Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-7302713-20130517090548/@comment-7302713-20130519045107

Oh yah, I started doing them in-line the way other in-universe articles do, but when you include a citation in the middle of a paragraph it gets very difficult to read. And when you have multiple citations in each paragraph and occasionally even citations in the middle of sentences, it gets really confusing really fast.

And yeah, you can just stick all the citations at the end of the paragraph but it gets hard to tell which citation is for what, which makes fact checking something you think is off very hard.

Also, citations inline made it so that the emphasis of italicising a word within a sentence was completely lost, because there the sentence was surrounded by italics on all sides. There's an example in coffee I think.