When writing any scientific work, the author analyzes many sources of information. Therefore, it is mandatory to indicate all the resources that were used. To clearly indicate where this or that literature was used, references to it in the text should be made. What should be the design of links, find out further.
Despite the fact that there is a special GOST on the design of footnotes, some educational institutions impose their own requirements on both the list of sources and the references to resources themselves. Often, universities publish their own methodological manuals that help students complete their scientific work according to all standards.
When should links be made?
The design of links should be mandatory if:
- The text uses a quote from an external source.
- In his work, the author provides data from a specific resource.
- Student analyzes information provided by another author.
- The work contains illustrations, tables orformulas borrowed from a third-party source.
- The author briefly provided an overview of the topic, but wants to draw the reader's attention to a more complete presentation of the material in another work.
It is not necessary to make links when writing an article in a scientific publication, as well as in the case when the text contains a quote from a famous work of the great classics, published in multiple editions. References are also not used in tutorials if an example is given from another resource.
Fiction often contains references to terms, concepts, the meaning of which is explained below.
Types of links
Intratext footnote. It is used when the main part of the link is indicated in the text itself. It is also often used in reference books with a large number of indexes and in epigraphs.
Extra text link. It is used when there is an analysis of text from another source in the work.
Subtext link. Often this design option for footnotes can be seen in fiction.
Linking rules
First, you need to determine which version of the footnote to use in your work. In diploma and course projects, it is recommended to place overtext and subtext pointers to sources. And in essays, essays or reports, it is permissible to use inline.
In the last of the described cases, the design of links looks something like this:
In A. V. Romanov Fundamentalsbanking” (3rd ed., M.: Nauka, 2010) it was stated that a consumer loan is a loan to individuals for personal needs.
In this case, it is clear that the link is formatted in parentheses and only its missing part, which is not present in the text, is indicated.
If we are interested in the design of links behind the text, then consider the following example:
"The text of the work, which is based on information from a third-party resource" [3, p.42-45]
The footnote is indicated in square brackets. In this case, the first number means the number of the source in the list of references, and after that it is necessary to indicate the pages used.
Subtext links are marked with an icon on top according to the following principle: Text of work1.
A line is drawn at the end of the page, under which the bibliographic name of the resource is indicated. The text editor usually does this automatically.
Today, students also use Internet sources to a large extent. These can be textbooks, articles, magazines, statistics, and more.
The design of links to electronic resources follows the same principle as the design of footnotes to printed publications. However, when specifying them in the list of sources, use the following format: Geraismenko L. Accounting in trade enterprises: [Electronic resource]. 2009-2010. URL: link.
