Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-1293767-20151029072618/@comment-24894325-20170404154715

I would say it depends on what is being cited. I've even seen the formula "et al" used to cite multiple unspecified stories when the reference is too broad. So it is completely fine to cite several stories, separated by a comma if they are all relevant. There are, however, different situations when a reference is to a very specific event that happens in one story out of the two-parter. It is explicitly described as "bad" at T:CITE when "readers won't know which thing happened in which story. The good example makes that clear by putting each citation closer to the relevant factoid." In this case, though citing the exact episode is obviously still better, for two-parters it becomes acceptable to just cite both and separate them by a slash instead of a comma to show that they are treated as one story. At least that's what I do when I don't remember exactly and don't have 100 minutes for rewatching the episodes.