The word "footnotes" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to notes at the bottom of a page which provide information or citations related to the content above. For example, "The author's research was supported by footnotes citing several sources."
The redactions in the drone memo's footnotes are perhaps the most disturbing, because they suggest the existence of an entire body of secret law, a veritable library of authoritative legal opinions produced by Justice Department lawyers but withheld from the American public.
A weeks-long Guardian investigation, unraveled from footnotes in Slahi's memoir and involving thousands of police and court documents plus interviews with two dozen veterans of both Guantánamo Bay and Chicago criminal justice, complicates that history.
But I must say it would be quite enough for me to imagine them being forced to read the history books they appear to think constitute their get-out-of-jail-free card, in which their flat-earthedess relegated them to mere comic footnotes.
While bestriding the macro-economic agenda, the book's sideswipes against trendy micro-economics, often in footnotes, read like a sustained in-joke against the generation for whom all problems seemed solved, except the street price of cocaine in Georgetown.
Readers would have been able then to connect the vomit with that which dogs are said to return to, "exuviae" is easily inferrable from context, and "randy pollen" is wonderful; but would many have known that "caisse-poitrine" is not only the French phrase for "rot-gut", as in cheap booze, but also – as the footnotes helpfully tell us – slang for "the active partner in homosexual fellatio"?
This is a huge book, more than 700 pages long, dense with footnotes, graphs and mathematical formulae.
But Zuley does appear by name in footnotes of the Senate armed services committee's 2008 investigation into military torture, and in footnotes in Slahi's recent best-selling memoir.
This means any books you have used when researching your assignments need to be cited, either in the footnotes to your work or at the end in a bibliography.
Up to now, companies have had the choice to record stock options only in the footnotes to their financial statements.
What, for instance, should investors make of a $14 billion item on the company's balance sheet with no explanatory footnotes, entitled "All other current costs and expenses accrued"?
Most firms report stock options granted to top executives as mere footnotes to their accounts, and these do not alter their bottom line.
