Re: Position of footnote superscripts

In article <1190153360.136009.274570@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Cece <ceceliaarmstrong@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I do know of one book that used plain andnote suoerscripts for simple
source identification endnotes and endnote superscripts with actual
five-pointed stars next to them to indicate a endnote that had more
information, the type that couild have been another sentence, or
paragraph, in the text except that it didn't really fit the flow.

In one of the more-standard styles for computer-science papers, the
convention is to use references in endnotes, identified in the main
body by text in [brackets], and non-reference notes in footnotes with
plain superscript numerals (or, very occasionally, asterisks and
daggers). This is similar to the legal style, which uses full in-line
citations in (parentheses) and footnotes for digressions or additional
information (and occasionally /obiter dicta/). One difference in the
Computer Science style is that a reference may be used as a noun in
its own right: whereas a social scientist might write, "According to
Brown (1988), the mome raths outgrabe", a computer scientist might
instead write, "We used the MIMSY algorithm from [3]."

(There is some disagreement on the precise formulation of the text
used to indicate a reference. Some venues prefer numbering the
references in order of appearance, whereas others prefer numbering the
references in alphabetical order by author and year of publication.
Still others do not use, or at least do not require, numbers at all,
so some authors will use a "Harvard Lite" style that abbreviates the
author(s) and year, as in [LMKQ87] or [KR78].)

~~~~~ wavy lines ~~~~~
The excuses by which Harvard style became tolerated and then
established are no longer with us (computers do all the work for us),
but in those fields where it is normally used, it now so entrenched as
to be impossible to dislodge, no matter how unreadable it makes papers
in those disciplines.

-GAWollman

--
Garrett A. Wollman | The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are
wollman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx| nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry
Opinions not those | grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape
of MIT or CSAIL. | our history. - S.J. Gould, Ten Thousand Acts of Kindness
.

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