English Language & Usage Asked by Juozas Rimas on February 2, 2021
I cannot find the answer to the following question in CMOS or on this forum.
I am providing a quote from source No 1 (marked with a footnote) which contains a quote from source No 2:
‘As Leibniz puts it, “[Music] is ‘the secret exercise of arithmetic of a soul which does not know it is counting”.’
How should the superscript numbers and the footnotes themselves be placed on the page?
Option A, looks cluttered:
In-text:
‘As Leibniz puts it, “[Music] is ‘the secret exercise of arithmetic of a soul which does not know it is counting”FOOTNOTE1.’FOOTNOTE2
At the bottom of the page:
SOURCE2
SOURCE1
Option B, unclear which part of the quote is from SOURCE1 and which from SOURCE2:
In-text:
‘As Leibniz puts it, “[Music] is ‘the secret exercise of arithmetic of a soul which does not know it is counting”.’FOOTNOTE
At the bottom of the page:
SOURCE1; SOURCE2.
Would you propose other options? Thank you!
Multiple footnotes attached to the same place in the text tend to be confusing and are best avoided, even if they are not explicitly prohibited by whatever manual of style one is following. Moreover, in scholarly work, one is expected to make it clear in one's citations whether one has actually consulted a particular source oneself, or one knows about it only indirectly, through another source. In this case, it appears that the OP has consulted only one of the two sources involved: the one that contains the whole sentence that begins with 'As Leibniz'. The proper thing to do is, therefore, to have only one footnote, attached to that sentence as a whole, and in that footnote provide the bibliographical data about the source from which that sentence is quoted, followed by a word like quoting and then the bibliographical data for the embedded quotation.
Answered by jsw29 on February 2, 2021
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