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==Indenting and line-splitting==

A very long footnote can be indented and line-split, as in the following example that uses [[Template:Cite_book]], withshowing a long URL for a webpage from [[Google Books]]:

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==Deferring details==

Another major technique for clarifyclarifying text, withcontaining many footnotes, is to defer the footnote details to later parts of the article, such as using named ref-tags and putting "see: External links" for URLs. For example, listing 3 footnotes:

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<pre> In digital imaging, a pixel&lt;ref name=MD/>&lt;ref name=AD/>&lt;ref name=DE/>

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In the above example, the 3 footnotes are reduced to just short ref-name tags at first, then later expanded to show more details. However, they defer the extreme details for publisher, ISBN, and webpage-URL links to be contained as entries under "External links". Using that advanced method, no publisher names, ISBN numbers or long URL names appear in the upper article text for those 3 footnotes.

Each full footnote is coded within 3 lines of text, even though indented and pinpointing the page numbers. The tedious details are all deferred into the section "External links" (or "References") at the bottom of the article. TheThat separation is possible by repeating the author name and title at the bottom. So, full footnotes become a 3-line indentation, rather than the typical 6-9 line blobs that clutter typicalsome article text.

==Advancement shock==