!cite

A citation in prose: a numbered badge that opens the internote's reference drawer at the source it names.

!citeMicronodeExplained in Citations
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#Attributes

refRequiredImplicit
The #id of the cite declaration this cites, in the same document.
reference
Can be written as shorthand: !cite:value
locator
Where in the source the claim is — p. 1187, §4, fig. 2. Shown in the badge beside the number; it belongs to this citation, not to the source.
string
Also written: page

#Examples

As !cite:#fs1969() showed, the two files can be matched probabilistically.
The bound is tight for small samples !cite:#nb2007(locator: p. 214).

#Notes

  • The number is the source's place in citation order: the first source cited is 1.
  • The brackets are required, empty or not: !cite:#fs1969 without them is printed as written.
  • A citation of a source the document does not declare is refused: [reference] unknown id #nobody``.

#Writing guidance

  • Checking a document's claims — Every other number worked out, every output quoted from a run, every dataset read and attached whole, every external fact checked and cited, or cut.

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