Although Chicago style can appear intimidating, it’s nothing more than a comprehensive guide for writing within the humanities and liberal arts. Footnotes are convenient. Say you’re reading a history ...

I agree and disagree with Rodger Beehler (“In Editing a Good Novel, the Best Footnote Is 0,” The Review, March 9). I agree that the use of endnotes, footnotes, subquotes, and whatnots in novels that ...

In the course of your business, it will be necessary to cite other emails, reports and presentations in your correspondence with employees, customers and partners. Facts included in your emails should ...

Annotations have traditionally been no more than mere footnotes in the history of fiction, providing information that supplements the main story. That is why when James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake was ...

An e-mail exchange in Russian just reminded me on this: In Russian, "a reference in a footnote" and "internal exile" (often as a form of criminal punishment) are the same word, ссылка (ssylka). Odd ...