Adding Endnotes

***It is easiest to add the endnotes AS YOU ARE WRITING the paper.***
It takes much more time to search through your notes looking for a specific fact to
endnote it later.

Microsoft Word
1. Type your sentence. With the cursor after the punctuation, go to the
REFERENCES menu and click INSERT ENDNOTE.

2. If the endnote appears as a lower case Roman numeral (i), highlight it and click on
the downward facing arrow at the bottom of the
Footnotes section. A new menu should pop up.
3. Click on the down arrow by Number format
and select 1, 2, 3,
4. Make sure the Numbering says Continuous
this means the computer will automatically
adjust the numbers for you when you add or
delete endnotes.
5. Click APPLY. This will cause you to jump to the
bottom of your last page of text.
6. Type your endnote citation (which is different
from your bibliography citation).

LibreOffice

1. Type your sentence. With the cursor

after the punctuation, go to the INSERT
menu and click
FOOTNOTE/ENDNOTE.
2. A new menu should pop up. Select
ENDNOTE as the type of citation and
click OK. This will cause you to jump
to the bottom of your last page of text.
3. Type your endnote citation (which
is different from your bibliography
citation).
4. If the endnote appears as a lower
case Roman numeral (i), highlight it
and click on the TOOLS menu at
the top of the screen.
6. Select FOOTNOTES/ENDNOTES
from the menu that drops down.
7. Click on the down arrow by
Numbering, select 1, 2, 3, ,
and click OK.

ENDNOTE FORMAT:
The first time you use a source, you must use a full endnote citation (see below).
Every subsequent time, use only the authors last name and page number. If you
have more than one author with the same last name (or more than one source by
the same author), use an abbreviated form of the title, as well. (last name,
abbreviated title, page number.)
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Authors first and last names. Title. (where published: publishers name,
publication date), page number.
The first line of endnote citations is indented one-half inch. They are singlespaced, with an extra space between citations.

SAMPLE PARAGRAPH WITH ENDNOTES (from a paper Ms. B wrote about American
General John Sullivans attacks on the Iroquois during the Revolutionary War)
When the expedition arrived at the first town to attack, the enemy forces had
already fled. Sullivan ordered all the houses (thirty to forty of them) be burned and
all the corn and gardens be destroyed.1 One day later, the army moved on towards
Unadilla. They burned a small settlement near there called Albout along with a
settlement on the other side of the river.2 More corn was destroyed along with
another town on the 13th, but there was a small skirmish between Col. Cilley's
regiment and enemy forces.3 Lt. Beatty records that the next town attacked by
Sullivan's men, on August 14, had already been abandoned by the Indians, so the
expedition was safe from attack.4 More towns and corn were destroyed on August 17,
1779 before Sullivan's expedition met up with General Clinton's army two days later. 5
Together, the two armies burned approximately twenty houses on August 19 and
twenty more on the 20th.6

Endnotes for this excerpt

(which would normally start on a new page)

1 John Sullivan to [?], August 1779, Papers of the Continental Congress, Microfilm Roll 178,
300.
2 Erkuries Beatty, Journal of Lieut. Erkuries Beatty in the Expedition against the Six Nations
under Gen. Sullivan, 1779, (New York: New York Historical Society, 1879), 232.
3 Jeremiah Fogg, "Journal of Major Jeremiah Fogg," in Journals of the Military Expedition of
Major General John Sullivan against the Six Nations of the Indians in 1779, (Auburn: Knapp, Peck &
Thomson Printers, 1887), 92. Beatty, 232. Gore, 20.
4 Beatty, 232.
5 Ibid., 233.
6 Fogg, 93. Beatty, 233, 234.

Bibliography for this excerpt

(which would normally start on a new page)
Beatty, Erkuries. Journal of Lieut. Erkuries Beatty in the Expedition against the Six
Nations under Gen. Sullivan, 1779. New York: New York Historical Society,
1879.
Gore, Obadiah Jr. The Revolutionary Diary of Lieut. Obadiah Gore, Jr. Edited by
RWG Vail. New York: New York Public Library, 1929.
Journals of the Military Expedition of Major General John Sullivan against the Six
Nations of the Indians in 1779. Edited by Frederick Cook. Auburn: Knapp,
Peck & Thomson Printers, 1887.
Papers of the Continental Congress, Microfilm Rolls 77, 178, 183.