org-mode does indeed support footnotes[fn:1], but I was recently saddened to find that Github doesn't render them (it does render more basic org-mode features, though).
org-ref[fn:2] has extensive support for for citations and is explicitly designed for scientific papers and output to LaTeX.
> org-mode does indeed support footnotes[fn:1], but I was recently saddened to find that Github doesn't render them (it does render more basic org-mode features, though).
GitHub uses this org-ruby project[1] to render Org files. If someone loves Org and knows Ruby too (I don't), please open PR's on that repo to improve Org parsing.
org-ref[fn:2] has extensive support for for citations and is explicitly designed for scientific papers and output to LaTeX.
[fn:1] Check out http://orgmode.org/manual/Footnotes.html
[fn:2] Check out https://github.com/jkitchin/org-ref/blob/master/org-ref.org