I still don't understand citations.

[esmenet]

I probably shouldn't use this journaling platform as a place to ask ridiculously obvious questions that everybody else in the ENTIRE WORLD knows the answer to, but Google is no help and neither is my mom.

R-list, please tell me how citations actually work. I get the superscript-number-leading-to-footnote-with-source-info bit, but not what needs to be cited. I mean, if I'm talking about a specific event that I got out of a specific book, that needs one, but what about 'white usually symbolizes purity' or 'Krishna is blue'?

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[azuire]

(It's k citations are annoying.) What format are you using? Word/HTML doc? What exactly do you need cited? Some things don't need it, e.g. "The Earth is round" or "the sky is blue" or "Friends is an awful TV show".