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A Footnote marker is displayed in the article's content as a bracketed, superscripted number, letter, or word. Examples shown respectively are: [1] [a] [Note 1]. This footnote label is linked to the full footnote. Clicking on the footnote marker jumps the page down to the footnote and highlights the citation.
In publishing, a note is a brief text in which the author comments on the subject and themes of the book and names supporting citations.In the editorial production of books and documents, typographically, a note is usually several lines of text at the bottom of the page, at the end of a chapter, at the end of a volume, or a house-style typographic usage throughout the text.
Sometimes the article is more readable if multiple citations are bundled into a single footnote. For example, when there are multiple sources for a given sentence, and each source applies to the entire sentence, the sources can be placed at the end of the sentence, like this.
This template creates a short author–date citation in a footnote. It allows you to link inline citation using Harvard citations (a form of short citations using parenthetical references) to their corresponding full bibliographic citations. Template parameters [Edit template data] This template prefers inline formatting of parameters. Parameter Description Type Status Author last name 1 Last ...
See also help:footnotes for a concise manual and examples. The basic use of the ref and note templates is just choosing a one word descriptive <name> for your reference and: put {{ref | <name>}} where you want the footnote number to be; put a numbered list at the bottom of your document # {{note | <name>}}, for automatic numbering of your ...
As a result, this system is popular with people who want to manually number or format the superscripted footnote markers for citations and/or explanatory notes. For example, using this system, you can easily produce a footnote that looks like this † or That. For more information about using this method, see Template:Ref/doc.
You can use one of the following templates to generate these links: {} – generates a "Further information" link {} – generates a "See also" link; For example, to generate a "See also" link to the article on Wikipedia:How to edit a page, type {{See also|Wikipedia:How to edit a page}}, which will generate:
The Footnotes system shows two elements on the page: A Footnote marker is displayed in the article's content as a bracketed, superscripted number, letter, or word. Examples shown respectively are: [1] [a] [Note 1]. This footnote label is linked to the full footnote. A Footnote displays the full note or reference.