DOCUMENTATION

STYLE - I

NOTES
---based on CMS Style
 What are NOTES?

Notes allow space for unusual types of sources as well

as for commentary on the sources cited, making this

system extremely flexible. Because of this flexibility,

the notes and bibliography system is preferred by many

writers in literature, history, and the arts.

The notes are usually numbered and correspond to

superscripted note reference numbers in the text.

 What Do Notes Consist Of?

 Bibliographic citations are provided in notes, preferably

supplemented by a bibliography.
 Notes might also be some general substance giving additional
info to the content that is described in the text

(Fig)
Types of NOTES

FOOTNOTE
ENDNOTE
FOOTNOTES
ENDNOTES—end of
chapter
ENDNOTES—end of book

(Fig)
 Sequencing of Note Numbers and
Symbols

 Notes should be numbered consecutively, beginning with 1,

throughout each new chapter—not throughout an entire book.

 Where only a handful of footnotes appear in an entire book or,

perhaps, just one in an article, symbols may be used instead of

numbers. Usually an asterisk is enough, but if more than one
note is needed on the same page, the sequence is * † ‡ §.
 Placement of Note Numbers

 A note number should generally be placed at the end of a sentence

or at the end of a clause. The number normally follows a quotation
(whether it is run in to the text or set as an extract).
E.g., "This, ‘wrote George Templeton Strong,’ is what our tailors
can do."1
 Relative to other punctuation, the number follows any punctuation
mark except for the dash, which it precedes.
E.g., The bias was apparent in the Shotwell series1—and it must
be remembered that Shotwell was a student of Robinson's
 Other Rules
 A note number should never appear within or at the end of a
chapter title or in section heads.
 A note that applies to an entire chapter should be unnumbered
and is preferably placed at the foot of the first page of the
chapter, preceding any numbered notes.
 It cannot reappear out of sequence; the substance of a note
that applies to more than one location must be repeated under
a new note number.
 To avoid such repetition, especially for a longer discursive note,
a cross-reference may be used.
E.g.,
18. See note 3 above.