Us eof outbound links and referencing sources

[ClareO]

Hello everyone,

I am writing weekly articles for a website. At times, I am referring to data/statistics from other articles/studies.

My question is - how do you include links/references to this material? For example, I notice that some articles cite their sources at the end/bottom. But - some include outbound links to the original source throughout the main content of the article- so that when you click on the link it takes you to the correct web page.

So far, I am including a 'Sources' section at the end of my article that includes title, author, date. I am doing this to stop people clicking off my article to check out the link!

Do I need a specific sources section if I cite my source as I go along? For example, 'In their 2017 study of life insurance, the Association of British Insurers found that 70% of Brits are without life insurance'. (made up statistic!

Different web writers seem to do different things and it's a little confusing!!

Sorry if this is rather long  -winded! Any help with this would be much appreciated.

Thanks guys,

Clare