What is the difference between footnotes and the bibliography?

Footnotes and the bibliography contain essentially the same information; however,
there are some stylistic differences.
Look at the two citations below. Can you see the differences between the two?
(N stands for footnote or endnote and B stands for bibliography)
N:
Book with one author
Footnote:
1. Wendy Doniger, Splitting the Difference (Chicago: University of
Chicago Press,
1999), 64.
Bibliography:
Doniger, Wendy. Splitting the Difference. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1999.
In the footnote:
1. The authors name appears with the first name first and the last name second
followed by a comma.
2. The first line is indented.
3. There are parentheses around the publication information.
4. Specific page numbers are included.
5. Footnotes are numbered. (Numbers are NOT repeated.)
6. Footnotes appear at the bottom of the page.
In the bibliography:
1. Authors name appears with the last name first followed by a comma, then
the first name followed by a period.
2. The second line is indented.
3. There are NO parentheses.
4. There are NO page numbers.
5. The entire bibliography appears on a separate page at the end of the paper. It
should be the last page of your paper.
6. The bibliography is arranged in alphabetical order by the authors last name.
7. The bibliography is NOT numbered.
8. Single space WITHIN an entry.
9. Double space BETWEEN entries.

What's a Bibliography?

A bibliography is an alphabetical list of citations to books, articles, and documents and

other research sources In general, a bibliography should include:
1. the authors' names
2. the titles of the works
3. the names and locations of the companies that published your copies of the
sources
4. the dates your copies were published
5. the page numbers of your sources (if they are part of multi-source volumes)
WHAT IS AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY?
Like any bibliography, annotated bibliography is an alphabetical list of citations to books,
articles, and documents and other research sources. But in an annotated bibliography, the
bibliographic information is followed by a brief description of the content, quality, and
usefulness of the source.
Sample entry of an APA style annotated bibliography:
Murray, S. (2009). The Library: An Illustrated History. Chicago: ALA Editions.
It also serves as a primary source of information for research in
library history. This..

What is Foot Note?

The footnote system of referencing uses a numeric reference to the citation in the body of
the text, with the citation details at the bottom of the page.
It looks like this.1
Footnoting should be numerical and chronological: the first reference is 1, the second is
2, and so on. The advantage of footnoting is that the reader can simply cast their eyes
down the page to discover the source of a reference which interests them.