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In case you only have a few footnotes, it’s better to use a single Character instead of Auto-

matic Numbering, e.g. a

25 Formatting your Literature List

A literature list could look something like this:

Fredrickson, George M., “Racism: A Short History”, Princeton, 2002

Keevak, Michael, “Becoming Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking”, Princeton, 2011

Thielen, Marc, “Jenseits von Tradition – Modernität und Veränderung männlicher Lebens-

weisen in der Migration als Provokation für die (Sexual-)Pädagogik”, in: Zeitschrift für Päd-

agogik 6/2010, Beltz-Verlag

Note here that the first line begins at left margin, but subsequent lines are indented. This

makes it easier for the reader to locate the authors’ names even if these are not in bold font.

For that you could just use the style Text body indent. I myself prefer creating a new style

called Lit, so I know exactly what it’s there for. To do that, right click on the style Default

and choose New. Go to the tab Indents & Spacing and set the Indent Before text to

0.75cm and the Indent First line to -0.75cm (i.e. a negative number). This style can then

be applied en block to the the whole literature list with a double click.

It’s also possible to sort this list alphabetically by marking the entries with the mouse and then

going to the menu Tools › Sort and pressing OK.

Note: You can use this feature of negative indent for other kinds of lists, dictionaries or even

interviews. Having the name of the interviewer and that of the interviewed person stand out

makes it easier to locate the beginning and the end of each part of the dialogue.

26 Quotes

Short quotes need “double quotation marks” to set them off from the rest of the text. Longer

ones need a paragraph of their own – usually indented and possibly in slightly smaller sized

font (say 11pt instead of 12pt) and with reduced line spacing (130% instead of 1.5). Italics

used to be common but not anymore.

Ellipses in square brackets […] are used as a stand-in for left-out parts of your quote. Square

brackets can also be used to signify change of capitalisation. Sometimes they are used to insert

explanatory words, e.g. translations of unfamiliar words, into your quote, which are not actu-

ally part of the original. Added insertions to help the flow of reading should be taken from

the immediate surroundings of the quote. Example: For Marx, “[t]he totality of these relations

of production constitutes the economic structure of society, the real foundation […]. The

mode of production of material life conditions the general process of social, political, and

intellectual life.” (Karl Marx, Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy,

1859)

* 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.

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