After a discussion yesterday about footnotes after class, I thought I'd make a little post since I just wrote a bajillion footnotes for my HIST 388 paper.
It goes something like this:
FirstName LastName, "Title," [usual bibliographical format], page numbers. That's the first time.
After that, you can use a shortened reference.
Lastname, "shortertitle," page numbers.
If you use the same work in two successive footnotes, the second time you can say,
Ibid., p. #s.
(Ibid is short for ibidem, meaning same place).
Examples:
Alan Trachtenberg, preface to Shades of Hiawatha: Staging Indians, Making Americans, 1880-1930, (New York, Hill and Wang, 2004), p. xxii.
Trachtenberg, Hiawatha, p. xxiii.
Ibid, p. xiv.
See Terabian p. 138 for more on this. Hopefully this helps people!
(I've been madly working since 1:30, *whew*)
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