Well, I googled the phrase and it does seem to show up in a few footnotes – Like on this wiki page and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novel and here https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09592290802096380
so it is a convention I guess. But it is still easier to insert the footnote and type this text (you can even set up a shortcut) and then insert your citation.