Notes are the places in your paper where you tell your reader where your information came from and how they can find it. When writing history research papers, you have three choices in the placement of your notes:

• A note can appear at the bottom of each page. This is called a footnote.
• It can be placed at the end of your paper. This is called an endnote.

• Some instructors allow a third choice. The note can go in the text itself right after the part of the paper to which it refers. This is called internal notation or intertextual notation.

For more information about preparing different kinds of footnotes and endnotes, see Documenting the Sources Used in Your Paper.