#footnote
- Annotation — The act of annotating and its result; a note, observation, or explanatory comment written on the margin of a text or at the footnote of a page to clarify, complete, or interpret an item of information. It represents an essential philological and didactic tool in the critical study of documents or the structural organization of study materials.
- As cited in — A word of Latin origin used as a preposition in academic, university, and bibliographical contexts to indicate the citation of an author or a text through an intermediary source; it translates literally as 'at', 'in', or 'according to' and signals that the original text was not consulted directly, but quoted from another cited work.
- Asterisk — A typographic star-shaped symbol (), used in printed matters, edited texts, or manuscripts to direct the reader to a footnote, a marginal explanation, or a supplement at the bottom of the page or end of the volume; it is also utilized in computer science as a multiplication operator or a global wildcard symbol.