How to Add Endnotes

Endnotes are the simplest way to provide references and additional discussion for a work of nonfiction. Your word-processing software may have a function for marking and collecting endnotes -- look in the "Insert" or "Edit" menu, or search the software's Help file. If you don't have access to this function, or want to use a different format than your software provides, keep endnotes as a separate document as you write the text and put the two documents together later. Add endnotes to each chapter of a book just as you would to a briefer paper, or collect all the endnotes to a chapter of their own in the back matter.

Things You'll Need

• Word-processing software

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Instructions

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     Open two word-processing files and drag them with your mouse to where they overlap at their margins, if at all.

   • 2

     Write your text in one file. When you cite a reference or need to raise an issue that doesn't fit the flow of your main work, insert a superscript at that point in the text.

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     Click in the second file. Type the number or other character you chose for the superscript in the main text. Tab and enter your endnote material.

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     Double-check that your notes match the references in the completed main text. Open a new page at the end of your file.

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     Copy all of the endnote material to the clipboard and paste it into the new page of the main file.