In my Paranoia realm's Categories I added a Source snippet type. Source is a single selection Tag snippet; the Tag is the book/adventure/etc. name, the pages go in the text box. Many Topics/Articles have multiple Source snippets as things are added from different places. Because of how Paranoia works they often have two sets of Source snippets: one set for Red Clearance/the Players, one set for Ultraviolet/the GM. That's not something you'd do in general, though.
This is a slightly different setup from the Reference snippet, which is a Labeled Text and may not have been put in all of the Game Systems for Individuals, much less every Category. I wanted a "dropdown" and didn't have to worry about having 1,000 different sourcebooks. :)
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Originally Posted by kbs666
Why?
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As a world/adventure designer, I put it in there so I could refer back to the original sources in context. When you're combining multiple overlapping printed sources and (perhaps) also customizing it for your own world it helps when you can go back and see what came from where, what you might have dropped, etc.
As a GM, if I were running something like Pathfinder I'd use it during the game to tell the players where they can look up the rules for whatever random thing they've found/were asking about/got affected by/etc. in their physical books or PDFs. Not all players are going to use electronic devices, much less Realm Works, so it helps if you can give that to them easily.