My kingdom for a reference manager within InDesign - how I would LOVE if we had this feature. One solution proposed in the InDesign forums suggested a dropdown (https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/same-endnote-in-multiple-places/m-p/9400502).

It could also be similar to the links panel, listing the location of the endnote + highlighting & redirecting the user to its location.

Just another Adobe user wasting hours of time researching this issue and ultimately shocked to find out InDesign does NOT offer this functionality. Even worse is that it sounds like Microsoft Word does. WTF???

Of critical importance in writing scientific/medical books and papers. Don't see a workaround.

Could be implemented using cross-references that refer back to the endnote paragraph. like figures do

Important for scientific papers!

I would like to have this feature in Indesign especially for writing scientific papers. This feature has been available in MS Words and LaTeX for years now. It should have been a common feature in Indesign by now.

Maybe Adobe could implement a palette for the Endnotes, like they do with the Hyperlinks feature. https://rankaroo.com/seo-services/

We are greatly in need of this feature as well. Multiple endnotes referenced in the file multiple times, with contributors adding in new ones that cause manual updates we are forced to do to be prone to errors.

till date, Adobe does not even seem to care about that. Anoying. We are currently setting an entire book in InDesign and have about 200 endnotes. Many are referenced repeatedly. The only option Adobe seems to allow is manual - hugely painful!

I agree Word has some serious limitations for appropriately conducting in-text citations. Scholastic work is not artistic but is worth the time of adding and improving features that allow for easy and correct APA, MLA... type work.

I just don' t understand why/how it is possible that indesign doesn't have a dedicated feature for bibliographical references in 2020 when scientific publications are so numerous and that Word manages these multiple calls to same reference so easlily… Then adobe messes it all up and forces us to redo this manually while paying so much for a so-called "professional" application…
Please adobe, help us on this issue

As usual....Adobe keeps making "innovative" yet stop at half-arsed solutions.

The only "work around" here is actually not a solution but at least, a courtesy note for readers by putting in a "See also []" statement once you put in your the endnote. Of course this isn't interactive, but at least it lets the audience know that this endnote refers to the same reference.

Does anyone know if this feature is even being considered? The state of InDesign seems suspect at this point and I'm not convinced Adobe is putting nearly as much effort into improving it as they should be.

I need this feature too, and it seems like Adobe could implement this easily by making cross references work with endnotes. You need to be able to cross reference to the endnote number, not the full endnote text.

Yes! Multiple crashes and headaches later, I'm having to custom-add the same source number multiple times (which means I'll have to go and make the endnotes link back to the right numbers) and am also needing to add multiple endnote numbers in a row, separated by commas (i.e. 24, 25, 26, 27) and while I can keep inserting the endnotes in a row, I have to have a special character style set up and applied for each comma manually inserted in-between the additional numbers.

I am completely onboard with this idea. I keep hoping endnotes will be updated to support this but I'm always letdown when it does not. I like the idea of making these "references", or whatever, and having footnotes, endnotes, and references as distinct concepts within InDesign.

Yes! I work on pharma documents and we have many instances of the same article or study being referred to in multiple places. I was hoping Endnotes could be useful for our purposes, but not as it currently stands.

For example in a footnote number 16:

16. This is the footnote number 16. See also related note 24, in page 38, and note 36 in page 45.

I want and and i need that the related notes in note 16 are cross reference that automatically updates de number of notes and pages when i add or delete notes.

This is such an important functionality that is lacking in InDesign. It should be either implemented in the endnote feature, or be it's own "references" function.

Sadly, the only option for doing this right now is manually setting every single footnote, which has a huge potential for errors.

Perhaps keep 'endnotes', but duplicate most parts of the this feature and specifically call it 'References'.

Then make it clever enough to write references as this: "1-6, 8, 12" and not "1,2,3,4,5,6,8,12".

This is so obviously missing.