[Tugindia] refering footnotes

Steve Peter speter at dandy.net
Wed Apr 26 19:44:26 CEST 2006


On Apr 26, 2006, at 3:34 AM, Alok G. Singh wrote:

> If the footnotes are consecutive, 'ibid' will suffice. There are more
> flexible ways of referring to other footnotes (loc. cit and op. cit.,
> for example) but they are considered old-fashioned these days.

Ibid., loc. cit. and op. cit. refer to previously cited bibliographic  
references, not footnotes. So, ibid. will mean "in the most-recently  
cited work" *not* "in the most-recently referenced footnote".

Steve


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