Making a unique reference number—*—at the beginning of a doc followed by 1,2,3 no.s

Thank you. The page you sent me was helpful for some other things, but not for my problem. I tried making a section starting on the first page and then another on the second page. It didn't make any difference. I've attached a sample showing what I mean by differing footnotes. The author info reference no. is denoted by * and all subsequent references in the text start at 1 and go from there. It's the * I cannot get without effecting all the other numbers. InDesign makes reference/footnote * number 1, thereby throwing off the rest of the numbering in the entire document.