Replace the note number or remove it
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A “supra” names the earlier footnote where the full citation stands; a number naming no footnote, or naming one at or after the citing note, leads the reader nowhere.1
- 1R. 4.2(a) “Supra.”; R. 16.9 Short Citation Forms.
- 2An error: the rule in note 1 allows one form, and this is not it.
More in 4.2 “Supra” and “Hereinafter”
- Add “supra” after the short name
- Add a “hereinafter” short form
- Add a comma after the note number
- Add a comma before “supra”
- Add the footnote number to “supra”
- Add the full citation behind the “supra”
- Add the piece’s own author and title
- Italicize the registered short name
- Replace the note number or remove it