Thesis footnotes and endnotes
Thesis footnotes and endnotes are two important parts of the thesis article and you should be aware of its purpose and uses. Thesis statement usually does not contain any footnotes.
Regarding footnotes one should keep in view the followings:
a) The footnotes serve two purposes viz. the identification of materials used in quotations in the report and the notice of materials not immediately necessary to the body of the research text but still of supplemental value. In other words, footnotes are meant for cross references, citation of authorities and sources, acknowledgement and elucidation or explanation of a point of view. It should always be kept in view that footnote is neither an end nor a means of the display of scholarship. The modern tendency is to make the minimum use of footnotes for scholarship does not need to be displayed.
b) These are placed at the bottom of the page on which the reference or quotation which they identify or supplement ends. These are customarily separated from the textual material by a space of half an inch and a line about one and a half inches long.
c) These should be numbered consecutively, usually beginning with 1 in each chapter separately. The number should be put slightly above the line, say at the end of a quotation. At the foot of the page, again, the footnote number should be indented and typed a little above the line. Thus, consecutive numbers must be used to correlate the reference in the text with its corresponding note at the bottom of the page, except may be in the case of statistical tables and other numerical material, where symbols such as the asterisk or the like one may be used to prevent confusion.
d) These are always typed in single space though they are divided from one another by double space.
e) The first item after the number in the footnote is the author’s name, given in the normal signature order. This is followed by a comma. After the comma, the title of the book is given: the article (such as ‘A’,’An’,’The’ etc.) is omitted and only the first word and proper nouns and adjectives are capitalized. The title is followed by a comma. Information concerning the edition is given next. This entry is followed by a comma.
f) The place of publication is then stated; it may be mentioned in an abbreviated form, if the place happens to be a famous one such as Lond. for London, N.Y. for New York and so on. This entry is followed by a comma. Then the name of the publisher is mentioned and this entry is closed by a comma. It is followed by the date of publication if the date is given on the title page. If the date appears in the copy right notice on the reverse side of the title page or else where in the volume, the comma should be omitted and the data enclosed in square brackets.
Thesis footnotes and endnotes offer large assistance in thesis referencing the sources. The literature review usually contains a lot of footnotes.
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