
If you are using a PinPoint (page number etc.) add this after the Cross-Reference. Type any punctuation needed to close the cross-reference e.g. In the Cross-Reference box choose the following options:Ĭhoose the relevant footnote and click Insert If you select Insert Citation and Add New Source, it provides fields for you to enter Author, Title, etc., but it creates an in-text citation, not a footnote or endnote. The cross-reference is inserted, but it is still not formatted as a footnote reference. In Word 16, If you select Insert Footnote or Insert Endnote, it doesn't provide fields for you to enter Author, Title, etc. Select the footnote you want used for this reference. Word displays a list of footnotes in the dialog box. Using the Reference Type drop-down list, choose Footnote. OSCOLA requires cross-references to be in the form (n4) for a cross-reference to footnote 4 so the prefix is (n.Ĭlick Insert Cross-reference in the Word toolbar (if you can’t see the word Cross-reference, click the small button with red dashes next to Insert Caption). MS Word will display the Cross-reference dialog box. In Word place your cursor at the end of the Footnote outside the ‘grey’ EndNote field for your subsequent citation. the OSCOLA style only requires the surname of the first author for a journal article.

If your style has been set up correctly in EndNote it will insert your subsequent citation in the appropriate format e.g. Insert a footnote as usual then go to EndNote to select the reference for your subsequent citation and click Insert Citation. Use the Cross-reference function in Word so that your document automatically updates when you enter new citations.

in the OSCOLA style ‘Smith (n3)’ is a subsequent citation to a journal article by Smith cited in footnote 3.

Some styles require subsequent citations to be in an abbreviated form with a cross-reference to the initial citation e.g. (Optional Step) If you have footnotes and endnotes, choose View footnote area or View endnote area followed by the OK button in the Show Notes dialog box. First, write the text you want to attach a footnote to, then click on References on the ribbon menu at the top.
