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date: date of publication, in same format as dates in the body of the article. pages or page: the page number or numbers of the relevant information (e.g. pages=31-32 or page=157). Note that "pages" overrides "page" if they are both present. access-date: Date when item was accessed, in same format as dates in the body of the article.
For web-only sources with no publication date, the "Retrieved" date (or the date you accessed the web page) should be included, in case the web page changes in the future. For example: Retrieved 15 July 2011 or you can use the access-date parameter in the automatic Wikipedia:refToolbar 2.0 editing window feature.
date: Date of referenced source. Can be full date (day, month, and year) or partial date (month and year, season and year, or year). Use same format as other publication dates in the citations. [date 1] Do not wikilink. Displays after the authors and is enclosed in parentheses. If there is no author, then displays after the website and publisher.
There exist many bibliographic file formats to store and exchange bibliographic references. Amongst them, the main formats are the following: Pages in category "Bibliography file formats"
the publication-date format in the template is YYYY-MM-DD; the citation requires a CITEREF disambiguator; orig-date: Original publication date or year, for display (in square brackets) after the date (or year). For clarity, please supply specifics, for instance |orig-date=first published 1859 or |orig-date=composed 1904.
On the Default output format drag-down menu, select Wikipedia Citation Templates and click OK. Now open an edit window for the Wikipedia article you want to add a reference for. Go ahead and add the information you want to reference or find it, and add empty <ref></ref> tags where the reference should go.
For a citation to appear in a footnote, it needs to be enclosed in "ref" tags. You can add these by typing <ref> at the front of the citation and </ref> at the end. . Alternatively you may notice above the edit box there is a row of "markup" formatting buttons which include a <ref></ref> button to the right—if you highlight your whole citation and then click this markup button, it will ...
Citations are important in Wikipedia to ensure that information comes from actual, reliable sources (WP:V, WP:CITE).There are three preferred ways of citing sources: ...