BUS X170 How Business Works

If you're using Word:

1. Click in the body of your document where you want the footnote reference mark (a small superscript number or symbol) to appear. This should be immediately after the intformation that you're 'borrowing,' even if that puts it in the middle of a sentence.
2. In the ribbon at the top of the Word window, click on the References tab.
3. In the "Footnotes" group, click the Insert Footnote button. You can also use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Alt + F.
4. Word will automatically insert a numbered reference mark at the location of your cursor in the main text and will move your cursor to the bottom of the page. Here, you can type the text for your footnote.

 If you're using some other software, you'll need to look up information online. There are too many options to list them all here.

Canva does not have a footnote function: you'll need to insert superscript numbers, then manually create a text box at the bottom with the corresponding number and the reference.

1. The author's name: Give this as Lastname, Firstname for a single person and as Big Corporation [not as Corporation, Big] for an organization or company.
2. The title of the article, report, dataset, book or website: Give this in quotes, e.g. "More People Are Buying  Pet Insurance."
3. The larger work in which the item appears (if there is one): This could be a the journal in which an article was published or the website that a webpage is part of and should be in italics.
4. The publisher: This is the organization that made the content available.
5. The date of publication: You might just have a year, or you might have a month and year or a day, month and year. Give as many pieces of the information as you have. 
6. The date you accessed the source (use only if it is a webpage*): Many webpages do not have a clear date of publication and what exits at a given web address can change, so if it is a website that anyone can access (i.e. not in a Library database), provide the date you looked at the source, preceded by 'Accessed,' like this: Accessed 5 July, 2022.

• Titled "Works Cited" (centered, no italics or quotes).

• Alphabetical Order: Entries are arranged in a single alphabetical list. The alphabetization is based on the first word of each entry, which is often the author's last name. If a work has no author, you alphabetize by the first word of the title (ignoring articles like "A," "An," or "The").

You should cite images the way you would cite anything else from the source you got the image from. Ideally, you should provide a caption that explains the image and put the footnote number immediately after it. 

If you're using Word, however, you can't put a footnote in a caption or text box, so label your visual (usually something like "fig. 1: Rideshares and Brand Loyalty"), then reference the figure in your text and put the citation after that mention:

As figure 1 shows, most people stick with a single rideshare company as their primary choice²

A source is any one article, chapter, report or dataset. You can cite a source multiple times, but it is still only one source. For example, you may include both a chart and a textual paraphrase of the content from the same report. Each of those would get its own citation, but they still come from one source.

A report or chapter may have different sections, but those sections are not separate sources. If it has the same author, title and date, it's the same source.