APA Style (7th Edition) Guide: Footnotes

Definition:

A brief note with additional information or copyright attribution.

Additional information includes essential or supplemental content that complements the text. It strengthens the discussion in your text and usually get across one idea in your text. It is not meant to be long or complicated.

Copyright attribution is required as a footnote if your text included very long quotations. The format of the footnote can be:

• Reprinted with permission
• Adapted with permissoin

Placement:

1. appear at the bottom of the page where they are called out
   1. single-spaced
   2. format using Word settings for footnotes
2. appears on a separate page after the References page
   1. indented and double-spaced

Example :

1 A Greenhouse–Geisser adjustment of the degrees of freedom was performed in anticipation of a sphericity assumption violation.

2 A test of the homogeneity of variance assumption revealed no statistically significant difference in response rate variance between the two delivery modes for the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd years.