Mark items within the text of your paper with a superscripted number at the end of a word or phrase within the text you want to reference in a footnote.
Create a separate “Footnote” page to be placed at the end of your paper after the “References” page. Write “Footnotes” in the center at the top of the page right underneath the running head.
Click on the “Format” option on your word processing menu and select “Paragraph.” Set the paragraph spacing to “Double-Spaced” for information following the heading of the footnotes page.
Indent in five spaces for only the first line of every new footnote included on the page. Superscript the same number of the item located within the paper that is being referenced at the beginning of each footnote.
Include all information regarding copyright permissions for items that are referenced within the text, which is known as a copyright footnote. After the footnote number, write “Note” and then the title of the article or book, author, date, publication (if any) and page number. For example, write “'Title,’ by Jon Doe, 2011, One Publication, p. 22.” Follow the footnote with the copyright and permission information: “Copyright 2011 by Holder. Reprinted with permission.”
Include information for content footnotes, which is information used to back up and support in-text citations found within the paper, after the footnote number. A content footnote can be used to point the reader to where more information about the subject can be found. If the footnote refers to a publication, it should be formatted like the publication information for a copyright footnote. A content footnote can also offer facts about a subject that is not included within the paper.