 |
||||
|
||||
|
|
||||
 |
6.2.1 Five situations require source notes:
- direct quotations, even excerpts
- quantifiable data (facts and statistics)
- information that is not common knowledge to your audience
- paraphrased presentation of original or unique ideas
- visual material, both content and design
6.2.2 Source notes can be presented in one of three ways:
- parenthetical
notes within the text of a document (often called internal citations)
- footnotes,
at the bottom of a page
- endnotes, at the conclusion of a document
Although there are three kinds of source notes, technical documents use parenthetical notes almost exclusively, so that’s what is encouraged and illustrated in this Handbook. These parenthetical notes in the text of a document identify the author, date, and page number for the source of information. Readers can find the complete information in the sources cited list at the end of the document. In this style of documentation, a parenthetical reference immediately follows the quoted or paraphrased material:
EXAMPLE
(Wallace 2000, 127–28) identifies the author, date, and pages
The models in section 6.3 illustrate the formats that The
Chicago Manual of Style favors for parenthetical notes and the related
full
references that
would appear in the sources cited list.