# Footnotes - Links in square brackets, like on Wikipedia \[plugin\]

**URL:** <https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/footnotes-links-in-square-brackets-like-on-wikipedia-plugin/6893>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [January 20, 2022, 3:30pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/footnotes-links-in-square-brackets-like-on-wikipedia-plugin/6893 "2022-01-20T15:30:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![blog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/439d5e/32.png) [@blog](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/blog)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2022, 3:30pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/footnotes-links-in-square-brackets-like-on-wikipedia-plugin/6893/1 "2022-01-20T15:30:04Z")

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hello community,  
Can you please tell me if there is a plugin that does this in Jekyll?

 ![img-2022-01-20-18-27-05](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/jekyllrb/original/2X/8/80a3314e1b67795d00c25440cd380d7c085b5539.png)

I need to put a link [1] and make a footnote at the bottom of the page with this link, like on Wikipedia.  
The link itself [1] is an anchor that leads to the section at the bottom of the page (References)

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**Author:** ![fabiomux](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/fabiomux/32/2656_2.png) [@fabiomux](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/fabiomux)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 10:59am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/footnotes-links-in-square-brackets-like-on-wikipedia-plugin/6893/2 "2022-01-21T10:59:26Z")

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They are called _footnotes_, a feature interpreted by the Kramdown engine:

```auto
This is my content[^footnote1] [^footnote2]

text
text

[^footnote1]: This is a link to [Jekyll forum](https://talk.jekyll.rb)
[^footnote2]: Simple note

```

To add the brackets use the CSS styles:

```css
a.footnote:before {
  content: "[";
}
a.footnote:after {
  content: "]";
}

```

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**Author:** ![blog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/439d5e/32.png) [@blog](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/blog)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 2:19pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/footnotes-links-in-square-brackets-like-on-wikipedia-plugin/6893/3 "2022-01-21T14:19:55Z")

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Thanks for the help. I don’t even need a plugin. Jekyll can do a lot out of the box.

I can also place href in a footnote:

```auto
Text[^1].

Another text[^2].

My text3.[^my_footnote].

[^1]: [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penguin).
[^2]: [Source 2](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penguin).
[^my_footnote]: [This also works fine](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penguin).

```