Endnotes

Endnotes (gathering citations and reference lists at the end of each chapter or at the end of the paper) are popular among academic writers, primarily because they make the transition from a submitted manuscript to published resource so much easier.

Proper use of endnotes would include evaluative bibliographic comments and occasional explanatory notes or other brief additional information that would seem digressive if included in the main text but might be interesting to readers.

The rules for endnotes are easy, especially if you are already familiar with how to use footnotes. And if you have used footnotes, you are probably aware how an overly-enthusiastic use of footnotes can result in a paper where entire pages may be mostly footnote text, with very little actual paper content. This can be very distracting to your readers. So if you want to include all of the additional information and interesting notes that you have accumulated in the course of researching your paper, but do not want to tax the patience or attention span of your readers, then endnotes are probably the way to go.

In the text, place a superscript numeral immediately after the text about which you would like to include more information. Number the notes consecutively in the order they appear in your paper. At the end of the paper, create a separate page labeled Notes (with the title centered at the top of the page).