Adding a citation to a quote or block

[dontpanic]

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.

[alex0]

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

[Siferiax]

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)

[Ken]

I tried both options, but am unclear how Logseq still works?
Transitioning from Google Docs to Logseq, I mustn’t have my head around the ‘outline’ flow?
Anyway, maybe there’s a plugin like Footnotes?

[Siferiax]

Looking at your screenshot, my own example is not 1 block.
So a block is defined as 1 bullet so to say.
To create a new block you use the enter key, however a new line within a block can be made with shift+enter.

So my example should look like this:

Edit
Also to make footnotes, you can use this:
Add [^1] after a sentence you want a footnote for.
Then at the bottom of the page add the footnotes by starting a block with [^1]: followed by whatever the footnote is suppose to be.
You can increment the numbers for different footnotes.
To give an example from my own graph:

[Ken]

Thanks for the CLI commands, that’s what I was looking for.
Looks like a plugin is needed for easy GUI, including automation number increments.