On 24/08/17 22:18, wjhonson wrote: > At one point I enjoyed citing thepeerage.com because he actually > cited sources like "Burke's Peerage 1957 page 245" which could at > least potentially be looked up. Yes, I agree that websites like that can be useful. If I get stuck I'll often type a name into Google to see if I can find any web pages that cite a proper source. Occasionally I get lucky. > Citations should be inter-linear, specific, and accessible. > Otherwise you might as well just make stuff up and post it as fact. Totally agree. Books that only list sources at the end of a chapter, or worse the whole book, are pretty useless. Even the style used in /History of Parliament/, where each paragraph ends with a list of sources, is painful to use. It needs to be readily apparent which source or sources a particular fact derives from, and clearly citing every fact is a good way of checking that you really do have adequate sources for everything you claim. Richard