What is the proper format for footnoting?
General rules of footnoting format are: 1) Be consistent from footnote to footnote; 2) List the full bibliographic information in the first footnote dealing with a particular source or sources; 3) Indicate the specific page numbers used in the source(s) for each footnote. More specific rules are: 1) Put the author’s first name first followed by the surname; 2) Underline the complete titles of books along with the titles of newspapers, magazines and journals; 3) Put quotations marks around the titles of articles within books, magazines, newspapers and journals and entries within an encyclopedia. EXAMPLE OF FOOTNOTING FORMAT (a more comprehensive list can be found at http://library.exeter.edu/dept/citations/citation.html) The following is a list of the more common types of sources and the appropriate footnoting format. Book (1) John Morton Blum, Woodrow Wilson and the Politics of Morality (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1956), p. 73. Magazine Article (1) Harry Ashmore, “The Desegrega
