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A footnote comes always after the punctuation. This is just a matter of style. The position of the footnote after the period does not imply that it refers to the first sentence too. The idea that every sentence should have a footnote is very bad. Don't do this. --Ligulem 09:28, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
The explanatory footnotes and the citations are then placed in separate sections, called (for example) "Notes" and "References", respectively. Another method of separating explanatory footnotes from footnoted references is using {} for the explanatory footnotes. The advantage of this system is that the content of an explanatory footnote can in ...
A content note generally contains useful information and explanations that do not fit into the primary text itself. Content notes may be given as footnotes or endnotes or even a combination of both footnotes and endnotes. Such content notes may themselves contain a style of parenthetical referencing, just as the main text does.
Shortened footnotes; Citations can also be placed as external links, but these are not preferred because they are prone to link rot and usually lack the full information necessary to find the original source in cases of link rot. In cases where citations are lacking, the template {} can be added after the statement in question.
The remaining footnotes will use shortened citations (these usually contain the author's last name, the date of publication, and the relevant page number[s]). A less common approach is to attach a {{rp|page}} right after the footnote marker replacing the "page" with the appropriate page number or numbers. For example:
Inline citations are usually small, numbered footnotes like this. [1] They are generally added either directly following the fact that they support, or at the end of the sentence that they support, following any punctuation. When clicked, they take the reader to a citation in a reference section near the bottom of the article.
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I believe that footnotes go after commas, periods, exclamation points, question marks, colons, semicolons, and closing quotation marks, but before dashes, spaces, and closing parentheses. Other punctuation marks would probably have to be dealt with on a case-by-case basis. —Simetrical (talk • contribs) 01:12, 19 July 2006 (UTC)