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  2. Help:Referencing for beginners - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners

    {} for references to books {{cite journal}} for magazines, academic journals, and papers; A template window then pops up, where you fill in as much information as possible about the source, and give a unique name for it in the "Ref name" field. Click the "Insert" button, which will add the required wikitext in the edit window.

  3. Help : Referencing for beginners without using templates

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    When editing, you'll see your reference next to the text; but after saving, readers will only see a reference number there; your reference should appear below. Good luck! If you get a warning about a missing "References" section at the end of the page, just add it:

  4. Help:Referencing for beginners/sandbox - Wikipedia

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    A named reference or a sfn reference pair is transfered into the page by the standard copy and paste technique. Other Tools Re-Fill and Ref-links edit references by adding basic information to bare URLs in citations. Wikipedia tool for Google Books converts a long Google Books URL into a filled-out {} template which is pasted into an article.

  5. Wikipedia:Citing sources - Wikipedia

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    Inserting short citations (see below) that then refer to a full list of source texts; As with other citation formats, articles should not undergo large-scale conversion between formats without consensus to do so. Note, however, that references defined in the reference list template can no longer be edited with the VisualEditor.

  6. Help : Referencing for beginners with citation templates

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    The easiest way to start citing on Wikipedia is to see a basic example. The example here will show you how to cite a newspaper article using the {} template (see Citation quick reference for other types of citations). Copy and paste the following immediately after what you want to reference:

  7. Wikipedia:Citation templates - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Help:Link - Wikipedia

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    In the visual editor, such a template can be created using Insert > Template > Main, and then setting the 'Page 1' parameter equal to the page to be referred to. The 'Label 1' parameter may optionally be used to set the text the link is displayed as. Up to five of these links may be specified.

  9. Help:Citations quick reference - Wikipedia

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    Footnotes with list-defined references 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.