refref

Our preferred method of citation is using the "cite.php" form of inline citations, using the elements. Using this method, each time a particular source is mined for information (don't copy word-for-word!), a footnote is placed in the text ("inline"), that takes one to the detail of the source when clicked, set forth in a references section after the text of the article.

In brief, anywhere you want a footnote to appear in a piece of text, you place an opening tag followed by the text of the citation which you want to appear at the bottom of the article, and close with a tag. Note the closing slash ("/"). For multiple use of a single reference, the opening ref tag is given a name, like so: followed by the citation text and a closing tag. Each time you want to use that footnote again, you simply use the first element with a slash, like so: .

In order for these references to appear, you must tell the software where to display them, using either the code or, most commonly, the template, {{Reflist}} which can be modified to display the references in columns using {{Reflist|colwidth=30em}}. Per our style guidelines, the references should be displayed in a separate section denominated "References" located after the body of the article.

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Templates that can be used between ... tags to format references

{{Citation}} • {{Cite web}} • {{Cite book}} • {{Cite news}} • {{Cite journal}} • Others • Examples