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Main article at Wikipedia:Harvard referencing. Harvard references, collected under a == References == heading at the bottom of the article, contain a full and detailed description of the magazines, news article, books or other sources of information that are cited in the article text. There are several examples of Harvard references at the ...
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:
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 ...
The Harvard citation uses a template (such as {} or {}): The citation uses a template from the list at Citation Style 1: The name is spelled or capitalized differently here than in the citation. Solution: check the source for the correct spelling, and use the same spelling, spacing, and capitalization in both the short and full citations.
The following two examples use Shortened footnotes, showing the author(s) and date and page number(s) in the notes list and a separate list for the full reference. An advantage is that the list of full references can be sorted arbitrarily—for example, by author last name or by publication date. A disadvantage is that it is necessary to have ...
The Citation template generates a citation for a book, periodical, contribution in a collective work, or a web page. It determines the citation type by examining which parameters are used. Template parameters [Edit template data] This template has custom formatting. Parameter Description Type Status Last name last last1 author author1 author1-last author-last surname1 author-last1 subject1 ...
This is the text that you are going to verify with a reference from a book. [1] This is the text that you are going to verify with a reference from a journal. [2] This is the text that you are going to verify with a reference from a website. [3] References 1. ^ Alt, Peter-André (2005). Franz Kafka: Der ewige Sohn. Eine Biographie (in German).
A full citation fully identifies a reliable source and, where applicable, the place in that source (such as a page number) where the information in question can be found. For example: Rawls, John. A Theory of Justice. Harvard University Press, 1971, p. 1.