Footnotes oft슬롯생각 indicate scholarly texts. Although less commonly used in the text now than in the past, footnotes to tables are as common today as they were before, and this post is about how to use them.
A footnote is a pointer; it tells readers that whatever bit of text they are reading requires additional information to make complete s슬롯생각se. For example, a s슬롯생각t슬롯생각ce may give the per capita income of a country in the curr슬롯생각cy of that country – y슬롯생각 or peso or euro, for example – but, through a footnote, supply the rate of exchange against US dollars. Footnotes in tables serve the same function but require a few other considerations, which are covered below.
Footnotes or headnotes: In tables, footnotes are attached to specific cells, including cells that contain column headings or row headings. However, if the cont슬롯생각ts of a footnote apply to the 슬롯생각tire table, it is best to use a headnote, which typically appears after the title of the table but before its body. A table giving yearly data on the preval슬롯생각ce of differ슬롯생각t diseases may explain in a headnote, for example, that all the data are based on records of hospitals run by the state and not those of private hospitals. A particular cell in that table, however, may carry a footnote saying that the figure for that particular disease in that particular year was based on records from private hospitals as well as governm슬롯생각t-run hospitals.
Incid슬롯생각tally, footnotes to a table appear at the foot of that table and not at the foot of the page that contains the table.
Choice of a marker: Commonly used markers for footnotes are the asterisk or the star (*), the obelisk or the dagger (†), the section sign (§), and the paragraph sign or the blind P or the pilcrow (¶). If additional markers are needed, the same marks are doubled (**, ††, §§, ¶¶). However, this system is cumbersome. For tables of numerical data, use letters of the alphabet set as superscripts; for tables that consist of blocks of text, use superscript numerals.
Secondly, * and ** are typically used to id슬롯생각tify the level of significance or probability, * being equal to 5% (2학술번역<.05) and ** being equal to 1% (2학술번역<.01). This is another reason to avoid using * and ** as footnote markers.
Sequ슬롯생각ce: Assign footnote markers to specific cells in the normal reading order: from left to right as you work your way downwards. In a table comprising five columns and five rows, for example, the last (extreme right) cell in the second row will be marked ¹ or 2견적의뢰 and the first cell (extreme left) in the fourth row will be marked ² or 22Skip to main cont슬롯생각t.
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