Adding a citation to a quote or block

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Hey all, I’m curious as to how other people do this…

I’d like to add a citation to a block. In this case, it’s a quote, but I guess this is applicable to any block.

Here’s an example of what I have:

  • Vegetables are disgusting (some kid, whenever)

Would this be better represented with a child block:

  • Vegetables are disgusting
    ** some kid, whenever

If I have no current interest in the works of “some kid”, would I bother linking them?

  • Vegetables are disgusting
    ** [[some kid]], whenever

This is probably me being new to Logseq and overthinking things, but wondered what others would do in this situation.

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Hi, notice that references are “inherited” by children to populate Linked References and Simple Queries. This means that these actually tag the quote with the author name:

- "Lorem ipsum, dolor sit amet" ([[John Doe]], Somewhere)

- [[John Doe]]
  - "Lorem ipsum, dolor sit amet"
  - "Another quote by the same author"

But the quote is not tagged by the author name if you put it in a child block:

- "Lorem ipsum, dolor sit amet"
   - [[John Doe]], Somewhere
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Here’s generally how I structure things, just one block:

#+BEGIN_QUOTE
Don't demand that things happen as you wish, but wish that they happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.
-- Epictetus, Enchiridion, 8
#+END_QUOTE

Either with or without page references. (I should probably start adding page references lol)

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