Culture · 6 pages · 12 min

How a footnote differs from an endnote in use

A footnote stays on the page. An endnote sends the reader to the back.

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From the opening

A footnote and an endnote can carry the same citation or the same aside, and the difference is where the reader has to go to read it. The footnote sits at the bottom of the page that called it; the endnote is collected at the end of the chapter or the book. The opening covers same note, different place, the eye drop versus the flip, and why publishers pick one.

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Inside

Same note, different place
The eye drop versus the flip
Why publishers pick one
Placement is not reliability
Where the idea stops applying
A distinction worth keeping

Sources

Footnotes and endnotes as placement choices
The Chicago Manual of Style on note forms

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How a footnote differs from an endnote in use

From the opening

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