I have published a lot of academic writing, especially for someone who has spent most of their career at a teaching institution (4/4 course load). I am asked for advice from time to time and I am careful not to tell anybody how they should do it. I can say here are some ideas and habits that have worked for me. Maybe some of them would work for you. On this subject, I have one habit that has been useful to me. Whenever I am doing any academic writing, from the very beginning, I document everything. This means that even when I start writing a conference paper six months before the meeting (another of my habits that I know is not for everybody) on the first page of the first draft there will be a footnote with the source of an idea or quotation fully identified. I never have to go back and fill those in. Of my forty or so academic conference papers, more than half have ended up in print publication, so maybe there was some wasted labor on the others, but there is usually no way to know ahead of time. If I am writing something intended for print publication from the beginning, I follow the same process. From what I have heard other people say, I gather that not everybody works this way. That’s okay, but it does create the possibility that at some point over three or four decades and 100 or so pieces of published scholarship they could miss something. They used quotations or lightly paraphrased ideas from other scholars, intending to go back later and fill in the documentation, but did not get all of them. I have seen some famous cases of academic plagiarism where this could have been the cause. Accidental plagiarism is possible. It is also preventable.