Title: Repeated footnotes
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Repeated footnotes

 *  Resolved [thestrengthdoc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thestrengthdoc/)
 * (@thestrengthdoc)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/repeated-footnotes/)
 * I’m using footnotes as references to quote scientific literature. If I am trying
   to repeat a citation it creates a brand new citation. For example, the reference
   associated with 1 & 2. If since last referencing them I’ve gotten up to reference
   4 and 5. When I want to reference 1 & 2 again it generates a new footnote, 6 &
   7 which are a replica of 1 & 2. Does that make sense? How do I simply show the
   superscript of 1 &2 without creating a new footnote?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/footnotes/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/footnotes/)

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 *  [nutritiously](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nutritiously/)
 * (@nutritiously)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/repeated-footnotes/#post-6870027)
 * Hi,refer to [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/combine-identical-footnotes?replies=9](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/combine-identical-footnotes?replies=9)
   
   There is a lot of demand for this fix but there has not been any response as 
   yet.
 *  [asilnep](https://wordpress.org/support/users/asilnep/)
 * (@asilnep)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/repeated-footnotes/#post-6870028)
 * Just to make sure, did you enable the setting ”Combine identical footnotes:” 
   in the setting -> footnotes styling?
 *  Plugin Contributor [David Artiss](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dartiss/)
 * (@dartiss)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/repeated-footnotes/#post-6870049)
 * This was implemented some time ago.

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/repeated-footnotes/#post-6870049)
 * Status: resolved