A combination of footnotes and endnotes would be nightmarishly unwieldy for me; but to each, his own. *My opinion* is that endnotes in books and lengthy scholarly articles are tremendously tedious for readers (nevertheless, I do the tedious chore with material worth the effort). When reading any statement of fact, I require a cited source. Otherwise, I feel abandoned with the question, "How It Know?" (Punch line to an ancient old joke.) When reading a conclusion in a case study or research report or news article, I want to be informed--right there within the text--of the how and why of that conclusion. *My opinion* is that the author's responsibility is to be forthcoming and inform the reader; it is not the reader's responsbility to reconstruct the reasoning (the sum of the evidence) for the author's conclusion from bits and pieces of information scattered around various pages, footnotes, and endnotes. Kathy