Changing location=none to location=text still left me with the bullet points appearing in a big list at the end of my chapter, but without any messages in them. On Monday, April 22, 2024 at 07:54:39 AM MDT, Joel via ntg-context wrote: A few years back, I tried using endnotes with ConTeXt-SBL, and it failed to compile. I'm forced to try again (due to some other issue with footnotes), and instead of compiling to error, it compiles, but the footnote's message ends up being empty.  Why is it appearing empty? Is there a fix? Here is a minimum working example: \usemodule[publ-imp-sbl] \startbuffer [bib] @Article{na2006, title={Volcanoes \word{of} New Mexico}, year={2006}, journal={New Mexico Earth Matters}, publisher={New Mexico Bureau \word{of} Geology \word{and} Mineral Resources}, volume={6}, number={1}, location={Socorro, New Mexico} } @Book{clark1989, author = {Clark, William}, title = {Railroads \word{and} railroad towns \word{in} New Mexico}, publisher = {New Mexico Magazine}, year = {1989}, address = {Albuquerque, New Mexico}, isbn = {9780937206126} } \stopbuffer \usebtxdataset[bib.buffer] \setupbtx[dataset=default] \usebtxdefinitions[sbl] \setupbtx[sbl] \setupnote[footnote][location=none] \starttext    \input knuth     \cite[clark1989]     \placenotes[footnote]          \startchapter[title=Bibliography]         \placelistofpublications     \stopchapter \stoptext --Joel ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl webpage  : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) archive  : https://github.com/contextgarden/context wiki    : https://wiki.contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________