Depending on the style guide you are following or the nature of your document, it may be necessary to use footnotes.
Footnotes are placed at the bottom of the page. They often give extra information about the content of the document. This could include copyright permissions, background information, or extraneous information that isn't directly related to the topic of the report.
If you are beginning this course at this point, you will need to access the practice document.
In Google Docs, you will copy the practice document to your Google Drive.
Right-click Copy practice document, Click Open link in new window
The file begins to open in a new window of the web browser. Before the document will open and can be edited, we need to make a copy of it.
Move to the new browser window.
Click 
The naming convention used by IT Training is as follows: File name: Course title: Section title. When the file was copied to your Google Drive, the words "Copy of" were added to the beginning of the file name. Throughout these materials, files will be referred to as, Copy of File name.
Let's add a footnote to the quote by Dolly Parton. We want to explain that this quote is actually a song lyric.
Click at the end of the Dolly Parton quote
Click Insert, Click Footnote
The cursor moves to the bottom of the page next to a small superscript numeral 1. We can add the footnote here.
This is a song lyric.
Click in the document content
The footnote in the content of the document appears after the quote:
The corresponding footnote appears at the end of the page:
If more footnotes are added to the document, the numbering will automatically adjust.
