Help:Citing sources
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Proper citations gives credibility to the content. This page explains how to create numbered footnotes and references using <ref>,</ref>, and <references/> syntax, which is the current best-practice method in most circumstances.
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Inserting references or footnotes
Single citation of a reference or footnote
At the point of citation in the article, enter the footnote or reference like this:
<ref>Excel For Dummies, First Edition, Hungry Minds, Inc., 1980.</ref>
You can include formatting and links in the footnote or reference in the usual way.
Creating the list of References or Footnotes
At the point where you want the text of the footnotes or references to appear (usually at the end of the article in a Notes or References section), insert the tag:
<references/>
Multiple citations of the same reference or footnote
To cite the same reference or footnote several times, identify it using the name parameter of the <ref> tag.
At one of the citation points (it makes sense to choose the first), enter the reference like this:
<ref name="Perry">Perry's Handbook, Sixth Edition, McGraw-Hill Co., 1984.</ref>
Then at all the other citation points, just enter:
<ref name="Perry"/>
What it looks like
The <ref> tags in the main text are converted to auto-numbered superscripts, and {{fact}} is expanded to "citation needed", like this:
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The only reference to Excel For Dummies.[1] The first reference to Perry's Handbook.[2] The second reference to Perry's Handbook and to another, related book.[2][3] The only reference to Linux in a Nutshell.[4] And third reference to Perry's Handbook.[2] |
Clicking on a numbered superscript takes you straight to the text of the corresponding footnote or reference.
The <references/><code> tag is expanded to show the text of the footnotes or references against their corresponding numbers, like this:
For single citations, clicking on the caret (^) takes you to the point of citation in the main text. For multiple citations, the links back to the main text are distinguished by letter superscripts (a, b, c etc.). Clicking on a letter superscript takes you to the corresponding citation in the main text.
Technical note
A Wikipedia:MediaWiki site (such as IT governance) must have the extension Cite/Cite.php implemented to have the <code><ref> and <references/> tags rendered. Extensions like Cite/Cite.php are installed after installing MediaWiki.
