Why use footnotes? What information goes into them? All of the information here comes straight from the 7th edition of the Publication Manual.

In this guide, students can learn about the different uses for footnotes as well as how to format footnotes according to APA Style.

Either way, it’s important to know how to use footnotes properly. This guide on footnotes, end notes, and parentheticals provides information about the differences between these different types of notes. Alternatively, you can put them on their own page after the references. Properly formatted APA footnotes can be placed at the bottom of the page. Footnotes can be content based, providing a little more insight on an idea you raise in the text, or they can be used to provide copyright attribution for long quotes and passages. The information in footnotes is different from the information provided in APA annotated bibliographies. Footnotes are a way for the author to provide additional content to their papers without distracting the reader from the text.

Footnote referencing