4. Footnotes and Endnotes
on January 30, 2012
Posted in: Footnotes and Endnotes
The MLA Handbook recommends the use of notes for two purposes:
1. Content notes for information that cannot easily fit into the text
2. Bibliographic notes for citing additional sources
Place a superscript arabic numeral after the reference in the text and include the information in a footnote or endnote.
Poe’s “Al Aaraaf” runs much longer than any poem he ever penned.3
3 The poem runs to 422 lines, which is four times the length that Poe himself later thought advisable.
Poe’s invention of the modern detective story derives from his chronic despair and was an act of personal consolation.5
5 For a useful explanation of Poe’s creative process see Silverman 171–74 and Hoffman 104–15.
Hoffman, Daniel. Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe. New York: Doubleday, 1972. Print.
Silverman, Kenneth. Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance. New York: Harper, 2009. Print.
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