On 02/20/2012 06:43 PM, Mirosław Zalewski wrote: > On 20/02/2012 at 23:57, wernerjvienna <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Some journal just demand to use [6-8] or [10-12] respectively in those >> cases, what is not useful for a html document of course. So my post above >> concerns only the problem of formatting foot- and end-notes and has nothing >> to do with reference manager software. > LibreOffice Writer is not capable of doing that. Either if you are using > built- > in bibliographic feature, which is lacking some of basic functionality, or if > you are using foot- or endnotes as references. > > As student of sociology, I mostly deal with social sciences and I am used to > authors who recklessly confuse footnotes, endnotes and bibliographic > references. But I would expect scientists from natural, physical and formal > sciences to be more strict. > > Footnote is a place to add some further information, or comments, from > author. > They are not important enough to include in main text, but may be valuable > for > some of readers. Or they are simply funny remarks, which some people think > should be avoided in scientific text. This is also place for comments from > translator or publisher (although comments from translator/publisher are > indicated in other way than comments from author). The point is, that reader > may skip reading footnotes without loosing any of author main ideas. > > Endnotes are footnotes put after the main part of the book or, less often, at > the end of a chapter, instead of bottom of the page. Some publishers prefer > it > this way. If text in footnote is quite long (I have seen footnotes spanning > across two and more pages), perhaps it is better to use endnotes instead. > > References contains information about sources and further reading about some > topic. These may be either full bibliographic entry (which has many > disadvantages in texts longer than few pages) or unique identifiers which > expand full bibliographic entry in bibliography, near end of a book. > > These things should be distinguished. Yet, due to historical reasons and > habit, they are not. Many people place references in footnotes. Part of the problem is that different editorial styles mandate references be placed in footnotes rather than in a separate reference (endnote) section at the end of the work. Thus the confusion between references, footnotes, and endnotes. Strictly speaking there is a difference between footnote/endnotes and references in terms of content and purpose. References strictly have only bibliographic information. > > In that Wikipedia article footnotes contains almost only references. Only > footnote 14 contains what footnotes should contain -- commentary. Footnote 13 > contains references to works expanding topic, so they may be treated as > either > footnote, or reference (depending on writing style). > > I am still sure that you are using wrong function (although it may provide > something that *looks like* what you want to achieve). I still can't think of > a single reason why anyone would want to insert multiple footnotes (multiple > commentaries) at one place. Why don't just join them, if they refer to > exactly > the same part of text? > > Although I still agree with you, that Writer is lacking some functionality in > that area and it could (and perhaps should!) be improved.
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