ABSTRACT
Some journals in some disciplines use footnotes as well as references. Footnotes are most commonly found in journals in the humanities and least in journals in the sciences, with social science journals somewhere in between. Footnotes serve the same purposes as references, as outlined by Robillard in the previous chapter (p. 60) perhaps more clearly. The differences are that they are sometimes more extensive than references, often containing more exposition, and they usually appear, as their name suggests, at the foot of the page. However, it is also common to find such notes at the end of a chapter, or even grouped chapter by chapter at the end of a book.
