Well I use biblatex to produce the chicago citations, used pretty widely in the humanities in N. America, and the LaTeX \cite{} commands under that setup take their optional arguments in square brackets.  The most frequent optional argument is a page number for the citation, but I also use them for prefixes to the citation, e.g. a footnote which reads &quot;See also Becker, 59&quot; would be generated like this \autocite[59][See also](Becker2010). <br>

<br>Scot<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Aidan Gauland <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:aidalgol@no8wireless.co.nz">aidalgol@no8wireless.co.nz</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">

Alan L Tyree wrote:<br>
&gt; Disable footnotes like [2010], but keep footnotes like [fn:2010]<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; The reason is that I write legal texts that have references to case law<br>
&gt; that look like: Marreco v Richardson [1908] 2 KB 584. The dates in<br>
&gt; square brackets are an essential part of the reference.<br>
<br>
Perhaps it would be best to determine for what type of writing the current way<br>
Org handles footnotes is lacking.  Is it just academic writing in general, of<br>
mostly only certain fields?  Both Alan and I have needed to use a workaround<br>
for legal writing (I&#39;m a first-year student; don&#39;t know about Alan).  What<br>
have other people had trouble footnoting/citing in Org?<br>
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--Aidan<br>
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