You should know what the major topics and sub-topics are before you write. Practically all research papers have section and sub-section headings. Material irrelevant to the outline should not appear in the paper. Page presentation Each page should have one inch margins all around. All pages should be numbered, beginning with the first page of text.
Reference notes A reference note identifies the place in a work from which an idea or fact came.
You may use the American Anthropologist system or the APA system described below. Footnotes Footnotes may appear at the bottom of each page or at the end of the text before the References Cited section. Footnotes appearing at the end of the text are often called endnotes, but they are written the same way. Footnotes should be numbered sequentially over the whole paper. For more details on how to write footnotes, you should refer to the Manual of Style published by the University of Chicago Press or to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, if you are using the APA system.