Cover to Cover by Sandra Wendel

Author:Sandra Wendel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Write On Ink Publishing
Published: 2020-12-08T05:47:15+00:00

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Resources/Bibliography/References/Notes

Depending on the type of book you are writing, you might include references for further reading. I have done that here. I know people reading this book might want to find other books on topics I have introduced. As the author, I am encouraging you to explore further. I also know that I have read these books, not just looked ’em up somewhere, and I wouldn’t list a bunch of books just to list a bunch of books.

Business and self-help books often have Resources sections for further reading.

More academic books use an extensive Bibliography and Sources Cited or References where books and journal articles and online sources are detailed. In most consumer books, these types of listings are noise. No one reads them.

If you insist on citing sources, direct readers to the book’s website where you can list them. Online sources often list a URL. Well, we know what happens with those URLs. They’re impossible to type in from a paperback entry. They are never clicked on when hyperlinked in an ebook. I discourage authors from bogging down their books with references (of course, if yours is an academic book, don’t listen to me) and broken hyperlinks.

An Appendix is that pesky organ nobody needs and usually flares up when you least want to hit the ER for an operation. An appendix is not what I recommend calling back matter or extras or bonus material authors tuck into the back of their books. Just give these sections a name, as I have done here with my BONUS: Checklist. If you want to keep an academic feel out of your book, don’t use the word appendix or insert footnotes or have an extensive bibliography because readers will run for the hills.

And about Notes. A Notes section means the author may have inserted superscripts in the narrative to denote a footnote. I hate these. If you’re writing for a consumer reader, do not use footnotes, especially footnotes that appear on the bottom of the page (nightmare for ebook readers), and your interior designer will send you chocolates if you don’t have footnotes. If you need to note something as an aside or clarify, you have three options:

Work the reference into the text: “In a study at Johns Hopkins and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, study subjects were …” You’ve given your reader enough of a clue to find the original source.

Gather the notes at the end of the chapter in a section called Notes to Chapter 5. Make reference to the item they clarify like this:

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