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Jun 06, 2011 13:10

What's the least obtrusive/annoying way to include a source link for a quote in a fic? I'm going to have links to some of my research sources in my extended author's notes, including the site the info's quoted from, but I'm uncomfortable having a largeish paragraph quoted unacknowledged in the text.

I could do it like a footnote, but I don't know ( Read more... )

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fictionalfaerie June 7 2011, 01:55:25 UTC
My vote is definitely for footnotes.
Least obtrusive, and footnotes always make me smile- one of the most fun books I've ever read used a shit ton of footnotes and I had a blast reading it.
You could also list the notes at the bottom as well as make them link, that way if you don't want to leave the page, you don't have to?
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hector_rashbaum June 7 2011, 03:10:13 UTC
Yeah, I think I'm going with the numbered-footnote style, and maybe make it an actual footnote and maybe not. IDK the closer I get to my bbb posting day the more I need to freak out about, lol

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