diff --git a/src/codecs/jats/__file_snapshots__/footnote.jats.xml b/src/codecs/jats/__file_snapshots__/footnote.jats.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..01f7d7b9d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/codecs/jats/__file_snapshots__/footnote.jats.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Archiving and Interchange DTD v1.1 20151215//EN" "JATS-archivearticle1.dtd">
+<article xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" article-type="research-article">
+    <front>
+        <article-meta>
+            <title-group>
+                <article-title>Untitled</article-title>
+            </title-group>
+            <contrib-group/>
+            <abstract>
+                <p>The abstract can contain a footnote.</p>
+            </abstract>
+        </article-meta>
+    </front>
+    <body>
+        <sec>
+            <p>Further thoughts below.</p>
+        </sec>
+    </body>
+    <back/>
+</article>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/codecs/jats/__file_snapshots__/footnote.yaml b/src/codecs/jats/__file_snapshots__/footnote.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..900ee79c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/codecs/jats/__file_snapshots__/footnote.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+type: Article
+description:
+  - The abstract can contain a footnote.
+  - type: Note
+    id: note-1
+    noteType: Footnote
+    content:
+      - type: Paragraph
+        id: footnote1
+        content:
+          - A footnote from the abstract.
+identifiers: []
+title: Untitled
+meta: {}
+content:
+  - type: Paragraph
+    content:
+      - Further
+      - type: Note
+        id: note-2
+        noteType: Footnote
+        content:
+          - type: Paragraph
+            id: footnote2
+            content:
+              - 'An '
+              - type: Strong
+                content:
+                  - important
+              - ' footnote.'
+      - ' thoughts below.'
diff --git a/src/codecs/jats/__fixtures__/footnote.xml b/src/codecs/jats/__fixtures__/footnote.xml
index dacf91862..b2cacf0ef 100644
--- a/src/codecs/jats/__fixtures__/footnote.xml
+++ b/src/codecs/jats/__fixtures__/footnote.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 <?xml version="1.0"?>
 <article>
+<front>
+<abstract>
+<p>The abstract can contain a footnote.<fn id="note-1"><p id="footnote1">A footnote from the abstract.</p></fn></p>
+</abstract>
+</front>
 <body>
-<p>Further<fn id="note-1"><p id="Ch0.note-1">An <bold>important</bold> footnote.</p></fn> thoughts below.</p>
+<p>Further<fn id="note-2"><p id="footnote2">An <bold>important</bold> footnote.</p></fn> thoughts below.</p>
 </body>
 </article>
diff --git a/src/codecs/jats/index.ts b/src/codecs/jats/index.ts
index 43b0e6d2b..40064bc7f 100644
--- a/src/codecs/jats/index.ts
+++ b/src/codecs/jats/index.ts
@@ -509,7 +509,7 @@ function decodeAbstract(
   state: DecodeState
 ): stencila.Article['description'] {
   if (elem === null) return undefined
-  const ps = all(elem, 'p')
+  const ps = children(elem, 'p')
   if (ps.length === 0) return undefined
   if (ps.length === 1) {
     const content = decodeInlineContent(ps, state)
diff --git a/src/codecs/jats/jats.test.ts b/src/codecs/jats/jats.test.ts
index 3a239d72f..66f46d8f2 100644
--- a/src/codecs/jats/jats.test.ts
+++ b/src/codecs/jats/jats.test.ts
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ describe('encode: Math', () => {
 test.each([
   'fig.xml',
   'statement.xml',
+  'footnote.xml',
   'quote.xml',
   'elife-30274-v1',
   'elife-43154-v2',
