Correct way to use footnote?

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What is the correct way to use footnotes. The source I purchased failed to mention correct or useful information. For a book should I include a page? For a personal communication, how is this done? If you cite a work once in a footnote, do you use the format for each additional footnote with the same source, or an abbreviated form?





Any details you can provide would be appreciatedCorrect way to use footnote?
It can depend on the form of citation style you are using (i.e. MLA, APA). Generally, a footnote is as follows to reference an idea or statement: 1 Smith, 145-147. Some styles of citation require that in your first footnote of the particular author as follows: Smith, John. The Name of This Book. New York: 1999. Pages 1-14. Then the whole: ';Smith, 15.'; Following that. Textual footnotes are also an option. Again, it depends on the type of citation style you are using.Correct way to use footnote?
A footnote is marked with an * or asterick. When you cite a phrase or paragraph from another author, you add the * after the phrase and at the bottom of the page put an * then the source of the phrase or paragraph. For a book, you should footnote the book's Title, Author and you may include the page, in fact you should. For a personal communication, and asterick may also be used just as for a book. If all of your footnotes are from the same source, you can footnote it as follows: *Title, Author, Page 123 and all other footnotes in this book will be from the book, Title and Author. Additional footnotes will be by page numbers only. Then all you have to do is footnote the page numbers. The abbreviation for page is pg. Your footnote would look like this: *pg. 123. I hope this helps you. God bless you.
With a foot guitar.
here is a web link that may help you, specifically for APA style formatting:





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