Research and recommend citation format for markdown

[rufuspollock]

[Originally written somewhere else in April 2020]

2 (maybe 3) parts:

• A format for defining citations references in markdown
• A reference management system with identifiers
• A build process that when building page (or doc) from markdown with refs converts those refs (using the bibliography) into a nice citation (plus bibliography)
• BONUS: a way to identify these references without breaking flow (see below)

Notes

Reference: https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/authoring_bibliographies_and_citations.html

RMarkdown approach

[@citecode]

Blah blah [see @doe99, pp. 33-35; also @smith04, ch. 1].

Blah blah [@doe99, pp. 33-35, 38-39 and *passim*].

Blah blah [@smith04; @doe99].

Identifiers vs approximates

i.e. i often don't want to have to look up a specific identifier whether for a zettel or a bibliographic reference. Can i use something approx or have a way to auto look these up whilst writing fast.

So ... in fact what this is really about is how do i insert linke references without breaking flow?

NB: atm i have to go off to Zotero, find the identifier, boot a page in my markdown system eg. books/{identifier from zotero} and then i can reference that in obsidian fast doing [[type identifier ...]]

[davidgasquez]

I have no strong opinions on this as is not something I've used a lot.

One thing that came to my mind regarding breaking the flow would be having some great autocompletes. My hunch is there is a VS Code extension or something like that where you can quickly add links with fuzzy search and smart auto complete. Again, not something I've explored myself as I don't come across this use case a lot.