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Whole references may be transcluded from other pages. When the "Edit" or "Edit source" tab at top of a page is clicked, the bottom of the window will say "Pages transcluded onto the current version of this page". Click the text if no list is shown. Articles are more likely than other pages to contain named references.
The visual editor helps users format, insert, and edit sources by simply providing a DOI, URL, ISBN etc., see WP:REFVISUAL. The citation generation tool of the Visual Editor (WP:REFVISUAL) can also be used when editing the article source, for users who have enabled the 2017 wikitext editor in their preferences.
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.
The macOS universal spell checker is available in Wikipedia's "edit this page" mode while using Safari and in theory any other Cocoa-based browser. RegExTypoFix is a large set of regular expressions meant to be loaded into AutoWikiBrowser to do automatic spellchecking. Google Chrome contains a built-in spell checker as well.
Some or all of the footnotes can also be defined within the reference section/list, and invoked in the page content. This keeps those citations in one central location for easier maintenance and avoids cluttering the text. This is purely a source code change – the actual display of the citation in the text to a reader is unaffected.
When you want to edit an existing footnote, remember that the text of that footnote goes in the body of the article, even though Wikipedia displays it in the References section. So don't open the References section to edit that footnote: All you'll see is the section heading and the <references/> tag (or its variant, the {} template). To edit ...
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This is an example edit mode representation showing use of shortened notes. Using shortened footnotes in the Refs allows an editorial choice to be made regarding the arrangement of the full citations. These are usually arranged alphabetically by author surname.