If you include the line: \usepackage [bottom] {footmisc} in latex preamble you get the desired footnotes behavior. It’s imperative, that the label is contained within the footnote itself, otherwise the label will refer to the section (or subsection). Footnote LaTeX splits footnotes when it can think of nothing better to do. the page length, etc. It should look like this: Text The USA¹ are country as well as the UAE², but the USA¹ are bigger. 2. Footnotes in LaTeX section headings The \footnote command is fragile, so that simply placing the command in \sections arguments isn’t satisfactory.Using \protect\footnote isn’t a good idea either: the arguments of a section command are used in the table of contents and (more dangerously) potentially also in page headers. Footnotes With this feature, the natural place for foot-notes seems to be the bottom of the page1 but look-ing at some of the results it seems best to avoid footnotes in such a layout entirely. (or [H] with the float package) to control where the float will appear, and \footnotetext on the same page to put the footnote where you want it. Footnotes whose texts are identical. This can be achieved by adding \subtitle {My-subtitle} to the document preamble. I would also like to keep the geometry of the page constant, e.g. So the margin between the top of the page and the first line of text needs to be 2cm. The same counts for the head, except for the page number. Page The footnote package provides the savenote environment, which can be used to do this. }, nous lisons le récit de sa vie. bas de page the page length, etc. footnotes Fragile and requires hand-tooling every instance. Replied on June 30, 2016. On utilise la commande \footnote, suivie, entre accolades, du texte à mettre en note.