<p>I know a lot of you here have received the NSF fellowship so my question is detected toward you. I am writing my research proposal and im finding it hard to fit everything on two pages. I was just wondering if it would be alright to put my references as footnotes?</p>
<p>As long as you keep within the formatting instructions, giving references as footnotes should be fine. But does it actually save space to give references as footnotes? I assume that the 10pt font and 100% line spacing minimum applies to footnotes as well.</p>
<p>Double column the references</p>
<p>Make the references smaller than the rest - I think I used 12 pt font with the rest of the paper and 8 or 10 pt font with the references.</p>
<p>Also, limit the amount of references you use - I think I only used 4 or 5.</p>