Footnotes for tables in LaTeX

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When I do  footnote   for a value in a table  the footnote doesn t show up  How do I get it to show up  Also  is it possible to get it to show up at the bottom of the table rather than the bottom of the page

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begin figure  H   centering   includegraphics width 1 0 textwidth  image    caption captiontext protect footnotemark   label fig    end figure   footnotetext Footnotetext

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The best way to do it without any headache is to use the   tablefootnote command from the tablefootnote package  Add the following to your preamble    usepackage tablefootnote    It just works without the need of additional tricks

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This is a classic difficulty in LaTeX   The problem is how to do layout with floats  figures and tables  an similar objects  and footnotes  In particular  it is hard to pick a place for a float with certainty that making room for the associated footnotes won t cause trouble  So the standard tabular and figure environments don t even try   What can you do    Fake it  Just put a hardcoded vertical skip at the bottom of the caption and then write the footnote yourself  use  footnotesize for the size   You also have to manage the symbols or number yourself with  footnotemark  Simple  but not very attractive  and the footnote does not appear at the bottom of the page  Use the tabularx  longtable  threeparttable x   kudos to Joseph  or ctable which support this behavior  Manage it by hand  Use  h    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  Again  use  footnotemark to install the symbol  Fragile and requires hand-tooling every instance  The footnotes package provides the savenote environment  which can be used to do this  Minipage it  code stolen outright  and read the disclaimer about long caption texts in that case             begin figure         begin minipage   textwidth                       caption Caption for LOF              Real caption footnote blah          end minipage       end figure    Additional reference  TeX FAQ item Footnotes in tables

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Use minipage environment  Here is an example      begin minipage  6cm   begin tabular   l c c        hline     A  amp  1  amp  2  footnote This is a footnote           hline     B  amp  2  amp  1         hline     C  amp  3  amp  3         hline  end tabular   end minipage

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What  dmckee said   It s not difficult to write your own bespoke footnote-queuing code   What you need to do is    Write code to queue Latex code  mdash  like a hook in emacs  very standard technique  if not every Latex hacker can actually do this right  Temporarily redefine  footnote to add a footnote macro to your queue  Ensure that the hook gets called when the table figure exits and we return to regular vertical mode    If this is interesting  I show some code that does this

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Probably the best solution is to look at the threeparttable threeparttablex packages

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If your table is already working with tabular  then easiest is to switch it to longtable  remembering to add   usepackage longtable    For example    begin longtable  ll    2014--2015  amp  Something cool footnote first footnote       2016--  amp  Something cooler footnote second footnote   end longtable

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In tables I have used  footnotetext

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A maybe not-so-elegant method  which I think is just a variation of what some other people have said  is to just hardcode it  Many journals have a template that in some way allows for table footnotes  so I try to keep things pretty basic  Although  there really are some incredible packages already out there  and I think this thread does a good job of pointing that out    documentclass article   begin document   begin table   th   renewcommand  arraystretch  1 3    adds row cushion  caption Data  level  a   and sources  b    vspace 4mm   centering  begin tabular   l l c c      hline          textbf Data    amp   textbf Description     amp   textbf Level   amp   textbf Source        hline          hline   Data1   amp   Description                                       amp   cnty  amp  USGS       hline   Data2   amp   Description                                       amp   MSA  amp  USGS       hline   Data3   amp   Description                                       amp   cnty  amp  Census        hline    end tabular   end table   footnotesize   a  The smallest spatial unit is county    b  more details in appendix A     end document

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