The phrase "include a footnote" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are referencing or citing another source in a document and want the reader to refer to a footnote for further information. For example: "The study found that the number of participants decreased over time; however, a more detailed analysis can be found in the footnote included at the end of the document."
Since 1996, the Financial Accounting Standards Board has required companies to include a footnote in their annual reports disclosing what options would cost, using one or another widely accepted formula, if they were charged as an employment expense.
TRENTON — The account of Derek Jeter's pursuit of 3,000 hits would be incomplete if it did not include a footnote about Jeter's two-night detour through this city for the most talked-about minor league rehabilitation appearance in the tristate area.
Random House, on our own behalf and on behalf of our author, regrets the confusion," the publisher said in a statement, adding to the New York Times that the relevant chapter will now include a footnote making clear that Barry is not the man's real name.
But while the story, reminiscent of some of the bad fan fiction that populates Tumblr's website, was fun to read, the release notes forgot to include a footnote about what actually changed in version 4.3.1.
As such, an anti-infective treatment path statement was also revised to include a footnote that negative diagnosis is never completely certain.
The debt disclosure included a footnote that said the figure did not reflect off-balance-sheet and contingent obligations.
Consider a writer like the nineteenth-century clergyman John Hodgson, whose multipart "A History of Northumberland" included a footnote running well over a hundred pages.
He noted that in each case he included a footnote to the works he used, and he sometimes praised the books in his text.
He adds that this 2004 opinion "included a footnote to say that all interrogation methods that earlier opinions had said were legal were still legal.
Judge Sullivan's ruling included a footnote that "there is evidence in the record that there isn't an explanation for this change," and that the revised environmental impact statement "was completely politically driven and result oriented".
But then, as if hedging his bets, Bishop has included a footnote: "Barack Obama presented himself early in the 2008 campaign as the man-of-the-earth candidate, the politician able and eager to speak to — and listen to — all sides".
