Correct formatting of notes is critical. Our official standard footnoting system for this class will be the Chicago Manual of Style's humanities N: format. This format is quite commonly used in the leading historical journals and by university presses for historical monographs. You can find below a short list of example footnotes that may also prove helpful. There are other models that you may want to consult as well, including the footnotes in the books assigned for this term. Note that footnotes/endnotes are numbered sequentially, starting with 1 for the first note, 2 for the second note, etc.
| For this type: | Use the Footnote Citation Form in this column: |
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| Book | 1Kent Masterson Brown, Cushing of Gettysburg: The Story of a Union Artillery Commander, (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1993), 142-156. |
| Same book, next footnote |
2Ibid., 256-267. |
| Same book, later note |
3Brown, Cushing, 154. |
| Scholarly Article |
4Samuel L. Webb, "From Independents to Populists to Progressive Republicans: The Case of Chilton County, Alabama, 1880-1920," Journal of Southern History, 39 (November 1993): 707-736. |
| Newspaper | 5Charleston, South Carolina, Mercury, 17 March 1857. |
| Source quoted in another source | 6Charleston, South Carolina, Mercury, 17 March 1857, quoted in Smith, ed., Southern Reactions to the Dred Scott Case (Podunk, Nebraska: Neverpublished Press, 1999), 23. |
| Internet | 7Smithsonian Institution, "1846: Portrait of the Nation,"
<http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/1846/index.htm> [24 January 1997].
(The date should be the date you consulted the source. Use your browser's information function to determine this. Because sites change frequently this date can be very helpful.) |
| Multiple references |
7Ibid.; Webb, "Independents to Populists," 707-711; Brown, Cushing, 45-56. |