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Research and Documentation
Color-Coded MLA and APA Citation Guidelines:
CITATION GUIDELINES » MLA STYLE » NOTES
NOTES
Sometimes you may need to give information that doesn't fit into the text itself—to thank people who helped you, provide additional details, or refer readers to other sources not cited in your text. Such information can be given in a footnote (at the bottom of the page) or an endnote (on a separate page with the heading Notes just before your works-cited list. Put a superscript number at the appropriate point in your text, signaling to readers to look for the note with the corresponding number. If you have multiple notes, number them consecutively throughout your paper.
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Sometimes you may need to give information that doesn't fit into the text itself—to thank people who helped you, provide additional details, or refer readers to other sources not cited in your text. Such information can be given in a footnote (at the bottom of the page) or an endnote (on a separate page with the heading Notes just before your works-cited list. Put a superscript number at the appropriate point in your text, signaling to readers to look for the note with the corresponding number. If you have multiple notes, number them consecutively throughout your paper.
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This essay will argue that small liberal arts colleges should not recruitNOTE
athletes and, more specifically, that giving student athletes preferential
treatment undermines the larger educational goals.1
1I want to thank all those who have contributed to my thinking on
this topic, especially my classmates and my teachers Marian Johnson and
Diane O'Connor.