punctuation footnote or footnote punctuation?

[duchesse]

Sorry for putting it in AIBU as well but I need a quick answer! Am fine tuning a paper I've just translated and the old eyes are going funny.

When you need to put punctuation and a footnote in, do you put text1. or text.1? I think it should be the latter but the French version is all in the former.

ooh now you;'re asking

[rummages]

seems like

if at the end of a sentence then ref goes after the full stop
if in the middle of a sentence then ref goes before the comma / semicolon

does that make sense?

Ah, so

text1, text text

but

text.1

Thank you!

You should never footnote mid-sentence.

Whether you put the footnote before or after the full stop, someone will always take issue with it. I was taught to put the footnote after the full stop, but sometimes still get 'corrected'. I've seen both versions in UK journals.

to be fair I reference, not footnote - sorry if I have screwed yoour tx, duchesse

All the references in this document are in the footnotes and mixed with them, and numbered consecutively with them and I shall just keep it that way. There are some quotes that are referenced mid-sentence due to small quotes being used as parts of sentences, so referencing mid-sentence is going to happen in this document I'm afraid.

For the academic book I'm editing at the moment the editorial guidelines are for the footnote to come directly after the punctuation, with no spacing. Footnotes should 'be avoided in mid-sentence wherever possible'.

I should add that I've translated a document for the same people before, and that one had at least three with more footnote than text on them. I was always led to believe that footnotes, like telephones conversations in the 1970s, should be short, snappy and to the point, and preferably in the text if they're that crucial. It is not my document though, so I just follow orders.

pages

three pages

Must proofread before posting.