Treatment of footnotes and endnotes
Academic writing sometimes requires notes to the main text:
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'Content' notes contain information that supplements the main text.
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'Citation' notes contain information on sources cited in the main text. (Citation notes are used if you are using the note system of citation.)
Depending on preference, these notes can be displayed as 'endnotes' or 'footnotes':
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Footnotes are displayed at the bottom ('foot') of the page that contains the reference.
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Endnotes are displayed in a group at the end of a section or work.
Footnotes and endnotes are numbered consecutively throughout a work, or throughout each chapter if the work is long.
Footnotes and endnotes are normally set in a font size that is one or two points smaller than the general text. Most word processing software has a footnote/endnote function that allows notes to be inserted and formatted automatically, including their correct positioning and the addition of 'separator' lines (the lines that separate the notes from the general text).
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