Help:Shortened footnotes

Shortened footnotes are a mix of standard footnotes and parenthetical referencing (Harvard). They use in-text citations that link to a shortened reference in a list and a separate full reference list. The shortened reference may link to the full reference.

Shortened footnotes are used for more reasons: they let the editor to cite many different pages of the same source without having to copy the entire citation; they avoid the inevitable clutter when citations are inserted into the source text.

Overview

In this short example, note that an in-text cite such as [1] links to the shortened citation in the Notes list, which in turn links to the long citation in the References list: 

The brontosaurus is thin at one end.{sfn|Elk|1972|p=5} Then it becomes much thicker in the middle.{sfn|Elk|1972|p=6}
The Norwegian Blue Parrot will not move if its feet are nailed to the perch.{sfn|Praline|1969|p=12} Its metabolic processes are a matter of interest only to historians.{sfn|Praline|1969|p=16}
==Notes==
{reflist|2}

==References==
{refbegin}
*{cite book |last=Elk |first=Anne |title=[[Anne Elk's Theory on Brontosauruses]] |date=November 16, 1972 |ref=}
*{cite book |last=Praline |first=Eric |title=[[Dead Parrot sketch]] |date=December 7, 1969 |ref=}
{refend}

The brontosaurus is thin at one end.[1] Then it becomes much thicker in the middle.[2] The Norwegian Blue Parrot will not move if its feet are nailed to the perch.[3] Its metabolic processes are a matter of interest only to historians.[4]

Notes

  1. ↑ Elk 1972, p. 5.
  2. ↑ Elk 1972, p. 6.
  3. ↑ Praline 1969, p. 12.
  4. ↑ Praline 1969, p. 16.

References

  • Elk, Anne (November 16, 1972). Anne Elk's Theory on Brontosauruses.
  • Praline, Eric (December 7, 1969). Dead Parrot sketch.

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