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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 3185930" data-attributes="member: 177">Okay - you're writing a technical paper, possibly for publication.  That's highly relevant.  Technical journals have varying style guidelines on such things.  You should probably be following those standards most commonly used within the field.  Take on the standards of the most popular journal, or the one in which you hope to publish.In general, my own thoughts as a technical writer:If you are taking one point in the paper, and referring to multiple outside sources for support, it would be appropriate to have the references in one list, within one set of parenthesis.  If you are taking multiple points in the paper, and referring to separate outside sources for each, putting them in the same list would lead the reader into thinking the references are logically grouped together, which would be bad.Personally, I prefer foot or endnotes for such things, rather than in-line references - the in-line reference has a tendency of distractign the reader, breaking the logical flow of your reporting.</blockquote>