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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Benjamin Wittes is a co-founder of the legal and national security affairs website Lawfare and a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution. His most recent book, “Unmaking the ...

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 ...