You can insert a footnote or endnote in Word from the References tab of the ribbon. Both serve as supplemental information to your document.

Learn how to add references for research papers, journal articles, books, and other sources in Microsoft Word.

You can add a table of contents in Word to make your document look more professional and well-developed.

Large Word documents are often sprinkled with references to information throughout a document. You can enter them manually, but they'll be hard to maintain later. Instead, use this simple technique.