To update chapters, edit the text for any of the Rmd files in the repository. The syntax is standard markdown. References are in Pandoc format (e.g. [@ref-key]). Copy your references to any new bib file (to avoid conflicts) and use this yml at the top of your chapter
---
bibliography: ["references.bib"]
biblio-style: "apalike"
link-citations: true
---
Replace references.bib with the name of your bib file.
GitHub actions will build the book. It takes ~4-10 minutes to build and you can see progress by clicking on the Actions tab and navigating to the current build.
Only commit to master. Never commit to gh-pages. The actions will automatically push to that orphan branch.
You can use this Google doc extension to convert a block of text to markdown and paste that into a Rmd here.