Citations which support statements made in a fact note must be attached to the fact. Therefore, they appear (by superscript) where the fact sentence ends, before the note begins. It would be more accurate to be able to have a citation (endnote) number appear after the part of the note it refers to. I wouldn’t necessarily want to break down that note into several separate facts to accomplish that.
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This is a serious problem for me as well, but I can’t think of a good way to fix it. Well, it would better, I think, if the citation superscript went after the fact as a whole including after the note for the fact. But that doesn’t get the citation superscript to appear after the part of the note it refers to.
It seems to me that a citation could be just for the fact date, or just for the fact place, or just for the fact note, or just for the fact note or even for a part of the fact note. Or a citation could be for several different pieces of the fact without being for the fact as a whole. Short of using Microsoft Word or another word processor as my genealogy program of choice instead of using RM or one of RM’s competitors, I can’t think of a good way to solve the problem of citation superscripts appearing exactly with the part of the fact to which they refer.
I run into this problem big time when I have facts which are just notes. It’s really ugly to have the superscript appear at the very beginning of the fact because the only thing in the fact is a note. My workaround sometimes is to put the first or introductory sentence of the note into the Description field. That at least moves the superscript away from the very beginning, but it’s still not very satisfactory.