FOOTNOTES, ENDNOTES &

CITATIONS
The Step by Step Instructions
Tunisia Tucker, Ruth Mulvey
Advanced Office Technologies
Sandy Weber, Instructor
Saturday, March 16, 2019
THE PURPOSE OF THIS PRESENTATION…
 To create lively reports by inserting different
footnotes, endnotes and citations from different
sources.
 To help the audience understand where these
sources come from.
 To make quick references on what you find to
share with the audience.
HOW TO INSERT A FOOTNOTE
HOW TO INSERT A FOOTNOTE
 A footnote can appear at the end of the page.
 First you open a MS Word document and choose
your favorite report to your footnotes, endnotes,
and citations.
 Click on the tab “References” on the Office
ribbon, you’ll see the insert options, “Footnotes”
and “Citations & Bibliography”.
 Once you click on “Insert Footnote, on the
bottom, you will see a number on the bottom of
the page. Type up whatever you want to put
there.
HOW TO INSERT A ENDNOTE
 A “endnote” can appear at the end of a
document.
 Click on the “References” Tab on the ribbon,
you’ll see “Footnotes” click on the small arrow.
 Click on the “Endnote” option. You can choose
any format you want for your report, either a
number, a roman numeral, letter or any symbol.
HOW TO INSERT A CITATION
HOW TO INSERT A CITATION
 A citation is a reference to a specific legal case,
statute, or other legal document.
 Click on the “Insert Citation” button, you get
three options: Add New Source, Add New
Placeholder, Search Libraries
 You can create any source you can find, a source
can be a book, magazine, newspaper, journal,
email, article, Web page or site, anything.
 You can fill out any information needed, author,
title, year, name of publisher, city where the
source was published, page number, and many
more.
 The is even a “show all field” option.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
 Visit the Microsoft Office Site at:
 http://office.microsoft.com
 This site can help you with putting in footnotes, endnotes

and citations on your favorite report of your choosing.

 You can ask your teacher or tutor for additional help on

your reports and using APA or MLA style of reports using

the right sources and citations correctly and clearly on any
subject your wanted to do a report on.
 Writing can be very essential if you can put your mind into
it.