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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/9019
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- Usually, there are no demarcations made in the text that would tell your readers if a word is present in the glossary or not.

- In cases when there is a remark about something that needs to be made, a footnote is used.

- In certain cases, the footnote is not explained in the footer of the same page, rather it refers to a different section usually titled "Notes".

- For such footer symbols, the following convention is used:

- In textbooks and articles, if words are to be included in a glossary (as is your question), there is no standard rule of using symbols. It is expected of the reader to have a look for and at the glossary, for words that they may find difficult.

- As a suggestion you could _italicize_ the first occurrence of words that you have included in the glossary

- As an alternate, you can put an \* mark next to the words (though this might distract your reader).

- Another possible solution is to include a mark in a bracket. For example you could write (_G_) in the bracket (similar to Clayton's comment)

Hope this helps.

Addition: You can find the details about footnotes that I have referred to above at this link:[http://dd.dgacm.org/editorialmanual/ed-guidelines/footnotes/footnotes\_chap\_09.htm](http://dd.dgacm.org/editorialmanual/ed-guidelines/footnotes/footnotes_chap_09.htm)

I have taken the info about the order of symbols to be used in the footnote from the above (which happens to be a chapter from "United Nations Editorial Manual").

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