Exercise 1: A Book

Here's your chance to practise producing a straightforward footnote to a book. Remember, the footnote needs to include:

  1. Author's name (followed by a comma)
  2. Title of book (in italics, in full, with all principal words capitalised)
  3. Details of publication in parentheses (place of publication: publisher, date)
  4. Page number(s) (preceded by a comma and 'p.' or 'pp.'; followed by a full stop)

Exercise

 

For this exercise, imagine you wanted to cite page fifteen of this book.

Type your answer in the box below, remembering to enclose titles in *   * to indicate italicisation.

Correct footnote:

Your footnote above should look like this:
Lawrence Manley, *Literature and Culture in Early Modern London* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), p. 15.
In your own work, the same footnote would look like this:
Lawrence Manley, Literature and Culture in Early Modern London (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), p. 15.

Comment:

As this is an unchanged reprinting of the first paperback edition, the date of publication should be given as 1995, not 1997. If the book had (hypothetically) been revised into a second edition, rather than simply reprinted, the footnote might read:
Lawrence Manley, Literature and Culture in Early Modern London, 2nd edn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), p. 15.
The issue of referencing subsequent editions of books is covered further in the 'Advanced Tutorial'.

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