: Is it okay to create a remote bibliography or works cited page? I'm currently designing a print flyer and I'm using quite a few statistics and a few quotes. Since space is at a minimum, and

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The key question is, "Okay to whom?"

Giving proper footnotes is a question of ethics and academic standards, not law. You're not breaking any law if you don't give any footnotes at all.

There are (at least) three reasons to give footnotes: 1. To avoid plagiarism by clearly indicating what is your own material and what you took from someone else. 2. To establish credibility by showing where you got your information, that you didn't just make everything up. 3. To allow readers to easily further research the topic by going back to your sources.

I think that all of those criteria are met almost as well by a "remote bibliography" as by including the footnotes on the flyer. The most questionable would be #2 . If, say, you're producing a flyer where you make some highly controversial claims about political or social topics, and you want to make clear that when you say "numerous studies prove ..." that you aren't just making this up, then putting the footnotes on the flyer would be better for establishing credibility.

One possible option would be to include "abbreviated citations" in the text and then give the reference to the full citation. Like instead of saying "Studies prove that ... [1]" and giving the footnote elsewhere, say "Studies done at the University of Melbourne and the Centers for Disease Control prove that ... [1]". Or instead of just saying, "The moon is made of green cheese [2]", say, "According to Dr Frederick Stover, the moon is made of green cheese [2]", etc.

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