doctorswera.blogg.se - Footnote referencing

First name first in the footnoteĪccording to the Oxford style, the citations in the footnotes look almost the same as in the reference list. The first time you refer to a source, you must include full information about the source's author, title and publication. The information about the source is written in a specific way in the footnote. Each citation receives a new number, regardless of whether you have already cited the same source.Īt the end of your document, you collect all the sources you have used in an alphabetical reference list.

The first citation gets the number 1, and the next gets the number 2, and so on.

This is where you write the information about the source you have used.

At the bottom of the same page, the corresponding number appears in a footnote.

In some cases, you can also place the note elsewhere in the sentence. Use the footnote function in Word or another word processing program.

Put a note (a raised number) immediately after the sentence or paragraph in which you refer to a source.

According to the Oxford style, references in the body of the text work like this: When you mention other people's texts or theories in an academic text, you need to make a clear reference to the sources you used.

The examples on this page are based on Umeå University Library's version of the Oxford style.