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In reply to the discussion: Senator Paul Claims to Have Written Scientific Papers.... [View all]johnd83
(593 posts)18. It is weird he calls them "footnotes"
Normal people would call them "citations". I can't think of any journal that uses footnotes for citations instead of a "references cited" section. I suppose that if you had special permission to reproduce a section of an article or book that would be a footnote.
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