Footnotes in Medium

How to place footnotes and references in your Medium post

You can add citations in medium by using superscript numbers and notes that can appear below the numerical reference. But as much as they look like traditional footnotes, you are not making true footnotes. Since Medium doesn’t generate actual footnotes, you can achieve this by visually making what looks like a footnote. Your goal, however, is to give your readers annotations about your sources. So while Medium currently doesn’t generate true footnotes like Microsoft Word, you achieve this by making a super-scripted number (that you keep track of) and then produce the same super-scripted number below it, in a separate section, with the footnote annotation next to that number. (See the final note at the end of this posting to get a few resources about what to put in a footnote reference.

Thanks to Brian Dixon, on Medium, for posting an initial how-to piece on Footnotes. Here is the link. Because I’m a visual leaner, I made this piece for myself so that I could place Medium footnotes with greater ease.

To make your first visual representation of a footnote in Medium, decide where you want to place your first reference number. Let’s say that you want footnote #1 to be right at the end of a sentence. There, type the carrot symbol (^ character) [As a note, on a PC keyboard, the carrot symbol is the shift of the number 6 key on the top row of your keyboard.] Immediately follow the carrot symbol with the number you want (in this example, type “1” and then tap your space key…