Monday, December 21, 2009

If I refer to the same page twice, can I use the same footnote number?

eg.


';blah blah blah'; 1. ......... ';whatever, whatever, whatever'; 1.





1 Bob Dickens, Boredom and Insanity, New York: Penguin Press, 2008, p 62.If I refer to the same page twice, can I use the same footnote number?
No, use 2. If the second footnote immediately follows the first, save yourself a lot of work and put 2. Ibid. If the third footnote is from the same work but a different page, put 3. Ibid., p. 67. Use Ibid. ONLY if the cites successively follow each other.





In some medical and psychological journals, ';1'; would be used throughout article to refer to writer and work x, 2 would refer to writer and work y, etc. But it sounds like you're doing a basic college research paper, so follow the first method, and number the footnotes successively.If I refer to the same page twice, can I use the same footnote number?
Yes

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