Footnotes/Endnotes

 

When you set the reference style for your open document, you will have the opportunity to choose Footnote/Endnote rather than Short Form or Reference Number. With this style selected, any citations that you insert will be inserted as footnotes (or endnotes).  

 

Footnotes are a method of documenting sources for a paper with the following characteristics:

•Superscripted numbers at the points in the text where a source needs to be referenced.
•Numbers in the text are sequential, in the order of their appearance in the paper (1, 2, 3, etc.).
•Numbered citations for sources are listed at the bottom of each page, in the order of their appearance in the document.                

 

For instance:

 

Theoretical views about the import of fact surface, quite frequently, in fiction.  Marilyn Robinson, in her most recent novel, Housekeeping, for instance, invites us to reconsider the weight we have afforded "facts" in our century.¹ Saul Bellow, too, has his character Henderson comment on the problematics of tangible value in the novel Henderson the Rain King, telling his companion that "reality may be terrible," but it is, from his point of view, "better than what we've got."²
 
It seems, in fact, to be the case that at least in the views of those writers we have examined in this essay, facts are generally suspect.

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¹Marilyn Robinson, Housekeeping (New York: Bantam Books,1972): 217.
²Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King (New York: Penguin Books, 1965): 105.

 

Endnotes are written in the same manner as footnotes; endnotes, however, are always placed in a numbered list at the end of the document.

 

The selections you make from within Ibidem will not differentiate between footnotes and endnotes. This is done from within the word processor. By default, footnotes/endnotes will be entered as footnotes.  Endnotes are created by using the Note Format dialog in the main Nota Bene word processor to specify the placement of any footnotes in the document as endnotes.  Making this selection from within the word processor will effect footnotes/endnotes that are bibliographic citations generated by Ibidem as well as textual footnotes/endnotes.  For general information on the use of footnotes/endnotes in Nota Bene, see Footnote/Endnote Overview. For instruction on how to create endnotes in Nota Bene, see Endnotes.

 

For more information on how to set the style, see Set Reference Style or In-Text Citation Format.  For more information on how to insert citations, see Inserting Citations.

 

 

See also:

Short Form (Author-Date) Cites

Numbered References