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A '''footnote''' is a note referenced from the text and placed at the bottom of a [[page (paper)|page]] or, more rarely, beside the referencing text in a book or document.  
A '''footnote''' is a note referenced from the text and placed at the bottom of a [[page (paper)|page]] or, more rarely, beside the referencing text in a book or document.  

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:Endnote redirects here.  For other uses, see Endnote (disambiguation)

A footnote is a note referenced from the text and placed at the bottom of a page or, more rarely, beside the referencing text in a book or document.

A footnote usually contain a reference, a citation, or comments that the author decided not to include within the main body of the text. The footnote is usually referenced in the main text by a superscripted letter, symbol or an ordinal number, but other forms and formats are also common.

A special type of note are the endnotes which are similar in most respects to footnotes, but are positioned at the end of a chapter or a book.