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Topic : What referencing style is this? I was reading a book and I’m curious about the referencing style that is used. When you go to the reference page it is sorted by chapters and then it lists - selfpublishingguru.com

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I was reading a book and I’m curious about the referencing style that is used.
When you go to the reference page it is sorted by chapters and then it lists then the references for each particular chapter and the page where the reference can be found.
For example:

Chapter Eight
[p. 110] For H.L. Mencken's assessment of the New Testament, see his Treatise on the Gods (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1997) p. 179.

And it would continue citing all references for chapter eight. Then it would say “Chapter 9” and list all references for chapter nine and so on.
I just really like that referencing style. It makes everything really easy to find since it lists both the chapter and page where the references is found. So does anyone know what referencing style this is? I’m not familiar with it. Is it perhaps a modified version of something, and would I be able to use it in my own writing?

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While this is, indeed, an endnote as noted by others, the part in parenthesis IS a citation. It seems to follow Chicago's endnote style:

(City: Publisher, Year.)

It's not pure Chicago because it doesn't include the author's name and book title in the standard format, but to me it looks like it was influenced by Chicago's style, adapted for use in the endnote with some commentary.

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Basically these are endnotes. They are often used in popular non-fiction.

Endnotes give the text a more "narrative" appearance, whereas footnotes distract the lay reader and confuse those without the necessary training (e.g. to deal with contradictory information).

Usually pop science endnotes do not meet the more severe academic style standards. Endnotes are uncommon in academic publications today (footnotes are preferred).

Some academic styles (such as APA) avoid both foot- and endnotes, referring inline to a list of sources in an abbreviated style (e.g. author name and year of publication).

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