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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 ...
Figure 2-10 shows how it works. Figure 2-10. The Rp template lets you type page numbers when you insert multiple references to a source (bottom). They appear in superscript next to footnote numbers (top). So you can cite multiple pages from the same source without any of the problems mentioned in the section on adding page numbers to footnotes.
<noinclude>[[Category:Footnote templates]]</noinclude> to the end of the template code, making sure it starts on the same line as the code's last character. See also: Category:Hatnote templates
{{Format footnotes|{{subst:DATE}}}} or {{Format footnotes|date=January 2025}} Both options result in the same output. This template will add the page to Category:Articles needing footnote reformatting and Category:Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify. A bot will add the date for you at a later time if you forgot.
How to add a *SEMI-AUTOMATICALLY NUMBERED* footnote: 1) Assign your footnote a unique name, for example TheSun_Dec9. 2) Add the macro {{ref|TheSun_Dec9}} to the body of the article, where you want the new footnote. 3) Take note of the name of the footnote that immediately precedes yours in the article body.
Cite.php (with which Reference Tooltips does work) is currently the preferred method of creating footnotes, especially when the number of footnotes increases and the size of the article (or the area in which footnotes are used) grows. Ref converter can convert ref/note tags to the newer Cite.php style.
Shortened footnotes, also called shortened citations, are one method of citing sources for a Wikipedia article. They are a hybrid of standard footnotes and Harvard-style parenthetical referencing . Shortened footnotes, often with page numbers, appear in the reference section (wherever the reference list markup {{ reflist }} is placed) and ...
Wikipedia uses various referencing systems to cite sources that support assertions in the article and to add explanatory and supplementary material. This page compares two systems that are currently used (Footnotes and Shortened footnotes) and two older systems that are deprecated and no longer used for new articles (Footnote3 and Parenthetical referencing).