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A Bibliographic Abbreviation Needs the Notes Around It
A short reference such as “ibid.” can look like a complete citation when copied into a notebook. By itself, however, it depends on the sequence of notes in…
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A Footnote Number Can Restart, So Save Its Page as Well
A note marked “3” is not always the third note in an entire book. Numbering may restart by page, chapter, or section, and a copied fragment can lose the…