What are footnotes?

Question

Also, what is the difference between footnotes and a biliography?I'm writing a research paper and my teacher wants me to do footnotes and attach them on another page as well as attaching the bibliography on another page. Thanks!

Answer 1

A bibliography is a list of books you used to research and reference your paper.  Footnotes are where you can reference further info and/or explain a quote or statement in your paper that would detract from the flow of your paper. If you go to this website and scroll a quarter of the way down it explains some do's and don't's on footnotes:

http://www.uca.edu/divisions/academic/hi...