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[SharkSpider]

Hey, just wondering how History IA footnotes are supposed to look. My teacher said "you're wrong" when I asked her if I was right, but she didn't seem willing to show me an example or even attempt to explain why I was wrong. Anyways, just a quick example for books/websites and I should be able to get back to work. Thanks in advance!

[Vvi]

First, ask your teacher which style she wants the footnotes in. Most schools have a preferred one that they want used for all subjects. The IB doesn't care, as long as it's used worldwide.There are 4 different ways to do footnotes, all of which have rules for where commas, periods and italics go.

[url="http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html"]http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html[/url]
For the Chicago Manual of Style.

[url="http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/"]http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/[/url]
For MLA style.

[url="http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/02/"]http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/02/[/url]
For APA style.

[url="http://www.libs.uga.edu/ref/turabian.html"]http://www.libs.uga.edu/ref/turabian.html[/url]
For Turabian style.

An easier way is to go to [url="http://citationmachine.net/"]http://citationmachine.net/[/url] , which doe it for you when you feed it the information. It does MLA, Turabian, Chicago and APA styles.

Or [url="http://citationcenter.net/ctool.php5"]http://citationcenter.net/ctool.php5[/url] , which does all styles except Chicago.