diff --git a/src/eoatex2imxml.py b/src/eoatex2imxml.py
index 9c0f759..ac459d4 100755
--- a/src/eoatex2imxml.py
+++ b/src/eoatex2imxml.py
@@ -1207,6 +1207,28 @@ def check_footnote_paragraphs():
         logging.info("Footnote check found no errors")
 # def check_footnote_paragraphs ends here
 
+
+def move_anchors(xml_tree):
+    """Move stray anchors into paragraph"""
+
+    all_anchors = xml_tree.xpath(".//anchor")
+    logging.info(f"Found {len(all_anchors)} anchors.")
+    for anchor in all_anchors:
+        anchor_parent = anchor.getparent()
+        if anchor_parent.tag not in ["p", "EOAfigure", "hi"]:
+            anchor_pos = libeoaconvert.get_place_in_xml_tree(anchor, anchor_parent)
+            logging.debug(f"Anchor parent is {anchor_parent.tag}, anchor is at position {anchor_pos}.")
+            try:
+                next_paragraph = anchor.xpath("following-sibling::p[1]")[0]
+                para_pos = libeoaconvert.get_place_in_xml_tree(next_paragraph, anchor_parent)
+                next_paragraph.insert(0, anchor)
+                logging.info(f"Moved the anchor {para_pos-anchor_pos} positions down the tree.")
+            except IndexError:
+                logging.warning(f"This didn't work out: {anchor.get('id')}")
+                pass
+# def move_anchors ends here
+
+
 ##############################################################
 #                  Preparing the Bibliography                #
 ##############################################################
@@ -1960,6 +1982,8 @@ def add_bibliography_to_xml(
 etree.strip_tags(xmlTree, "tagtobestripped")
 etree.strip_elements(xmlTree, "elementtobestripped", with_tail=False)
 
+move_anchors(xmlTree)
+
 # here followed the conversion to epub and the conversion to django.xml
 # both parts were removed and put into separate files.