Footnotes, citations and bibliography

#Footnotes

/footnote, ⌘⌥F (CtrlAltF) or Footnote in the text menu inserts a footnote at the cursor and opens its text.

• The notes appear numbered under Footnotes at the end of the page. Numbers follow the order in the text and update by themselves when you move, copy or delete markers.
• Clicking a number jumps to its note, ↩ jumps back. Double-click the number (or press ⌘⌥F with a footnote selected) to edit or remove it.
• Notes are plain text; web addresses in them become links.
• Footnotes also show on shared and published pages, in print and in the HTML export, and search finds their text.
• In the Markdown export they become [^1] with [^1]: text at the end; the import reads them back – including Obsidian's short form ^[text].

#Citations and bibliography

For papers, theses and research notes you cite sources right in the text:

The text then reads "(Müller 2021)", "(Müller & Schmidt 2021, p. 12)" or "(Müller et al. 2021)"; hovering shows the full reference. /bibliography inserts a bibliography: all works cited on the page in an APA-like style, updating itself as you cite – also on shared and published pages.

• The bibliography belongs to the workspace; guests don't see it. Each citation carries its details along, so copies, exports and shared pages are complete without the list.
• Zotero: export a collection from Zotero as BibTeX or CSL JSON and import it in the dialog.
• In the Markdown export citations become Pandoc citations ([@key], [@key, p. 12]) and the bibliography a section of its own – so a text can be processed further with Pandoc.