topic Re: Creating footnotes and superscripts for citations in storymaps in Classic Esri Story Maps Questions

Creating footnotes and superscripts for citations in storymaps

samshaw_SFEI — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:12:44 GMT

Hello,

I'm looking to create in-text superscript citations to then reference in a footer at the end of my storymap. In the footer, these will link to external URLs. Embedding the links is not a problem, but I can't figure out how to format superscript text into my storymap narrative.

I found an example of exactly what I want to accomplish online, created by an ESRI storymap expert:

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/f4cf9458cfaf4b43b62107b7c1961595

But I see no guidance as to how to create superscripts in your own storymap. What am I missing?

Many thanks,

Sam

Re: Creating footnotes and superscripts for citations in storymaps

DerekMStrout — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 20:00:05 GMT

Hi Sam (and anyone else stumbling on this question),

I'm not sure how this differs from copying and pasting a superscript character from Word, but l have successfully added them to a StoryMap using https://lingojam.com/SuperscriptGenerator . If you have found a better solution, I'd be interested to hear.

Hope this helps,
Derek

Re: Creating footnotes and superscripts for citations in storymaps

DerekMStrout — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 20:19:01 GMT

I will add that I have not tested switching themes/typefaces after adding new superscript characters this way, so they may or may not persist. Probably will want to test or have @OwenGeo weigh in before incorporating too many in case they are not supported by some Google Fonts?

Re: Creating footnotes and superscripts for citations in storymaps

AnnWu — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 07:56:43 GMT

To be honest, he didn't solve my problem. Later, I found a new superscript generator[https://superscriptgenerator.net], which supports generating superscripts for any custom letters.