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  2. Parenthetical referencing - Wikipedia

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    A citation is placed wherever appropriate in or after the sentence. If it is at the end of a sentence, it is placed before the period, but a citation for an entire block quote immediately follows the period at the end of the block since the citation is not an actual part of the quotation itself.

  3. Wikipedia : Guidance on applying the Manual of Style

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    Other examples: Arthur said the situation was "deplorable". (The full stop (period) is not part of the quotation.) The aesthetic style, which is only really now used in North America, [citation needed] was developed as early typesetters thought it was more aesthetic to present punctuation that way. In the aesthetic style, the punctuation goes ...

  4. Wikipedia:When to cite - Wikipedia

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    When using footnotes, the citation should be placed in the first footnote after the quotation. In-text attribution is often appropriate. Close paraphrasing: Add an inline citation when closely paraphrasing a source's words. In-text attribution is often appropriate, especially for statements describing a person's published opinions or words. In ...

  5. Wikipedia:Manual of Style - Wikipedia

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    Glosses that translate or define unfamiliar terms take single quotes; simple glosses require no comma before the definition (Turkic qazaq 'freebooter' is the root of Cossack; republic comes from Latin res publica, loosely meaning 'public affair'.). The {} template can be used for this; e.g. {{lang|es|casa}} {{gloss|house}} yields: casa ' house '.

  6. Wikipedia:Citing sources

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    As in the above example, citation markers are normally placed after adjacent punctuation such as periods (full stops) and commas. For exceptions, see the WP:Manual of Style § Punctuation and footnotes. Note also that no space is added before the citation marker. Citations should not be placed within, or on the same line as, section headings.

  7. Ibid. - Wikipedia

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    Ibid. is an abbreviation for the Latin word ibīdem, meaning ' in the same place ', commonly used in an endnote, footnote, bibliography citation, or scholarly reference to refer to the source cited in the preceding note or list item. This is similar to idem, literally meaning ' the same ', abbreviated id., which is commonly used in legal ...

  8. Help:Citations quick reference - Wikipedia

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    In cases where citations are lacking, the template {} can be added after the statement in question. The following table shows examples of these ways of citing sources, categorized as " the good, the bad and the ugly ".

  9. Help:Referencing for beginners - Wikipedia

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    Inline citations are usually small, numbered footnotes like this. [1] They are generally added either directly following the fact that they support, or at the end of the sentence that they support, following any punctuation. When clicked, they take the reader to a citation in a reference section near the bottom of the article.