Help:Footnotes and endnotes

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In printing there are various methods of indicating notes: either as notes at the bottom of the page, or aggragated at the end of a chapter or section. Sometimes all notes are accumulated as lists at the end of the book. In Wikisource page foot notes are not practical, so chapter or section end notes are urged, with hyperlinks between the reference numbers in the text and the notes they relate to.

• Example: (from the EB1911 project. Introduction to the Encyclopaedia, but numbers changed)

In preparing the Eleventh Edition a useful check on the possibility of such accidental omissions as are apt to occur when the treatise plan is pursued, was provided by the decision, arrived at independently of any question of subdivision, to revert more closely to the original form of the Encyclopædia Britannica, and to make separate headings of any words which, purely as words, had any substantial interest either for historical or philological reasons, or as requiring explanation even for English-speaking readers.^[1]

1^ Though the pursuance of the ideal of making the whole book self-explanatory, a great many purely technical terms have been given their interpretation only in the course of the article on the science or art in which they are used, even these are included, with the correct references, among the headings in the Index. Similarly, biographical accounts are given of far more persons than have separate biographies. The Index in all such cases must be consulted, whether for word or name.

• The codings used are:

{{ref|1}} for the reference place, and 1{{note|1}} for the note at the end of the document. Clicking on the blued-out superscript figure at the end of the reference will jump to the text of the note, and clicking the blued-out ^ will reverse the jump.

Important. Always precede the note code with the appropriate figure. (The 1 before the first curly bracket in this case). This means the note can be found if a printed copy is being read instead of on screen.

Early texts

In some early texts, page footnotes are not numbered but indicated by typographical symbols, such as the section § the Pilcrow or paragaph mark ¶, the single and double daggers † ‡, and the asterisk* In Wikisource, these should be changed to numbered end-notes, with a note on the text's talk page to say that the change has been made.

Important addendum

A new method of referencing has been introduced Meta [[1]] The allows the note texts to be written immediately following the reference code but will appear in a reference section at the bottom of the page once the text is saved. Worth experimenting with.

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