footnoting
Marking source references
Footnoting is the practice of adding explanatory or citation notes at the bottom of a page.
Academic writing requires careful footnoting to credit sources.
The term extends to any act of annotating or qualifying: He kept footnoting his own stories with corrections.
Excessive footnoting can clutter a text or signal over-qualification.
Mention of a source
- sourcePoint of origin
- bibliographyList of cited works
- referenceDirecting attention elsewhere
- attributionAssigning origin or cause
cross-reference · quotation · superscript · ibid · parenthetical · sourcing · crediting · acknowledging
System of written symbols
- commentaryExplanatory remarks on events
- glossShine or annotation
- marginEdge of a page
- sidebarAncillary text box
addendum · postscript · remark · observation · editorial · correction · marginalia · interlinear
Relating to education or theory
- researchSystematic fact-finding effort
- publicationIssued written material
- journalRecord of daily events
- thesisAcademic argument requiring defense
dissertation · monograph · scholarship · methodology · documentation · archival · historiography · philology
Statement making something clear
- elucidationAct of explaining clearly
- explicationDetailed interpretive analysis
- interpretationAssigned meaning
- exegesisCritical textual interpretation
amplification · contextualization · unpacking · elaboration · qualification · disambiguation · supplementation · digression
citation
Mention of a source
- sourcePoint of origin
- bibliographyList of cited works
- referenceDirecting attention elsewhere
attribution · cross-reference · quotation · superscript · ibid · parenthetical · sourcing · crediting · acknowledging · documenting
notation
System of written symbols
- commentaryExplanatory remarks on events
- glossShine or annotation
- marginEdge of a page
sidebar · addendum · postscript · remark · observation · editorial · correction · marginalia · interlinear · apparatus
academic
Relating to education or theory
- researchSystematic fact-finding effort
- publicationIssued written material
- journalRecord of daily events
thesis · dissertation · monograph · scholarship · methodology · documentation · archival · historiography · philology
explanation
Statement making something clear
- elucidationAct of explaining clearly
- explicationDetailed interpretive analysis
- interpretationAssigned meaning
exegesis · amplification · contextualization · unpacking · elaboration · qualification · disambiguation · supplementation · digression · aside
- Editing Tasksproofreading, proofread, spellcheck, revise, edit
- referringciting, mentioning, alluding, indicating, quoting
- annotationnoting, glossing, marking, labeling, commenting
- historiographyhistoriography, historiographer, secondary sources, historical interpretation, historical analysis
- explainingexplaining, clarifying, elaborating, elucidating, expounding
- paperworkinvoice, permit, documents, license, filing
footnotingbody text
Document's main prose
foregrounding · main · primary · central · headlining
footnotingoriginal composition
Freshly created artistic piece
creating · originating · original · composing · primary
note, foot, footnote, annotation, footnotes, endnote, annotated, annotator, footnoted