Reworded paragraph on citation data in README.

Closes #1814.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/README b/README
index 933509c91..d1032f180 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -2570,9 +2570,10 @@ The bibliography may have any of these formats:
 Note that `.bib` can generally be used with both BibTeX and BibLaTeX
 files, but you can use `.bibtex` to force BibTeX.
 
-Alternatively you can use a `references` field in the document's YAML
-metadata.  This should include an array of YAML-encoded references,
-for example:
+As an alternative to specifying a bibliography file, you can include
+the citation data directly in the `references` field of the
+document's YAML metadata. The field should contain an array of
+YAML-encoded references, for example:
 
     ---
     references: