your footnote should be formatted as follows: AuthorLastName, Page# being referenced. 5. If you are citing something other than the book assigned for reading then go to http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html for information about how to cite the source. 6. After you finish your footnote at the bottom of the page, move your cursor back up page where you left off and continue typing. 7. If you are adding footnotes after youve typed up your essay, just place your cursor at the end of the sentence where you want to add the footnote. Then click on the References tab. 8. If you need to go back to the original toolbar in Microsoft Word then click the Home tab at the top of the window. 9. Footnoting oral histories: IntervieweeName, interviewed by InterviewerName, ProjectName, ProjectLocation, InterviewDate. Ex: Calixto Cabrera, interviewed by Richard B. Veronne, PhD, The Vietnam Center and Archive at Texas Tech University, July 6, 2006. 10. Every other time you reference the same oral history your footnote should read: IntervieweeLastName interview, InterviewYear. Ex: Cabrera interview, 2006. 11. For other primary sources, most libraries will tell you how they want their sources cited. For example, if you are getting documents from the Texas Tech website you can click on the More Information tab for the document you are looking at and it will give you all the information needed. See the image below. For each document there are 3 tabs: Summary, More Information, and Record Linking.

Instructions for adding footnotes in a Word Document. 1. After completing the sentence you want to footnote, keep the cursor blinking after the period, and click the References tab at the top of the Microsoft Word window. 2. Click on Insert Footnote located in the menu bar at the top of the page. Microsoft Word will automatically insert the footnote number at the end of your sentence and jump down to the end of the page for you to type in the information for your footnote. 3. The first time you reference the book your footnote should be formatted as follows: AuthorFirstName AuthorLastName, Title of the Book (City of Publication: Publishing Company, Year of Publication), Page # being referenced. The publishing info can be found in the first couple of pages of your book. 4. Every other time you reference the book your footnote should be formatted as follows: AuthorLastName, Page# being referenced. 5. If you are citing something other than the book assigned for reading then go to http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html for information about how to cite the source. 6. After you finish your footnote at the bottom of the page, move your cursor back up page where you left off and continue typing. 7. If you are adding footnotes after youve typed up your essay, just place your cursor at the end of the sentence where you want to add the footnote. Then click on the References tab. 8. If you need to go back to the original toolbar in Microsoft Word then click the Home tab at the top of the window. 9. Footnoting oral histories: IntervieweeName, interviewed by InterviewerName, ProjectName, ProjectLocation, InterviewDate. Ex: Calixto Cabrera, interviewed by Richard B. Veronne, PhD, The Vietnam Center and Archive at Texas Tech University, July 6, 2006. 10. Every other time you reference the same oral history your footnote should read: IntervieweeLastName interview, InterviewYear. Ex: Cabrera interview, 2006. 11. For other primary sources, most libraries will tell you how they want their sources cited. For example, if you are getting documents from the Texas Tech website you can click on the More Information tab for the document you are looking at and it will give you all the information needed. See the image below. For each document there are 3 tabs: Summary, More Information, and Record Linking.