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[fn 2] For example, a common tactic is to define footnote group "fn" which shows each link as " [fn 9] " for the 9th footnote in the group="fn". A group name can be multiple words in straight double quotation marks ( group= "set xx yy" ), but a single-word name with no punctuation or other special characters, just ASCII letters and numerals ...
The long citation to support the shortened citations can either be placed as a bullet point in a separate References section after the Footnotes section; or it can be placed in the first footnote to cite the source (with the initial relevant page number[s]). The remaining footnotes will use shortened citations (these usually contain the author ...
Names for footnotes and groups must follow these rules: Names are case-sensitive. Please do not use raNdOM capitalization. Names must not be purely numeric; the software will accept something like ":31337" (which is punctuation plus a number), but it will ignore "31337" (purely numeric).
Full citations are collected in footnotes or endnotes, or in alphabetical order by author's last name, under a "references", "bibliography", or "works cited" heading at the end of the text. This style of citation was a type of referencing used on Wikipedia until September 2020, when a community discussion reached a consensus to deprecate this ...
Finally, the original footnote could be multiply repeated in the Footnotes section, each time with a new number -- in this article footnote [2] would appear five times, with five different numbers. This alternative is acceptable if done judiciously -- but not in this article. WARNING: It is not possible to test footnotes while previewing.
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.
Reference number 13 refers to the last cited work by the author R. Millan, and hence, it is the same as in number 9 (R. Millan, Art of Latin Grammar), although the page referred to is different. Reference number 14 refers to reference number 10, Language and Its Uses (because the work was published in 2000), page 66.