A federal agency brief that a Washington judge threw out recently might be memorable for what the court called excessive footnotes 48 of them, stretching hundreds of lines. Some footnotes, on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

In response to my invitation to send questions, Albert in Indiana asked about the relative merits of endnotes and footnotes in books. Mr. Meyer prefers footnotes, which allow him to “converse with ...

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 ...

Last week, at the National Constitution Center, in Philadelphia, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, whom Jeffrey Toobin recently profiled in the magazine, made a disclosure that deserves more attention than ...

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 ...