Footnotes in Google Docs are utilized when we have to add some references to our document. Footnotes are the messages or notes that are inserted at the end of the page that contain information about something given on that page. Making footnotes on our Google Docs page is crucial in writing a thorough and reliable report. Readers can find extra details, quotations, or asides in the footnotes that are pertinent but not essential to the main text. In this guide, we will show the addition of the footnotes in Google Docs.

Example 1: Adding Footnote Using the “Insert” Option

We have a new document here in which we have not written a single word yet. We add the footnote in this document.

To insert the footnote to our document, we click on the “Insert” menu. From this insert menu, we select the “Footnote” option. This menu contains many insertion options, but we select one which is the “Footnote” option.

As we click on the “Footnote” option, the footnote is now added to the blank document. We might notice that the footnote appears at the end of the blank document; we can type anything that we want to add here as the footnote. We may also note that a little “1” is also typed here which shows that this is our first footnote.

We type “Here is the footnote” on this footnote portion. So, our first footnote is added here to this blank document.

Example 2: Adding a Reference Footnote

Now, we add the reference footnote in this example. We open the “Tools” menu. After this, we must explore websites whose links we want to add here. We click on the “Explore” option in the “Tools” menu.

After selecting the “Explore” option, a new window appears on which we have a search bar. Type any website that we want to explore here that is related to our document in this search bar. It will show all the possible results according to our search in this portion.

We type “my business” in this search bar, and it shows all the websites that match our search. We can add the reference of any website that we utilized in our document from this “Explore” option.

We select the option that says “Cite as a footnote” by clicking on it. Now, the reference to this or we can say the citation of this website is added to our document as the footnote.

Now, the citation of the website is added to the document as a footnote. In this manner, we can easily add the citation as a footnote to our document.

Example 3: Adding a Footnote on Any Specific Word

Now, we insert the footnote by selecting the word and then adding the footnote in which we typed the word’s meaning as the footnote here. In this example, we select the word “manipulation”.

After selecting the “manipulation” word, we move towards the “Insert” menu in which we have a “footnote” option. We select it here because we want to add the footnote to the selected word.

Here, it is displayed that the superscripted “1” is now added to the “manipulation” word. Also, there is the footnote portion that appears at the end of this page.

The footnote portion is displayed in the following. There is also “1” that is present here in this footnote. So, we can type any information here.

In this footnote portion, we type the meaning of the word that we selected in the document. We can also add the link of the citation which we added to our document by utilizing the same method. This footnote helps the users or reader to get a detailed information about the word, line, or quote that we added to the document to which the footnote is added.

Example 4: Adding Footnote on Andriod

We have a document in Google Docs that is now open on Android. We have to insert the footnote here in this document on Android. To insert the footnote, we click on the “+” insert option which is present on this document after opening this document in editing form.

As we click on “+”, some options will appear with the “Footnote” option. We select the “Footnote” here on Android.

Now, one “1” appears at the top of the page as this page is blank and one “1” is also added at the end of this page as the footnote. We can easily type any information or add any citation here in this document as a footnote.

Example 5: Adding Google Docs Footnote on a Specific Word in Android

The footnote is now added by first selecting the term and then adding the footnote in which we put the word’s definition while utilizing Google Docs on Android. On this page, the “technique” word is chosen.

After selecting the term “technique”, we then turn to the “Insert” menu which is available here in the form of a “+” icon where we have a “footnote” option. We chose it because we wish to add the footnote to the term that we have chosen.

After choosing the “Footnote” option, the term “technique” is now shown with a superscripted “1” at this place, and the footnote section can be found towards the bottom of the page. We type the meaning of the term “technique” here as the document’s footer.

Conclusion

We learned about the footnote concept in this guide with deep detail. We explored how to insert the footnote or any citation as the footnote to our document’s page in Google Docs. We inserted the footnote into our Android and Windows documents in Google Docs. We also showed how to insert the citation as the footnote to our document as well as the detail of the selected text as a footnote in Google Docs. All methods are thoroughly examined in this guide.