endnotes

Trailing scholarly citations

Endnotes are numbered references or explanatory comments collected at the end of a chapter, article, or book.

They work like footnotes but appear at the back rather than at the bottom of each page: The endnotes run for thirty pages.

Writers use them to cite sources, add tangential information, or elaborate without cluttering the main text.

bookmatter

bibliography

List of cited works

acknowledgmentsRecognition of contributions
glossaryAlphabetical list with definitions
indexAlphabetical guide to contents

colophon · addendum · appendix · supplement · afterword · epilogue · postscript · references · backmatter · errata

scholarly

footnotes

Marginal citations below text

citationsAcknowledged source mentions
bibliographyList of cited works
referencesSources cited for verification

sources · commentary · scholarship · journals · publications · thesis · dissertation · academia · manuscript · abstracts

explanatory

footnotes

Marginal citations below text

commentaryExplanatory remarks on events
explanationStatement making something clear
elucidationAct of explaining clearly

gloss · explication · interpretation · clarification · elaboration · supplementary · contextual · insight · detail · amplification

Categories

acknowledgmentsacknowledgment, acknowledgement, acknowledgments, acknowledgment, dedications
Book featuresintroduction, preface, glossary, index, bibliography
writingwriting, drafting, authors, author, books
book partspage, pages, cover, index, chapter
document contentappendix, appendices, addendum, addenda, supplement
document partstitle, page, paragraph, sentence, chapter

Opposites

placement in text

endnotesfootnotes

Marginal citations below text

marginal notes · marginalia · sidenotes · body text · running commentary

textual hierarchy

endnotesbody text

Document's main prose

Family

Familiarity: Top 100,000
Profile: Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G