I insert alot of quotes into my text, and I like to use footnotes for citations. My question is where should I put the footnote relative to the closing quotation mark. For example, I might write somethin like: The Court held that "the alleged counduct, if true, would be a serious violation of the statue." Should I put my footnote reference before or after the closing quotation mark?
Thanks for your help!!!!
Thanks for your help!!!!
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http://www.legalbluebook.com/Public/BlueTips.aspx
Word search "inside," and you will find the following statement:
Footnote Call and Punctuation Arrangement, 1/2/2008 (Related Section: R1.1 )
Footnote calls always go outside quotation marks. Colons and semicolons also go outside. The proper order is: quotation mark, semicolon, footnote call, colon. Commas, however, go inside quotation marks.
After - and clean up your misspellings!