The phrase "a series of footnotes" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to multiple footnotes that provide additional information or references in a document.
Example: "The research paper included a series of footnotes that elaborated on the sources cited throughout the text."
Alternatives: "a collection of footnotes" or "multiple footnotes".
"Chiefly About War-Matters" includes a series of footnotes, which Hawthorne wrote in the supposed voice of the editor of the Atlantic Monthly.
For once, Alfred North Whitehead's description of western philosophy as "a series of footnotes to Plato" looks like being an understatement.
AN Whitehead called European philosophy "a series of footnotes to Plato", while Hegel claimed that Plato constituted an "epoch in philosophical history".
To reinforce his role as editor, not to say curator, of the narratives, Blake appends a series of footnotes to the text.
It has been said that all western philosophy is a series of footnotes to Plato; it would hardly be an exaggeration to say that all modern vampire fiction is haunted by Dracula.
"It would be an exaggeration," Grimes argues, "but not a great one, to say that everything after Joe Baum has been a series of footnotes to his groundbreaking ideas".
But within this miniature frame - and via a series of footnotes that include footnotes about the nature of footnotes - Baker managed to take in much of this man's mental and physical landscape.
Mr. Franzen annotates Kraus's fulminations in a series of extended footnotes.
Towles's solution is wry understatement that extends to a series of historical footnotes.
Leslie Mitchell, an English academic and biographer, seems eager to rehabilitate Bulwer-Lytton (1803-73); his book is less a straightforward biography than a series of discursive footnotes on his subject's varied career: society figure, fashion-setting novelist, successful playwright, member of Parliament and even, briefly, cabinet minister.
A series of online, "footnote" videos accompany "4:44", and are meant to shade in the origins of particular songs.
