What do you put in the footnote?
What do you put in the footnote?
Footnotes belong to scientific texts. Above all, they serve to prove the sources of direct or indirect quotations. They also have the task of inserting additions that relieve the main text, explanations or comments.
When do I use a footnote?
In the German citation style, footnotes are generally used to substantiate text passages. These are represented by superscript numbers in the running text, which refer to the literature cited.
What belongs in a reference?
For the information you usually need the first and last name of the author, the title of the work, the place of publication, the publisher, the year of publication and the page. The source for a book according to the German citation style looks like this: ¹First name, name, title of the work.
What do you have to use footnotes for?
You have to put a footnote if you take over a content from the literature in the body text literally or analogously. Even if you mention the name of an author, you have to put a footnote (example: Fritz Müller recently stated that + footnote!).
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