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OABOT, a tool that finds open-access links for citations; Web2Cit: An automatic citation generator for web sources, meant to complement citation results by Citoid for which no valid translators exist. Web2Cit translators are community controlled. It runs its own server on toolforge.
A short citation is an inline citation that identifies the place in a source where specific information can be found, but without giving full details of the source. Some Wikipedia articles use it, giving summary information about the source together with a page number.
External links and references are two important elements of Wikipedia that newcomers sometimes find trouble with. This page is designed to cover only the technical aspects of linking and referencing; it is essential that editors also familiarize themselves with Wikipedia:External links, Wikipedia:Reliable sources and Wikipedia:Citing sources, as well as Wikipedia's various other policies ...
|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.
To use it, click on Cite at the top of the edit window, having already positioned your cursor after the sentence or fact you wish to reference. Then select one of the 'Templates' from the dropdown menu that best suits the type of source.
author-link works either with author or with last & first to link to the appropriate wikipedia article. Does not work with URLs. author2, or last2 & first2: allows additional authors; author2-link and author-last2: allow links to Wikipedia pages for additional authors; url: Link to the news item if available online format: Format, i.e. PDF. Don ...
A bare URL is a URL cited as a reference for some information in an article without any accompanying information about the linked page. In other words, it is just the text out of the URL bar of a web browser copied and pasted into the Wiki text, inserted between <ref></ref> tags or simply provided as an external link, without title, author, date, or any of the usual information necessary for a ...
PDF is auto-detected and should not be specified. Does not change the external link icon (except for PDF). Note: External link icons do not include alt text; thus, they do not add file format information for the visually impaired. (This is not a concern with PDF, because the auto-detection will add "(PDF)" as descriptive text.) See Using |format=