4. Footnotes

Fuller guide to referencing in the Departments of English and Drama (e.g. film, online and electronic sources), including examples of how to present quotations, footnotes (and how to limit footnotes) and bibliographies in your essays.

This section gives information about how footnotes should appear when you are referencing the following sources:

4.1 Books

4.2 Chapters in books

4.3 Articles in journals

4.4 Theatre and performance

4.5 Footnoting plays and poems

4.6 Newspapers

4.7 Dissertations and theses

4.8 Online and electronic sources

4.9 Film and cinema

4.10 Manuscripts