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Revision as of 12:36, 12 January 2014
- Introduction
- Theory
- Document Structure
- Chapter Headings
- Chapter Numbering
- Table of Contents
- Outline
- Navigator
- Text Body
- Paragraph styles overview
- Reusing styles
- Default Page Formatting
- Title Page
- Papers without a Title Page
- Pages with and without numbering
- Roman Page Numbering
- Group Work
- Proofreading
- Numbered lists and bullets
- Line numbering
- Cross-references
- Footnotes
- Bibliography
- Quotes
- Tables
- Charts
- Pictures
- Snapshots
- Presentations & Graphics
- Cross tables (Statistics)
- Extra Long Web Adresses
- Fonts
- Emphasis
- Special Characters
- Non separable combinations
- Shortcut keys
- Mouse clicks
- PDFs
- Saving your files
- Several files open at once
- Search and replace
- Spell Check
- Synonyms
- Document Infos
- Labels and Form letters
- Help
- Installing Program
- Microsoft Word
- Practice I
- Practice II
You add a footnote from the menu Insert › Footnote/Endnote › Automatic. This way the programme takes care of numbering automatically. Even if you move footnotes around, their numbering will be automatically updated. On the whole it’s best to do without footnotes. You might want to use them to point to further reading or arguments by other authors, which you don’t want to deal with directly in your main text. But for this endnotes might be a better solution than footnotes. What you most certainly won’t need footnotes for is for literature sources. Just put these in the shortest form possible in brackets, not forgetting page number, and that’s it. Then have a literature list at the very end of your thesis with all required information. So in your text you might write:
- (Wilson 2005 : 27) in case you are only referring to one of his writings
- (Wilson 2005a : 89) in case you are referring to several of his writings of the year 2005
- (Wilson et al. 2005 : 99) in case you are referring to a work co-authored by Wilson
All further information such as:
Wilson, John, “The Role of Early Kindergarten Education” in: Quarterly Journal for Child Pedagogy, 2005-3, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
you would then put in your literature list at the end of your paper. Avoiding footnotes has the advantage of not forcing the reader to jump to the bottom of the page and back again thus interrupting the flow of reading. Pages without footnotes are also optically more pleasing. Last but not least it means less typing for you and reduced likelihood of making mistakes.
Footnotes have their own Paragraph Style, based on Default. So they will appear with Single Line Spacing. This exemplifies why it is indeed best not having used (and modified) Default style in place of Text Body style.
In OpenOffice Writer you can jump from one footnote to the next using the up and down arrow keys.
In case you only have a couple of footnotes, it’s better to use a single Character instead of Automatic Numbering, e.g. a *.
* Umberto Eco’s “How to Write a Thesis” is a wonderfully inspiring guide for anyone wishing to embark on such a journey. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to be available in English. His “Name of the Rose” is probably his best known work. Sean Connery played the main part in the film version.
