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This template creates a short author–date citation in a footnote. It allows you to link inline citation using Harvard citations (a form of short citations using parenthetical references) to their corresponding full bibliographic citations. Template parameters [Edit template data] This template prefers inline formatting of parameters. Parameter Description Type Status Author last name 1 Last ...
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 ...
Template parameters [Edit template data] This template prefers inline formatting of parameters. Parameter Description Type Status; Affected area: 1: Text to replace the word "article", usually "section" Example section: Line: optional: Reason: reason: A description of the issue, to add to the end of the text in the generated tag. Example
Names for footnotes and groups must follow these rules: Names are case-sensitive. Please do not use raNdOM capitalization. Names must not be purely numeric; the software will accept something like ":31337" (which is punctuation plus a number), but it will ignore "31337" (purely numeric).
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The note templates place notes into an article, and the ref templates place labeled references to the notes, with the labels normally hyperlinks for navigating from a ref to a corresponding note and back from the note to the ref. The label pair of templates are similar to the pair without the label name, but with more features.
Shortened footnotes; Citations can also be placed as external links, but these are not preferred because they are prone to link rot and usually lack the full information necessary to find the original source in cases of link rot. In cases where citations are lacking, the template {} can be added after the statement in question.
The basic use of the ref and note templates is just choosing a one word descriptive <name> for your reference and: put {{ref | <name>}} where you want the footnote number to be; put a numbered list at the bottom of your document # {{note | <name>}}, for automatic numbering of your footnotes. Use a separate note template for each reference template.