Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.

Research Paper please help me!?

I'm starting my research paper for a government class today. I understand how to do it I think. However, I do have a question. When ever I use information from a website how do I put that into my paper. He said something about footnotes. How do I do this..can someone show me the proper form to put this into my paper. Thank you!

4 Answers

Relevance
  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    What kind of style is your research paper? There are couple. You are required to footnote all your sources. If you are using the MLA style....you can go to their website www.mla.org and get guidance on how to footnote and do a bibliography. If you are just starting college it may be to your benefit to get the MLA guide book or they may even have software you can use for writing your paper.

  • 1 decade ago

    You find the information that you want to put in your research paper to support your topic and you put it at the bottom of the page referencing it inside of the paper. You have to put the footnote on the same page of where it is in the paper.

    See website on how to write footnotes in MLA style:

    http://www.aresearchguide.com/7footnot.html

    The website explains how to write the footnotes with examples. Good Luck!

  • Manny
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    Turabian (sp?) is the style to use for history papers. The footnotes are pretty easy to learn and virtually the same as the average bibliography that school children are taught.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    I simply did a paper at the invention and early levels of baseball, it was once honestly fairly a laugh and i used to be in a position to do my paintings in view that i'm all in favour of baseball. I dont recognize if you're however thats simply my concept. Ok might be now not a laugh, cuz this can be a study paper. But it was once probably the most a laugh subject I would consider and it didnt get uninteresting

Still have questions? Get your answers by asking now.