Combine identical footnotes

It’s in the settings:

Settings -> footnotes styling -> Combine identical footnotes

I set this to Yes and now the references look like I showed above. What I need is this:

7 ? Gregory A. Brent. Thyroid Function Testing. 2010;13: 253

where index 7) will be shown 6 times in text itself.

Hi Matus,

this is an interesting proposal.
My logic in this was, that footnotes are always numbered in ascending order so you should in theory never see an 8 after a 12 if you get my thinking here. So assigning the same footnote number throughout the text makes sense in the references container at the end, but not necessarily in the text.

I’ll note this as a feature request and we’ll see if we can implement this suggestion.

Mark,

Conventionally, footnotes are organized as Matus is requesting, where references are repeated according to their appearance throughout the text, and in numerical order in the references container (See almost any Wikipedia entry), although in some cases a text will sort references alphabetically by author in the equivalent of the references container, and they would subsequently start out of order in the text; but there would still not be two numbers (indexes) assigned to a single reference in either location.

In any case, I would like to echo Matus’ request that multiples of a reference be treated conventionally, but also make a couple additions:

1) Currently, only the first instance of a reference acts as an anchor, and clicking a multiple of it does nothing. It would be better to assign a sub-index for each multiple, where the initial is 1a, and then multiples thereof 1b, 1c, etc. So that in the references container, reference 1 and its multiples would be displayed as 1. ^ a b c Reference. where the footnote_plugin_link would therefore be disabled and each sub-index would return the user to the appropriate anchor in the post (like Wikipedia’s citation system).

2) Referencing a footnote with a multiple should be much easier than having to enter the entire reference again. Unfortunately, because references can not be numbered manually (e.g. [ref data-index=”1″]Reference[/ref], there is no way to refer back to them, e.g. [ibid data-index=”1″]. The Footnotes for WordPress plugin actually allows for this with the addition of a [backref] shortcode (which uses the deprecated “name” HTML attribute for the identifier), but does not provide unique sub-indexes for each multiple of a reference, so it also treats the first instance as the anchor to return to.

So far, this is the most promising footnotes plugin I have used, so I hope you continue to develop and improve it.

Thank you for your time.

Hi,

My client ask me for this option too, he said that this structure is universal in science, when you have the same reference description, it have to have the same number.

Hope you can make this option possible.

Thanks

Hi,

I’ve found a temporary solution to combine identical references in the same number.

The first time i repeat the reference i put this code with the reference number, but if you make some changes to the post, you have to verify if the numeration still equal.
<sup><a href="#footnote_references_container">(1)</a></sup>

Additionally I forced the color for these links to look like the original ones:
sup a { color:#444 !important; }

For now, for me, this solution resolves the situation.

Thanks for the workaround, Andre.

I’m echoing also this request. Repeating index numbers in the text is the scientific standard.

Another standard, is to show the index numbers like this: [1-4] instead of: [1][2][3][4]

Thanks!
Mor

Hi Mark,

When are you planning to implement these suggestions or offer some temporary solution?

The suggested modification above (by Mali) is actually the only way to reference correctly. It would be a very valuable (in my opinion essential) change and this plugin could be solution to all scientific-based sites.

Morsagmon’s suggestion can also be used as a standard but is not necessary as it adds greatly to the complexity. My suggestion is to keep it simple and Mali’s suggestion is quite enough for this plugin to be useful in the scientific sites.

Basically references should look something like this:

Text ¹ text ² text ³ text ¹ text ⁴ text ^2,4

REFERENCES
1.
2.
3.
4.

Thanks
Castou