Can someone explain the major differences between the endnotes and references. Is endnotes really necessary for writing a technical paper? Kindly share your views on this.
Endnote if you purchase it, it is helpful in organizing your references and switch between different writing styles easily. However, for my I feel comfort in using the Reference Manager option in Microsoft Word. The issue is how much you use it, if it is frequent, then it is recommended to adopt one method for references.
The difference is easy to explain: There are different traditions in the academic disciplines and their practice of publication.
1 Hermeneutic-linguistic texts (and publishers!) prefer footnotes resp. endnotes, because to tighten up a text is a good scientific tradition, this is apllied also in all philosophical, juridical, linguistic, culture-relevant texts. But in "humanities" there is also a big need for special explanation, sometimes for additional personal remarks. Therefore play footnotes resp. endnotes an important role, here. But not so in the context of empirical research in science incl. psychology and empirical social sciences. Here is it normal to work with bibliographic notes (in bricks) within the text, and the list of references at the end. This has its natural border when tremendous references are made, as it is known from some articles. In such a case is the use of footnote more reader-friendly, in my own personal view.
2 In empirical texts the list of references is not so overwhelming, normally, therefore you can put the list of quoted authors or texts at the end.
Dear respected P Venkateshwar Reddy, Endnotes are notes placed at the end of a research paper with all other notes which appear immediately before the reference ( bibliography) arranged sequentially in relation to where the notes appears in the research paper. The endnotes provide an explanation or more information on a word, idea, or issue mentioned in the text of the research paper. In which if such explanation of the word is included in the main text it would impair the reading flowers flowers when reading the research paper while references or Bibliography, or Works Cited is placed at the last page of a research paper. It contains the full citation information for any source cited in the research paper. The full citation information which appear at the reference page tells the readers when and where the cited source was published.
Notes: Any idea or paragraph that is directly related to the basic ideas of the subject - the subject matter of the message and its contents, and what is connected to the side of the point, or explain the idea, or analysis, or comment, if placed The crucifixion of the letter called for an interruption of the intellectual sequence of the underlying subject, such as its position in the margin of the message.
Footnotes: The sources and references used by the researcher in his research, as if his documents in the study, it provides the reader as if to provide evidence and proof of what is marketed ideas, and provides the facts.
End notes are citation with superscript numbers at the paraphrased sentence that gives detailed explanation or sources for further clarification of a point raised in the text usually beneath the footnote section of the manuscript.
References are the list of citations of articles, books and other materials used in the general writing of a paper shown as in-text citations or as bibliography at the end of the paper.
I hope you are talking about the reference citation systems followed for articles and books. An endnote is a reference or comment placed at the end of an article, chapter, or book. Endnotes serve two main purposes in a paper that they acknowledge the source of a piece of information and sometimes, they provide explanatory comments that would interrupt the flow of the main text.
For endnotes, two referencing systems are prevalent, the citation-sequence system (C-S system), also called the Vancouver style, and the citation-name system (C-N system) or the alpha-numeric method. In citation-sequence system, each reference is given a number according to the order in which it first appears in the text. The citation in the text is indicated by a number, often set as superscript as1 or a number in parentheses as (1). In alpha-numeric method, references are alphabetically arranged at the end of the book or article by authors’ names and numbered consecutively. These numbers are then noted at the appropriate positions in the text.
The Name-year system (N-Y system), also called the Harvard system or the Author-Date system, is based on two requirements; the first is citation of sources in the main body of the text by the surname or last name of the author/s (without initials) followed by the year of publication and the second is to compile a list of all references at the end of the text.
The EndNote refers to a mention in the body of the article and it is marked by a number. The references could be two things, one, it could be a list of citations from the body of the paper at the end of the paper, marked by number of appearance, and two, it could be a bibliographic list at the end of the paper written by ascending alphabetical order.