How to Do Footnotes in APA Format
APA, or American Psychological Association, style is often used when writing papers, usually in the social sciences. This style has a set of guidelines for how to do footnotes, bibliography pages, in-text citations, quotations and so on. Footnotes are often used by writers to supply more information about something they mentioned in the text. APA style has certain rules for writers when they are using footnotes either at the bottom of the page or on a separate footnote page.
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Instructions
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Insert a number in superscript near the sentence in the text that needs the supporting information written as a footnote. The superscript number is usually placed after a punctuation mark. If the punctuation mark is a dash, the superscript number goes before it. Superscript numbers go inside parentheses under APA style.
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Use the footnote tool in your word-processing program to create the footnote that supports your text and matches the superscript number. These footnotes are usually placed at the bottom of the page on which the text appears.
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Indent the first line of the footnote five spaces, and then put in the matching superscript number before typing the complete footnote.
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Use a separate page for footnotes with APA style if you have several on one page and you can't fit them at the bottom. Center the heading "Footnotes" at the top of the separate page.
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Indent the first line of each of the footnotes five spaces on the separate page just as you would if you placed the footnotes at the bottom of the page. Insert the superscript number and double-space the footnote.
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