# In-post referencing support (feature request) **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature\ **Created:** [May 17, 2021, 7:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/in-post-referencing-support-feature-request/190638 "2021-05-17T07:40:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![robbie.morrison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c5a1d2/32.png) [@robbie.morrison](https://meta.discourse.org/u/robbie.morrison)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 2:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/in-post-referencing-support-feature-request/190638/4 "2021-05-17T14:10:02Z")
@Joe, thanks. I’ll experiment. Numbered references are not my most favored citation style but one can mix numbered references with authors named passively in the text too. That is exactly how Wikipedia works, of course. And clearly the use of extended Markdown has advantages over inventing a new discourse‑specific HTML tag as earlier suggested. I guess the backstory is that discourse is increasingly being deployed in research contexts. Again thanks for your follow‑up. R --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/in-post-referencing-support-feature-request/190638)._