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Historical reasons of footnotes' sequence symbols
As @Mahnax answered to this question, the footnotes' sequence symbols is as follows (Chicago Manual of Style Online):
* (asterisk; but do not use if p values occur in the table; see 3.78)
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Do footnoting superscripts go inside or outside punctuation?
When using superscripts to indicate a footnote, do these fall inside or outside adjacent punctuation? If there is an answer, is that answer applicable worldwide, or just to specific regions or ...
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What are footnotes called when they aren’t in the footer?
What do you call the little asides found in the margins of books instead of at the bottom of the page?
I don’t mean the stuff scribbled in by hand, but rather the printed matter used by tasteful ...
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Where to place a footnote mark [duplicate]
In academic writing, are there any rules on where a footnote mark should be placed? From the papers that I've read, footnote marks are almost always put at the end of a sentence, after a period. But ...
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dagger †, double dagger ‡, what's next? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
When a dagger is used to indicate a note, must it come after an asterisk?
Historical reasons of footnotes' sequence symbols
Say you have 3 footnotes on one page where ...
