Our note in footnote of a book
How do I designate the footnotes that are mine inside a quote?
I tried "our note", "note ours" and "remark is ours". Which one is the correct one and most commonly used? Or is there some other way?
For example:
He provides an argument for it:
"Before the Greeks, the ancient Egyptians
used it[1] in the construction of their great pyramids."
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[1] The Golden Section - note ours. <-- this is MY (drozzy's) note, not the original author's
So you can see there is my note inside a quote.
Or if I have something without a footnote.
He provides an argument for it:
"Before the Greeks, the ancient Egyptians
used it (Golden Section - note ours) in
the construction of their great pyramids."
Note where I use note ours, to clarify that it is a Golden Section.
Any help appreciated.
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I've seen the citation "(—ed.)" short for "editor," meaning "the editor added this on top of what the author wrote." The format is something like
TEXT
One of the best-known quotes from Star Trek is "Scotty, beam me up!"(1) This basic command has become a cultural meme, and occasionally a frustrated commuter's lament.
FOOTNOTE
(1)Although much like Casablanca's "Play it again, Sam," this line was never actually spoken verbatim. —ed.
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I'm assuming here that you mean you've got your own footnotes, but some of the citations from the original work contain their own footnotes from that work.
If this is the case, the first question to ask is: do you need the original footnote? If not, then remove it.
If you do need it, then I would suggest you make it your own footnote by doing something like this:
- Title of the article uses « novamente», while in the journal’s table of contents — « nuovamente»
- Shakespeare noted "That is the question".
Personally, I would use footnotes very sparingly, if at all. They can be very annoying and make your text difficult to read. In the majority of cases, turning footnotes into endnotes works much better.
Edit: Another possible solution you could try is to just include the original footnote verbatim, and then include a reference at the end to demonstrate it's from the original work. Example:
- "That is the question." (A. N. Author, 2000, pg. 150)
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