Q. What is the difference between footnotes, endnotes and bibliography?
What is the importance
of cross references in citation?
Footnotes
Footnotes are notes that are
placed at the top of a page and
wont to reference parts of the
text (generally using
superscript numbers). Writers
use footnotes for several
purposes, including citations,
parenthetical information,
outside sources, copyright
permissions, background
information, and more.
For example,
Philip Ball, Bright Earth: Art
and the
Invention of
Color (New
York: Farrar,
Straus and
Giroux, 2001),
140.
(at the end of the page)
Importance of cross references in citation:
Endnotes
An endnote is source citation
that refers the readers to a
selected place at the top of the
paper where they will
determine the source of the
knowledge or words quoted or
mentioned within the paper.
When using endnotes, your
quoted or paraphrased
sentence or summarized
material is followed by a
superscript number.
For example,
Philip Ball, Bright Earth: Art
and the
Invention of
Color (New
York: Farrar,
Straus and
Giroux, 2001),
140.
(at the end of the manuscript)
Bibliography
A bibliography may be a list
of all of the sources used
(whether referenced or not)
within the process of
researching your work.
generally, a bibliography
should include: the authors'
names. the titles of the works.
the names and locations of the
businesses that published your
copies of the source.
For example, Ball, Philip.
Bright Earth: Art and the
Invention of Color. New
York: Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, 2001.
● Cross reference may be regarded as information located elsewhere within the same
document. So if in Chapter 3 of a book, the reader is mentioned in Appendix A for more
detailed information on a selected topic, that’s a cross reference. Also, if you employ
MLA format, a cross-reference may be a thanks to reference multiple articles in an edited
work. In MLA, you'll include the complete citation for the edited book itself within the
reference list, then for every article, just list the author, article title, last name(s) of the
editor(s), and therefore the page numbers for the article.
● Cross-referencing may be a powerful tool which will greatly enhance the usefulness of
your work, allowing readers to link quickly and simply from one part of your work to
related material elsewhere, making your work significantly more functional and useful.
The key to effective cross-referencing is to point to a selected target which will be of use
to the reader.