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This is something I do that may be helpful to others. Whenever I write a first (or 15th) draft, I will put my footnotes or citations within the text and keep them there until the final revision. This is especially helpful when or if you end up not using that particular cited sentence/phrase or have to add a new one. You won't have to reformat the whole paper to make it fit properly or move the citation when the second or third line of the footnote ends up going to another page. All you do is c&p the citation to the bottom of the page and then you won't lose any lines or have extra blank space at the bottom of the page (like I've done a few times).
I will start writing it like this:Caesar was born in 100 BC (full citation). He became emperor in whatever year (full citation).Since all that is on the same page for the final revision I just c&p the citations and place them at the bottom of the page like this:Caesar was born in 64 BC.1 He became emperor in whatever year21full citation2full citationIf I just wrote those sentences and left the citation as 1 in my first draft, then when I try to add the full citation I have to make sure I have the room left at the bottom of the page otherwise the citation will go to the next page.
I'm not sure what program you're using, but it sounds like you're manually putting in superscript for your footnotes. The program I use, OpenOffice, has an automatic footnoting system (under Insert > Footnote/Endnote) which prevents footnotes from running onto the next page (unless it's really long). I know that Microsoft Word has the same type of automatic footnotes as well.The benefit of using the built-in footnoting function is that it does the numbers automatically; if I want to take a paragraph from page 19 and put it in page 4, for example, I can cut and paste it and the footnote numbers will automatically adjust.
I know that Microsoft Word has the same type of automatic footnotes as well.
I just figured out how to do it in Word. I feel so stupid. As far as this tip goes....nevermind. :-[
Both Word and Open Office can do amazing things. While writing my theses I am finding stuff that Word can do that is making the job immenseley easier. Word's indexing feature alone will save me hours of time.
I downloaded Open Office and I think I am done purchasing Word. If you have 99% of the real thing for free, why buy the real thing?
I downloaded Open Office and I think I am done purchasing Word. If you have 99% of the real thing for free, why buy the real thing?
After I got my present desktop in the fall of 2005, I downloaded OpenOffice since the computer didn't come with Word. Although it's no problem to save OO documents in Word format, the formatting is sometimes a bit different so it's annoying trying to make sure such documents look right. Now what I try to do is save documents in pdf format so that the formatting is preserved just as I want it.
The current version of Word also allows to save documents as PDF's. It is my preferred method because it is harder to change a PDF document than a Word file. I am uneasy submitting anything to a third party that is easy to edit.
The current version of Word also allows to save documents as PDF's. It is my preferred method because it is harder to change a PDF document than a Word file. I am uneasy submitting anything to a third party that is easy to edit.
Reason I keep both files... for many things I used pagepaker 6.5 for the perm. doc. as I can control specail formating better (too many years working on school annuals) 😉Wally
