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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)
A citation is placed wherever appropriate in or after the sentence. If it is at the end of a sentence, it is placed before the period, but a citation for an entire block quote immediately follows the period at the end of the block since the citation is not an actual part of the quotation itself.
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.
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)
It's usually at the end of the whole article. If you print the article to read it, the "footnotes" will be at the end. 2. Since footnote really specifies location, you may (in a print document) have footnotes that are explanatory, and differnetiated from citations to the litaerature.
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:
For instance, it could encourage all footnotes after punctuation as now, but also note that footnotes at the end of a paragraph are ambiguous and to be used with caution. Gimmetrow 22:24, 9 April 2007 (UTC) The problem is that the American style may be more common, but it destroys information the British style preserves.
Use of italics should conform to Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Text formatting § Italic type. Do not use articles (a, an, or the) as the first word (Economy of the Second Empire, not The economy of the Second Empire), unless it is an inseparable part of a name (The Hague) or of the title of a work (A Clockwork Orange, The Simpsons).