# Put footnotes in blog posts!

**URL:** <https://discuss.write.as/t/put-footnotes-in-blog-posts/762>\
**Category:** Customization\
**Created:** [August 7, 2019, 3:51pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/put-footnotes-in-blog-posts/762 "2019-08-07T15:51:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 9:57am UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/put-footnotes-in-blog-posts/762/4 "2019-10-02T09:57:54Z")

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> [@ASilentDiplomat](#):
>
> [1] This is a reference to some text.

The CommonMark approach to footnotes, coming from [PANDOC](http://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#footnotes), and implemented in the cmark-gfm version of CommonMark (but not yet standardized) **requires a colon in the reference definition** :

```markdown
... Foo[^1]...

[^1]: This is a footnote.

```

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