How to put off dealing with persnickety references and endnotes

How to put off dealing with persnickety references and endnotes

Nonfiction books come from source material. The source material is usually the intellectual property of other authors. That means it should be footnoted, with proper citations in a common, officially accepted format like MLA or the Chicago Manual of Style. People hate doing this. They put it off. And that tends to lead to errors….