I am editing a manuscript that often quotes from a source on one page, then quotes from the same source again a few pages after the first instance. Can I use ibid in the footnote, or should I reproduce the entire citation in the footnote? In other words: can I trust the readers to remember what the last citation was? Or should I save them the trouble of flipping back to the last footnote in case they want to look up the source?
Notes: The CMoS says, "Ibid refers to a single work cited in the note immediately preceding [the quote]" (16.47). It also says ibid may be used multiple times within the same footnote (16.48).
2006-11-14
05:46:26
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