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END NOTE DOCUMENTATION:

 

•   WHAT IS END NOTE DOCUMENTATION?

•   HOW IS IT DONE?

 

•   WHAT IS END NOTE DOCUMENTATION?

 

            End Note documentation is the documentation style of choice for some humanities fields.  It is not as popular as it used to be as a documentation style, but it is still used in a limited fashion.

 

            Basically, in end note documentation, small raised numbers (superscript) are inserted in the text corresponding to a citation given on note pages at the end of a paper.  The numbers run consecutively throughout from 1 onwards. 

 

•   HOW IS IT DONE?

 

            For the end note page, an inch from the top should be the word "Notes"--which should not be underlined, italicized or in quotation marks.  Next should follow a double space and then an indentation of five spaces.  A slightly-raised number "1" should be typed there, with the citation following.  Lines following the number should not be indented. 

            Other end notes follow with a blank line between each. 

            A bibliography may be used, arranged like an MLA (Modern Language Association) Works Cited page but labeled "Bibliography".

 

The following table derived from Gerald P. Mulderig's The Heath Guide to Writing the Research Paper (2nd Ed.) cites the main differences between MLA Works Cited and End Note Documentation.1

 

AUTHOR'S NAME:                     Use normal rather than inverted order for

                                                       the author's name.

 

INDENTATION:                          Indent (by 5 lines) the first line of an

                                                       end note, but not any subsequent lines.

 

PARENTHESES:                          Enclose the complete publication information

                                                       for books in parentheses.

 

COMMAS:                                    Separate the elements in an end note with

                                                       commas rather than periods.  No

                                                       punctuation comes before parentheses

                                                       unless the word before the parentheses

                                                       is an abbreviation that ends in a period.

 

PAGE CITATION:                        Always end an end note with a page

                                                       citation (about where you got your

                                                       information which you're quoting or

                                                       referring to) except for the following two

                                                       cases:

                                                       1)  the note refers to the entire work being

                                                       cited  

                                                                                    OR

                                                       2)  the source does not have pages, for

                                                       example, if they're computer software

                                                       programs, a film, an interview, a lecture, the

                                                       Internet, or other sources

 

            If a source is referred to several times, merely provide the author's last name  and a shortened form of the title as well as the page number of the citation at the end. 

 

            Please refer to copies of The Heath Guide for examples of end note documentation or James D. Carter's Writing Research Papers:  A Complete Guide (8th Edition, 1996).

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            1Gerald P. Mulderig, The Heath Guide To Writing the Research Paper (1992; Lexington, Massachusetts:  D.C. Heath and Company, 1995) 178 - 194. 

 

(Revised 1998)