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course) or even both, then confirm with Insert and Close. In similar fashion you can

point to tables or illustrations.

24 Footnotes and References

You add a footnote from the menu Insert › Footnote/Endnote › Automatic. This way

the programme takes care of numbering automatically. You can even move a footnote anchor

around by marking it in your text, cutting it out and pasting it before or after another foot-

note, and its numbering will be automatically updated.

On the whole it’s best to do without footnotes. You might want to use them to point to fur-

ther reading or arguments by other authors which you don’t want to deal with directly in your

main text because that would interrupt the flow of reading. But even here I would try to find a

way of integrating these elements directly in the text, possibly in the form of a short digres-

sion for example, or possibly use endnotes instead of footnotes for such purposes.

What you most certainly won’t need footnotes for is literature sources. Just put these in the

shortest form possible in brackets, not forgetting page number, and that’s it. Then have a liter-

ature 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

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.

This so-called Harvard Notation is by the way not universally applied. In university circles,

where arguments often follow the flow of quoted authors, it seems especially appropriate. But

in other texts these sources in brackets could be distracting.

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 without having to return to your text in between. This facilitates an overall brush-

up of all your footnotes in one fell swoop.

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