As someone who does a fair chunk of legal writing, I sorely miss citation signals when doing other kinds of writing. The ability to make a specific kind of refe

As someone who does a fair chunk of legal writing, I sorely miss citation signals when doing other kinds of writing. The ability to make a specific kind of reference to a source other than a direct citation opens up a lot of expressive flexibility, particularly for research writing. The ability to say “hey, here’s a couple of examples of my point” (see, e.g,), “here’s some general background material on this topic” (see also), or “this is an analogous but not directly applicable source” (cf.) in a standardized, efficient way is something other disciplines could do to have.