I want to submit an article to an academic journal and they require double-spacing of both text and footnotes. I have figured out how to do this (“Override text and notes formatting”) and it works fine for PDF, but for word (docx) the text is double-spaced, but the footnotes stubbornly remain single-spaced.
How do get this result?
Hi.
It could be a Word specific thing. Sometimes people have issues with Word (secretly) reformatting elements as per its own styles.
You could try and open your docx file in LibreOffice (free / opensource). If the footnotes are then fine, you’ll know it is Word doing that. (In which case you’d have to tell Word how you want them footnotes formatted.)
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You could also try this : (Screenshot from the Windows version)
Thanks! I opened the file in OpenOffice, which I think is equivalent to LibreOffice, and get the same result. The option to flatten footnotes just makes the footnotes into endnotes, also single spaced, so no dice. I’m stuck!
Try a compile to RTF (which is Scrivener’s native format) and if that works, convert it to docx afterwards. (LibreOffice handles the conversion well – at least the other way around from my experience. Perhaps even Word does.)
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Word footnotes have a style applied to them by default. The style is called ‘Footnote Text’. (The footnote numbers themselves, in-text and in the footnote, are styled by a character style called ‘Footnote Reference’.)
So, if you have Word, you can just use Format > Style…, select the ‘Footnote Text’ style and Modify the line-spacing to double. (Or, since that style is based on the Normal paragraph style, you could in theory set Normal to double line space and the Footnote Text style should inherit that.)
If you don’t have Word, probably there is something similar to tweak in freeware word processors.
[Word “listens” to styles that come out of Scrivener but I don’t see a way to get Scrivener to apply a special (paragraph) style to footnotes.]
One wonders why journals want double spacing anymore. No one is printing these things out and annotating them by hand anymore!
Thanks! I will bear this in mind if I try again. I’m also puzzled by the double-space requirement in this day and age. The submission is a long shot anyway, and will probably be rejected for other reasons, so I’m just going to submit it as is–or drop the idea. I prefer to self-publish anyway…
By chance did you look in Word at paragraph the style definition for “Footnote Text” as suggested by @gr ? Or of that style name not assigned to footnotes, view the style name used.
My hunch changing that to double space in the Word style is the easiest fix as it’s the style that controls it, I’m pretty sure.
I guess I’m just curious and don’t want to slow you down on your submission.
PS. Heavy Word user, and author about Word, for decades but not so much in the current decade or so. Even used Scrivener to write a “how to” for Word!
I’ve only got a version of word on my mac that allows for viewing files–no style info available. In OpenOffice, footnotes appear to have no style at all. I can change the footnote style to double-space and then manually go through the document, applying the style to footnotes. That works, but is not very convenient!
Sorry, no time for further troubleshooting…
With Word, a simple fix.
