Footnotes (LaTeX2e unofficial reference manual (November 2018))

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## 11 Footnotes

Place a footnote at the bottom of the current page, as here.

    Noël Coward quipped that having to read a footnote is like having
    to go downstairs to answer the door, while in the midst of making
    love.\footnote{%
      I wouldn't know, I don't read footnotes.}

You can put multiple footnotes on a page. If the footnote text becomes too long then it will flow to the next page.

You can also produce footnotes by combining the `\footnotemark` and the `\footnotetext` commands, which is useful in special circumstances.

To make bibliographic references come out as footnotes you need to include a bibliographic style with that behavior (see Using BibTeX).

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