Appendix
Today, finally, my local library had Digital Minimalism by Carl Newport not being borrowed. I've just started reading it, the introduction is interesting, thats as far as ive gotten, Ill read a few chapters tomorw.
My first thought when reading this is real books have a very different and very interesting way of quoting and referncing compared to what school is teaching me. I think this because my school has found a way to turn every single subject into an English assignment and now the only thing i can think about is referencing.
My school teaches something like this
"the quote goes here," (Author(2026), acccessed on 19/02/2026, hyprlink to source)
But in real books it seems to be much more like
As author said "the quote goes here." Appendix reference number The quote goes here: Author, source title, publish date, link to source
I definitely prefer the inline of the second, it has a lot less boilerplate. I think really the major difference is the book is written proffesionally and therefor has the references tied into the paragraph so it reads more like a narrative rather than a list. My math teacher is actually pushing me to do something similar and integrate formulas and explain working out like a narrative and just put the formatted equations in the appendix.