In McGill style, what is the difference between the footnotes and the bibliography?
While your footnotes
are located at the bottom of the same page as the information you are referencing, your bibliography appears at the end of the essay. The bibliography lists all of your sources at the end of your paper, without footnote numbers, and includes the same information that you listed in the footnote. McGill style bibliographies are different from other reference lists and bibliographies because entries are grouped by type of source. The bibliography contains five main sections corresponding to different types of sources: Legislation, Jurisprudence, Government Documents, International Materials and Secondary Materials. Secondary Materials should be organized by type.
How do I use ibid and supra in the footnotes section?
These terms are used in McGill style footnotes as a shorthand to indicate where to find the complete footnote reference for a source. The first time you use a source, you provide the full bibliographic information; subsequent references to a source can be shortened using these terms.
Ibid
• Means "in the same place"
• Use Ibid if you are using the same source in footnotes that immediately follow each other.
For example,
3 Heustis v New Brunswick Electric Power Commission, [1979] 2 SCR 768, 98 DLR (3d) 622 [Heustis cited to SCR].
4 Ibid at 780-82.
5 Ibid.
Supra note
• Means "above"
• Use Supra to refer to a source you have used already, but which is not consecutive; "supra" means above, and "note" gives the number of the footnote with the bibliographic information.
For example:
1 MacMillan Bloedel Ltd v British Columbia (AG) (1996), 22 BCLR (3d) 137 at 147, 30 WCB (2d) 446 (CA) [MacMillan]; Towne Cinema Theaters Ltd v R, [1985] 1 SCR 494 at 501, 18 DLR (4th) 1 [Towne Cinema].
2 Heustis v New Brunswick Electric Power Commission, [1979] 2 SCR 768, 98 DLR (3d) 622 [Heustis cited to SCR].
3 MacMillan, supra note 1.
4 Quebec (AG) v A, 2013 SCC 5 [Eric v Lola].
5 MacMillan, supra note 1 at 140.
