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This template should be placed in the References section of an article if the article incorporates text from a source that is not under copyright and there is no source specific template listed in Category:Attribution templates. {{Source-attribution|source and other details|no-icon=y |pl=y |inline=y}} The four parameters are: 1 (unnamed ...
These templates relate to the verifiability of Wikipedia articles, or their lack thererof. This includes the use of citations and reliable sources. See Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles for guides to usage of some of these templates.
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 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:
Two general purpose templates for attributing specific sources where the text has been copied into Wikipedia from a public-domain source: {{citation-attribution}} {{source-attribution}} Three general purpose templates for attributing specific sources where the text has been copied into Wikipedia from a compatibly-licensed source:
Templates relating to Citations. Citation templates provide a uniform, easy way to cite sources. The inclusion of a template here does not necessarily mean that the sources in question are appropriate references; for details, see WP:Reliable sources and the individual template pages. Some templates may be marked FOR TESTING ONLY. Do not use ...
Full citations are collected in footnotes or endnotes, or in alphabetical order by author's last name, under a "references", "bibliography", or "works cited" heading at the end of the text. This style of citation was a type of referencing used on Wikipedia until September 2020, when a community discussion reached a consensus to deprecate this ...