Confluence macro for specifying a reference, source of the quotation, etc.?

Question

Is there a way in Confluence for specifying a reference to a text passage — for example, to provide the source of the quoted text, in a similar way as is done on Wikipedia, so that it's rendered like this:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet¹

[down the page]

¹ Cicero

Ideally, the subscript "1" should be an internal hyperlink

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 30 '13 at 07:27

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I believe this plugin may help: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.footnotes

The footnotes plugin allows you to quickly and easily add footnote references to your wiki pages.

You can:

Define Footnotes - Define any number of footnotes throughout your content

Display Footnotes - Display a table of footnotes anywhere in the page

Quickly move between content and footnotes with a click of the mouse

answered Oct 30 '13 at 07:27

Aziz Shaikh

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Great answer. You could also just use anchor tags & links, but that is less elegant than Aziz's answer. – MNRSullivan Oct 30 '13 at 15:06
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Great answer, but: this plugin is currently only available for Confluence 4.x, Confluence is now on 5.4.3. So there are chances that this will not work for you. – mliebelt Mar 27 '14 at 12:57

score 5 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 14 '16 at 01:42

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You can do it using anchors:

Pros:

It is native in Confluence

Cons:

It is a very manual procedure (no automatic numbering, etc.)

edited Dec 14 '16 at 01:42

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answered Apr 04 '14 at 13:56

A21z

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Broken link, I think the new link would be https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/anchors-139442.html – Alexandre Rondeau Nov 07 '16 at 17:25

Confluence macro for specifying a reference, source of the quotation, etc.?

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