Q. If a sentence includes quotations from different pages which are out of order (say a quotation from page 11 and then a quotation from page 3), should the citation in the footnote list the pages chronologically or in the order in which the quoted material appeared in the sentence?
A. The order of specific page number references in a footnote should correspond to the sequence of quotations in the sentence. The logic is the same as it is for multiple references to different sources in the same note, which, according to CMOS 13.61, “must appear in the same order as the text material (whether works, quotations, or whatever) to which they pertain.” But multiple sources in a note are usually separated by semicolons; multiple page numbers, unless they’re expressed as a range, are usually separated by commas (as shown in 13.22).