Footnote/Endnote Overview

Footnotes or endnotes can easily be created with Nota Bene and you have considerable control over how they appear. You can place footnotes at the bottom of the page, as basic footnotes, or at the end of your document, as endnotes. In either case, as you add or delete footnotes, or move text that includes footnotes, Nota Bene handles the numbering and placement of your footnotes for you. In Page Layout View, your footnotes will be displayed at the bottom of the page, as they will appear when printed. In Codes View, the note appears within an FN (footnote) command at the point in the document where the note is entered.

Nota Bene allows you to have up to three independent sets of footnotes in the same paper. You can make decisions about the style and format of each set independently. For example, you could have one set of footnotes printed at the bottom of the page and an independent set of notes printed at the end of the document. Each set can be numbered or lettered using Arabic numbers, Roman numerals (upper case or lower case) or letters (upper case or lower case).

A footnote is text that appears at the bottom of a page, referenced by a number or symbol in the main body text of the document. You can create footnotes at any time -- either at the initial writing, or later when you return to edit the document. There is no limit to the size of a footnote. Long footnotes will automatically wrap to the next page. An endnote is exactly the same as a footnote except that it appears at the end of the document or at the end of a chapter or section rather than at the bottom of each page. Your footnotes can easily be converted to endnotes and vice versa.

Citations are bibliographic references that may appear as footnotes or endnotes, but may also appear as short form (author-date) cites or reference numbers. Rather than typing citations into a footnote, Ibidem should be used to insert and manage citations. Ibidem works seamlessly with the word processor so that the program keeps track of footnotes consisting of bibliographic citations inserted by Ibidem as well as footnotes consisting of text that you write. All notes are properly numbered and renumbered as they are entered. If you are using Ibidem to enter a citation, the full citation will be entered in the publishing style that you select. When you update your dynamic citations, the program will read the whole file, subsequent citations will be shortened (or ibid, or op. cit. will be used as determined by the style you select and/or your preferences) and a bibliography of works cited in the document will be generated. Ibidem controls the formatting of citations in accord with the academic style you select (placement of author name, title, capitalization, punctuation, etc.), but the Note Format Dialog and/or the Academic Style you select in the word processor controls the formatting of all footnotes with regard to the placement of the footnotes, the font used, the numbers used for the footnote markers and the indentation, alignment, and spacing of footnotes. For a sample of a Nota Bene document containing footnotes and citations generated by Ibidem, open the Ibidem sample file by clicking Help, Sample Instructional Files, and selecting Ibidem (Citations). This sample file provides an introduction to the use of Ibidem to manage bibliographic citations, and it shows how the program integrates bibliographic citations with non-bibliographic footnotes. The video tutorials also provide a good overview of how Ibidem is used to insert citations. See Video Tutorials.

Within a document, you can move to the next footnote or endnote marker by pressing Shift+Alt+Home to move to the previous footnote or Shift+Alt+End to go to the next footnote.The Go To dialog bar (Ctrl+G) can be used to go to a specific footnote number.