Help with quote footnoting?????

Question

How do I footnote a quote from a book (a novel)? Like what a character is saying, example:

"War is war, after all."

What is the proper footnoting format for a quote taken from a character in a book?

Answer 1

Use Microsoft Word. Click next to the part where you want to add your little footnote number. Go to the top and click insert, then click footnote. Then type away.

Edited to add: You need to use the title of the book and the page number in the footnote. Ex: The Catcher in the Rye, pg. 123.

Answer 2

With MLA, you need to put a full citation in the footnote. So, after the quote, put your footnote # (like the person above mentioned), and then put a citation like this (with the book title underlined or in Italics):

1. G. Wayne Miller, King of Hearts: The True Story of the Maverick Who Pioneered Open Heart Surgery (New York: Times, 2000) 245.

Any other quotes from the same book can then just have the author's last name, so for example, Miller 300.

You can also use parenthetical referencing, depending on your teacher. Some are picky about the format.

If you're mentioning the author in your sentence, then you can simply put the page number in brackets (32) at the end of your quote. If you have not mentioned the authorm, use the last name and the page # (Miller 32). If you are using more than one work by the same author, put an abreviated form of the book title, the last name, and the page # (King of Hearts, Miller 32).

Answer 3

go to this web site : http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html
and learn about it.