Footnote punctuation

[Nancy Allison <maker -at- verizon -dot- net>]

Where do you insert the footnote number in the text -- what rule governs 
placement? Inside punctuation, outside it, inside some but not other 
punctuation?

The Chicago Manual of Style has 439 pages on notes (ok, I exaggerrate, 
but not by much). Do you have a rule of thumb, or can you point me to a 
citation?

In each set of example, which punctuation would you use? (Please pretend 
the number 1 is a  proper superscript in each case):

Problem I:

. . . a list of risk elements.1

. . . a list of risk elements1.


Problem II:

. . . a list of risk elements:1

. . . a list of risk elements1:


Problem III:

". . . a list of risk elements."1

". . . a list of risk elements1."

". . . a list of risk elements.1"


Thank you for your help.


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