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Paste the publication date. Inside the brackets [] paste the url first with the article title to the right, and put both url and title inside the brackets. Remember to leave a blank space between url and title. For example, in editing mode if you type this
If you are creating a new page, or adding references to a page that didn't previously have any, remember to add a References section like the one below near the end of the article: ==References== {{reflist}} Note: This is by far the most popular system for inline citations, but sometimes you will find other styles being used
Formats a citation to a website using the provided information such as URL and title. Used only for sources that are not correctly described by the specific citation templates for books, journals, news sources, etc. Template parameters [Edit template data] This template has custom formatting. Parameter Description Type Status Last name last last1 author author1 author1-last author-last ...
|url= may be given if there is also an online version of the newspaper article and the |access-date= parameter is when you viewed the online version. |page= is for the page of the material needed to support the statement. (If multiple pages are needed, use |pages= instead.) Unused parameters are best deleted but leaving them blank is okay.
Citation Hunt: A tool for browsing snippets of Wikipedia articles that lack citations. Citer: Converts a URL, DOI, ISBN, PMID, PMCID, OCLC, or Google Books URL into a citation and shortened footnote. It also can generate citations for certain major news websites (e.g., The New York Times) and the Wayback Machine.
The citation template then creates an anchor using an HTML id manually or automatically formatted as CITEREF followed by the author last name(s) and the year. For citations without an author, the anchor can be customized. Anchor support across citation templates is not standardized, and not all templates support anchors.
access-date: Full date when the content pointed to by url was last verified to support the text in the article; do not wikilink; requires url; use the same format as other access and archive dates in the citations. [date 1] Not required for linked documents that do not change.
If you click on the footnote, it takes you to a section, usually at the bottom of the page, where you can see information about the source being cited. Here are some citing basics: How to format citations: Put all citations inside the tags <ref> and </ref>. This allows them to be automatically included in a reference list.