In org-ref you also handle this by annotations of the cite links, e.g. [[cite:book-key][p23]] and then bibtex or biblatex does the formatting.

John

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On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 7:22 AM Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 10:31 PM Adam Sneller <adam.sneller@ms2.digital> wrote:

> I currently use org-ref and helm-bibtex to manage my database of academic sources, with one notes file per source. A lot of my sources are books. So note typically grow over time, as I add multiple headers (each pertaining to a chapter or topic/note taken from that source).
>
> But now I want to produce a citation that references the page numbers where I captured that note...
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> What is the recommended way to handle this? Are you breaking notes into individual files, each with their own @inbook citation?

Generally speaking, referencing page numbers and sections of a cited
source is not handled by dedicated citations, but rather by
annotations on the containing citation (book etc.).

So in the pandoc syntax, for example, [@book, p23].

I do the same with notes, and just included the specific citation with
the note if I need to maintain the specific source page.

Bruce