Difference: References are the bibliographies of published literature cited by the author when writing the paper, which are listed at the end of the article; footnotes mainly include explanatory notes and citation notes, which are generally printed at the footer or center of the page. Listed before the reference list at the end of the article.
Footnotes are Chinese words, and Chinese Pinyin means they can be attached to the bottom of the article page, explaining something, and printed at the bottom of the page. Footnotes and endnotes are additional explanations of the text. Footnotes are generally located at the bottom of the page and can be used as comments on content somewhere in the document; endnotes are generally located at the end of the document and list the sources of quotations.
Detailed explanation
Guo Moruo's "Sequel to the Collection of Literary and Art Theory: The Dance of the Table": "I found this interesting quote in the footnote of "Das Kapital"." Ba Jin "Postscript": "But a year later, I still took out a part of the unused postscript and stuffed it into the tenth volume of my "Collected Works" as a footnote of an essay."
Footnotes. and endnotes are supplementary explanations of the text. Footnotes are generally located at the bottom of the page and can be used as comments on content somewhere in the document; endnotes are generally located at the end of the document and list the sources of quotations.
Footnotes and endnotes are composed of two related parts, including annotation reference tags and their corresponding annotation text. Users can let Word automatically number markers or create custom markers. When you add, delete, or move automatically numbered comments, Word renumbers the comment reference tags.
References are references or references to a certain work or paper as a whole in the process of academic research. Documents cited have been noted in the notes and will no longer appear in the references at the end of the text.
According to the literal meaning, references are documents that are referred to in the writing process of articles or books. However, according to the definition of GB/T7714-2015 "Rules for the Description of Information and Literature References", references after the article refer to: "Relevant literature information resources cited for writing or editing papers and works." According to the requirements of the "Chinese Academic Journals (CD-ROM Version) Retrieval and Evaluation Data Standards (Trial)" and the "Chinese Higher Education Social Science Journals Arrangement Standards (Revised Edition)", many journals distinguish between references and annotations, and stipulate annotations as "Text that further explains or supplements a certain content in the text" should be listed at the end of the text and separated from the references or placed in the footer of the page.