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@GeePawHill

Yes, very much so. --- Finding the right balance between citing everything and readability is tricky. For my two (semi)-popular books (Mind Within the Brain [Oxford], Changing How We Choose [MIT Press]), I was able to convince them to let me use a double-step citation process.

What I did was to provide either rare notes through the text (Oxford ~ 1-2 superscript numbers per paragraph) or page number links (MIT Press) that then included author-year citations in the endnote, linking to a full bibliography at the end. So there weren't a lot of notes in the main text, but all of the cites were still there. On the other hand, in order to find the citation, you have to take two steps (to the endnotes and then to the bibliography).

This worked well, but required me to do the major (semi-final) write of the book in LaTeX because I needed to actually program the citation manager myself. (Easy to do in BibTex, really hard in modern systems.)

It was also a major negotiation in both cases that required me standing up for citation and readability.

May be useful for other people writing #books . #SciencePublishing

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