Source-Class Inflation
Source-class inflation is this publication's name for the failure in which sources of wildly different evidentiary standing are presented inside one undifferentiated apparatus, so that a reader who checks a citation and finds it real has no way to learn what class of thing they have found. It is a diagnostic category defined here rather than a finding from the literature. It names a defect this vault kept meeting and had no word for.
What it is
The apparatus does its narrow job. It confirms that a reference exists. What it never does is tell the reader whether the reference is a randomised trial, a wellness-imprint trade book, a podcast transcript, a conference abstract, a devotional address or a practitioner's own website. One typeface, one size, one indent, one running sequence, and the levelling is done silently by the typesetting rather than by any claim the author makes.
Note carefully what is not being said. A book may quote whoever it likes, and books in several genres routinely cite nobody at all. The failure is not the presence of the sources. It is the undifferentiated typesetting that makes them indistinguishable from a paper in Science.