Footnotes -- or endnotes, or just notes; whatever you want to call them -- are a problem. They're a problem for writers and a problem for readers and a problem for typesetters and a problem for page ...

MOST PEOPLE REMEMBER THEIR first kiss, their wedding night, the birth of a child. I -- like most writers -- also remember the day I first became a footnote. There, at the bottom of a page, was my name ...

Hoping to combat inattentive, lazy or uninterested students, the authors of Stats: Modeling the World titled their introductory chapter “Chapter 1: Stats Starts Here.” They explained their methodology ...

When adding endnotes to a Word document, you can position them at the end of a section instead of at the end of the document. By default, Word places endnotes at the end of the document, which is what ...

Microsoft Word's footnote feature is easy to use, but you might run into a snag if you want the footnotes to immediately follow a referenced table. Microsoft Word is so comprehensive that it’s easy to ...

Firefox/Chrome: Wikipedia's footnote system isn't the best; constantly clicking up and down the page is a pain, and it's easy to lose your place. With this simple userscript (or bookmarklet), you can ...

Although footnote references come left-aligned by default in Microsoft Word, opening someone else's document, trying to import text or using a different version of Word from the original can ...