Tuesday, December 15, 2009

How do you footnote two different references that are contained in the same sentence?

If they are two different references for two different items, but in the same sentence, you do it just the same as if they were in separate sentences. That is, one is footnoted #1, the next #2 and they are treated independently. If they are two footnotes that refer to the same item, you footnote the first reference, then add: 'and' and give the second reference. Or you can give the first reference and at the end of it, add: ';See also ...'; and give the second reference.How do you footnote two different references that are contained in the same sentence?
In the example below, replace the numbers in (round brackets) with footnote numbers, and use the numbers in [square brackets] as the entry where the footnote goes at the bottom of the page. The references themselves are in Harvard style.





';In Biber's work on the Corpus (1), the introduction was not as comprehensive as that of Kennedy (2) in terms of description.';





[1] Biber, D et al. (1998) Corpus Linguistics: Investigating Language Structure and Use. Cambridge: CUP.


[2] Kennedy, G. (1998) An introduction to corpus linguistics. London: Longman.How do you footnote two different references that are contained in the same sentence?
Right - do 2 foot notes at the end of the sentence. So it will be your first raised number 1 (or whatever number you're on) then type the word ';and'; then insert another footnote.





Just remember footnotes always go at the end of the sentence and not in the middle. It sounds like you know that, but some people don't.





***EDIT**** for the people telling you to do footnotes in the middle of the sentence - they are WRONG -- it is not proper and I guarantee if this is for school, you will get points taken off for it.
I THINK that you would assign ref'; that comes first with a lower number than the first. eg. So an so said';......';(1)while admitting that ';,,,,,'; (2) was not the case. Is that something like what you meant?
* and ** and ***.

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