Hatvany, Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society, 2013 The first definition we provide for footnote is “a note of reference, explanation, or comment usually placed below the text on a printed page.” The reason we says the note is “usually” place at the bottom of the page, as opposed to “always,” is because sometimes people refer to notes at the end of the book as footnotes, rather than endnotes.Īdditionally, researchers and students will find the ample footnotes at the end of the book informative and highly useful for understanding the plethora of primary and secondary sources used in the interpretation and writing of environmental history.

2008 What is a footnote?įootnote is a bit more complicated, as this word has multiple senses, and some of these have broad meanings. Stephen Wassell, Nexus Network Journal, Oct. Selected mathematical details are cited in the endnotes, and the list of references includes many publications focused on the relationships between architecture and mathematics in Palladios designs. Therefore, the book provides an introduction to the history of Travellers and to the current conversations surrounding them rather than a thorough literature review, although the endnotes provide a helpful launching pad for that endeavor. We define endnote as “a note placed at the end of the text.” There is very little semantic ambiguity with this word’s definition, and the manner in which it is used is fairly consistent.

What is the difference between an endnote and a footnote? Is it merely that one is a note placed at the end of something, while the other is one placed at the foot? In some ways the answer is yes (it is always pleasing when things are this simple), while in ways the answer is a bit more complicated (because things are never quite this simple).

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Footnote vs endnote symbols