Hi Miguel,

Indeed you need to include a footnote when you paraphrase another source. The footnote is indicated in the text with a number, and then the note itself contains the full source reference.

I am using Chicago style’s footnotes and I am paraphrasing a text written on a book.

My question is if I only need to put a number after my own words and write a complete reference in the footnotes, or if I should do something else.

Miguel

Hi Bill,

You can find information about this here.

Hi John,

Assuming you’re talking about author-date style, you can follow the advice here, under “Interview you conducted.” You can cite the interview just once, the first time you quote from the interview, if it remains clear that you’re continuing to refer to that same interview. If you refer to other sources in between or there’s some other reason it might be ambiguous what source you’re referring to, cite it again the next time you refer to it.

Please help. Thank you.

Hi João,

In that case, cite it using a similar format to that used for citing a chapter from a book. List the author of the introduction, then “Introduction to [Book Title], by [Author of the whole book]”, then give the page range of the introduction, followed by the place of publication, publisher, and year. For example:

Ryan, Kiernan. Introduction to Under the Net, by Iris Murdoch, iii–xi. London: Vintage, 2002.

Thanks so much for the help!

Hi Nicole,

If all the quotes in the sentence are from the same source, you just need one citation; the footnote can appear at the end of the sentence. Give a single page number if all the quotes are from the same page, or multiple page numbers (in the order in which the quotes are cited) if they come from different pages. For example:

1. Johnson, “Literature Review,” 11, 13, 15.