Citation and Footnote
refrence by using footnotes and citations
September 22, 2025
Samantha Monty
Chair for Human-Computer Interaction, University of Würzburg

What is Footnote and Citation




Footnote :

  • gives extra information or clarification without crowding the main text
  • on will appear at the bottom of the slide or page and refrence to your text by using numbers


Citation :

  • points to a source (e.g., book, article, paper) to credit authors or support claims
  • Your code uses [@tramberend2003] which refers to an entry in a .bib (BibTeX) bibliography file
  • A bibliography section is added at the end of slides showing full citation details
  • You should add #Bibliography at the end of your markdown file to see all citations you called among contents at the end

Footnotes sample

HCI focuses on designing systems that are easy and efficient for people to use1.

One key goal is to reduce user errors and improve satisfaction2.

  • Affordance: Hints at how an object should be used3.
  1. It combines psychology, design, and computer science.

  2. Usability testing helps evaluate this.

  3. A door handle suggests pulling; a flat plate suggests pushing.

Footnotes sample

Source code :

HCI focuses on designing systems that are easy and efficient for people to use[^1].

One key goal is to reduce user errors and improve satisfaction[^2].

- **Affordance**: Hints at how an object should be used[^3].

[^1]: It combines psychology, design, and computer science.
[^2]: Usability testing helps evaluate this.
[^3]: A door handle suggests pulling; a flat plate suggests pushing.

Citations sample

  • Not quite recently published [1].
  • The bibliography is appended at the end of the deck.
  • CSL file test/decks/acm-sig-proceedings.csl was used.

Citations sample

Source code :

# Citations sample {.someclass}
-   Not quite recently published [@tramberend2003].
-   The bibliography is appended at the end of the deck.
-   CSL file *[:meta](csl)* was used.

Citation in a caption sample

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Not quite recently published [1]

Citation in a caption sample

Source code :

![Not quite recently published [@tramberend2003]](include/06-metal.png)

Bibliography

[1]
Tramberend, H. 2003. Avocado : a Distributed Virtual Environment framework. Bielefeld University.