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Don’t miss this new discussion of “sense-making” and the academic literature: Sense-making of Academic Literature Using Tinderbox - #9 by pat
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I understand Mark Anderson’s concern with knowing how your output, but I’d warn against putting the cart in front of the horse. Sure, it’s always nice at the end of the project to push a button and – voila! – get a finished and formatted file, but unless you’ve got a very small project or a very tight schedule, a little bit of extra work at the very end isn’t worth a ton of anxiety today.
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Reading between the lines, my sense is that you’re working with a fairly modest set of sources and that you expect to make repeated use of many sources. It may make sense in this case to have a unique shorthand you use privately to refer to each source: Tac for Tacitus’ Annales, CAH5 for volume 5 of The Cambridge Ancient History, and so forth. Used consistently, these abbreviations or tags can be readily searched, and modest numbers are not very hard to keep in mind. You can make these references into links later. Conversely, if you decide to use links to connect sources with their use, you can convert that information into this sort of shorthand without much trouble, too,.
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