Note (typography)

In publishing, a note is a brief text wherein the author comments upon the subject and themes of the book and names the supporting citations. In the editorial production of books and documents, typographically, a note usually is several lines of text at the bottom of the page, at the end of a chapter, at the end of a volume, or can be a house-style typographic usage throughout the text; notes usually are identified with superscript numbers or a symbol.^[1]

Moreover, footnotes are informational notes located at the foot of the thematically relevant page, whilst endnotes are informational notes published at the end of a chapter, the end of a volume, or the conclusion of a multi-volume book. Unlike footnotes, which require manipulating the page design (text-block and page layouts) to accommodate the additional text, endnotes are advantageous to editorial production because the textual inclusion does not alter the design of the publication;^[2] however, graphic designers of contemporary editions of the Bible place the notes in a narrow column in the page centre, between two columns of biblical text.