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 state quarters report look at footnote 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