Very often, in an answer on CSE, it is appropriate to make a reference to a published article. How is that best done? Specifically (the topics are interrelated): Should references be flowed in the text, grouped in the end, or..? Flowed example: Some attacks on implementations based on partial ...

From the help center page “What topics can I ask about here?”: Random number generation. Yet, on a recent question: This question is squarely off-topic on crypto.SE because it is about a non-cryptographic Random Number Generator. I tend to agree: if the RNG doesn't at least try ...