How to Cite an Email Within PowerPoint

PowerPoint is a great way to convey a lot of information to others, but it does suffer from one drawback: no intuitive method is available for citing or footnoting information. In some presentations, having citations for your sources, including email, may be quite important. One solution is to use the Footer controls in PowerPoint to designate the bottom of a slide as the area in which you place your citations. After you’ve set up the footer on a slide, you simply need to insert the proper citation.

Instructions

1. Navigate to the slide with the citation.

2. Click "Insert" and select "Header & Footer" from the main menu to open the Header and Footer dialogue box.

3. Tick the "Footer" check box.

4. Enter the following in the field below the Footer check box:

   Smith, John. "Re: Architectural Trends." Message to the author. 19 Oct. 2011. E-mail.

   Replace the name in the citation with the email author's name. Add the subject line from the email between the pair of quotation marks following the author’s name. Replace the date in the example with the date of the email.

5. Click "Apply" to add the footer to the open slide.

References

• Office 2010: The Missing Manual; Nancy Conner & Matthew MacDonald
• Purdue Online Writing Lab: MLA Formatting and Style Guide: MLA Works Cited (Electronic Sources)