Footnotes
Term papers are only accepted with footnotes.
Notes in the main text should be numbered consecutively and indicate a reference at the bottom of the page (= footnote).
The numbers (superscript in the text) must be added (without space!) behind a punctuation mark (see the example below).
Notes can contain indications of literature and text. They are meant to contain secondary text, such as technical information, which might disturb the main text.
Notes always start with a capital letter and are concluded with a period.
Example:
Unlike many cities and nations, Florence had no single heroic founder; instead it adopted the ultimate hero Hercules, founder of the civic cult of Rome, as its emblem.1
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1 Leopold D. Ettlinger, “Hercules Florentinus,” in: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 16, 1972, pp. 119–142; Monica Donato, “Hercules and David in the early decoration of the Palazzo Vecchio,” in: Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 54, 1991, pp. 83–98.
Author’s first name before his surname (see above: Leopold D. Ettlinger, Monica Donato).
If you cite a title for the second, third, etc. time, use the following form: author (as note …).
Example (referred to the example above, note 1):
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5 Ettlinger (as note 1), p. 140; Donato (as note 1), pp. 85–87.
Ettlinger’s article about “Hercules Florentinus” is above referred to in its entire length, therefore, pp. 83–98. If you indicate only one page, it is “p.”
p. = one page
pp. = two and more pages
If you quote from sources on the web, you should quote the address and add the date of access (mind the quality of the website!).
The date of access must be written as follows (example): accessed on 17 April 2021.
You should write:
“accessed,” “retrieved” or “sighted” followed by the exact date, when you visited the page.
Example:
There is a further important source: the mention of Jupiter’s Cretan tomb also appears in Servius’s commentary to Virgil’s “Aeneid”, a work that of course enjoyed considerable popularity in humanist circles.1
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1 Maurus Servius Honoratus, Commentary on the Aeneid of Vergil; The Perseus Digital Library at http://www.perseus.tufts.edu (accessed on 17 April 2021).