Combine Footnote Release For Free

Do not place multiple footnotes at the same point in your text (e.g. 1, 2, 3). If you need to cite multiple sources in one sentence, you can combine the citations into one footnote, separated by semicolons: 1. Hulme, Romanticism and Classicism; Eliot, The Waste Land; Woolf, Modern Fiction, 11.

Lastly, you can merge two documents to form one big file and then harmonize the footnote numbers. To combine the two documents, follow the steps: Insert -> Objects -> text from file. If we have more than two documents to merge, we can repeat the steps. The merged documents will have the same format.

Select the 'Insert Footnote' button and enter the footnote information. Place the cursor where the second footnote needs to be placed. Select the 'References' ribbon. Select 'Cross-reference'

The only way to reuse a footnote number is to use a cross-reference to the footnote, which will exhibit the behavior you describe.

Use of ibid. "Ibid." (the abbreviation for "ibidem", meaning "in the same place") refers to the work cited in the preceding footnote or to the preceding work within the same footnote. The term should not be used when the preceding footnote includes more than one source.

And there is no out of the box feature available in Word to let us merge multiple footnotes, you may need to manually create a new footnote and insert it to your document.

Do not place multiple footnotes at the same point in your text (e.g. 1, 2, 3). If you need to cite multiple sources in one sentence, you can combine the citations into one footnote, separated by semicolons: 1.