Footnote formatting In general it s considered preferable to combine multiple citations of a single reference into one footnote This is discussed at Wikipedia Manual of Style footnotes Reference name naming a ref tag so it can be used more than once In this article I did that recently with the 50 State Quarters Report look at footnote 7 here but after that another editor separated them out again here Also it s better to link to the reference from the name of the reference being cited like I did rather than have the link be a separate unlabelled number like the other editor did So I think the footnotes should be combined again the way I did it Anyone else have an opinion on this Talk