Where you place your notes within your work is a matter of choice, but it is cleaner and generally more accepted to have them at the end of the entire work.

Although footnotes – that is, notes at the end of the page – are suitable in some circumstances, such as office memorandums or business letters, they tend to take up more space and look disjointed in a printed book. I have seen notes at the bottom of a page take up almost half of the entire page; to me, this looks and feels wrong.

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