When writing any scientific work, the author analyzes many sources of information. Therefore, it is mandatory to indicate all the resources that have been used. To clearly indicate where this or that literature was used, reference should be made to it in the text. What should be the design of links, find out further.
Despite the fact that there is a special GOST on the subject of footnotes, some educational institutions present their requirements both to the list of sources and to the references to resources themselves. Often, universities publish their own teaching aids that help students complete their scientific work according to all standards.
When is it necessary to make links?
Linking should be required if:
- The text uses a citation from a third-party source.
- In his work, the author cites data from a specific resource.
- The student analyzes the information provided by another author.
- The work contains illustrations, tables or formulas borrowed from a third-party source.
- The author briefly presented a review 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 references 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 great classics published in multiple editions. Links are not used in textbooks if an example is given from another resource.
In fiction, there are often references to terms, concepts, the meaning of which is explained below.
Types of Links
Intertext footnote . It is used when the main part of the link is indicated in the text itself. It is also often used in directories with a large number of pointers and in epigraphs.
Text link . It is used when the analysis of the text from another source is present in the work.
Subtext link . Often this option for the design of footnotes can be seen in fiction.
Linking Rules
First you need to determine which version of the footnote to use in your work. In graduation and course projects, it is recommended to place subtext and subtext pointers to sources. And in an essay, essay or report it is permissible to use in-text.
In the last of the described cases, the layout of the links looks something like this:
In the manual A.V. Romanov's “Fundamentals of Banking” (3rd ed., Moscow: Nauka, 2010), it was pointed out that consumer credit is a loan to individuals for personal needs.
In this case, it can be seen that the link is made in parentheses and only its missing part is indicated, which is not present in the text.
If we are interested in the design of links for text, then it is worth considering 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 give an indication of the pages used.
Subtext links are drawn with an icon at the top according to this principle: Text 1.
At the end of the page, a line is drawn, under which the bibliographic name of the resource is indicated. A text editor usually does this automatically.
Today, students also use Internet sources in large volumes. This can be textbooks, articles, magazines, statistics, and more.
The design of links to electronic resources follows the same principle as the design of footnotes for print media. However, when specifying them in the list of sources, use the following format: L. Geraismenko. Accounting in trade enterprises: [Electronic resource]. 2009-2010. URL: link.