After i added \footnote{exampletext} after captions, the exampletest just appear in each column. I tried something like \footnote{extra text extra text \cite{key} extra text} but the output format of the \cite command will not be the same. For example, if is constructed like this blah blah blah blah\footnote{blah blah \label{footnote_1}} would you refer to it using this line? I have used the following no numbering command for footnotes: And voffset is causing you trouble. How do i refer to a footnote? Heres a link to the page on google books as you can see, the dagger is used (here) at a secondary level from the main set of glosses, which used suprascript letters. Latex will add a superscript number at the position in the running text where you used \footnote, and will add the same number plus at the bottom of the page. There is a difficulty when i want to include a reference within a longer footnote containing extra text. As mentioned in note \ref{footnote_1}. · the dagger, which sometimes looks like a cross, has long been used to as a foot- or sidenote. · maybe this is an easy one, but i struggled with this now too long :) i want to have a footnote in a caption of a figure, see the example. Try \geometry{ a4paper, left=20mm, right=20mm, headheight=4cm, top=5. 5cm, bottom=4. 5cm, footskip=4cm } the headers can be made to overlap by putting them in the centre of the page in a box with zero width. In a document, i am using \usepackage[style=mla,babel=hyphen,backend=biber]{biblatex} together with the \footcite command, and everything is perfect. Heres an example from 1582, though the practice is much older than this: (the numbers are confusing because i use superscripted numbers for citations. ) Your question is actually about two things: How to produce a footnote, and how to embed a citation to a reference (here: I am using \columns in beamer to show two pictures. 17 is it possible to define different \headerheight for head and foot respectively? How can i make latex use symbols (*, †, ‡, and so on) instead of numbers to mark footnotes? However, now all my footnotes appear wit. \begin {figure} [!ht] \caption {a figure caption\footnote. Or does it have two variables to control the heights of foot and head respectively? Now i want to show all of the exampletext in the · your geometry set up is a bit wrong. Footnotes are produced with the standard latex command \footnote{}. An url) into such a note. \let\thefootnote\relax\footnote{some text} to insert a footnote without number (just once). For example, there is a logo image in the header which needs a large \headerheight and only text is in foot which needs a small \headerheight. The dagger in this case is to the note on the far right by. Margins need to be large given what you have in the header and footer.