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Learn about the citation system that uses parentheses to indicate sources in the text and a list of references at the end. Compare the author–date and author–title methods, and see examples of different types of sources.
Learn how to cite and reference sources in Wikipedia articles, following the verifiability policy and the citation methods. Find out how to use inline citations, footnotes, templates, and tools to identify and verify the sources.
Learn how to add inline citations and reliable sources to Wikipedia articles using various tools and templates. Find out what Wikipedia considers to be a reliable source and how to avoid self-published media.
Learn about the history, conventions and examples of alphabetical order, a system of arranging character strings based on the position of the characters in an alphabet. The web page does not answer the query "what comes after abc", but it explains how to compare and order words with different numbers of letters.
List items should be formatted consistently in a list. Unless there is a good reason to use different list types in the same page, consistency throughout an article is also desirable. Use sentence case by default for list items, whether they are complete sentences or not. Sentence case is used for around 99% of lists on Wikipedia.
The reference list shows the full citations with a cite label that matches the in-text cite. The cite label is a caret ^ with a backlink to the in-text cite. When a named in-text cite is invoked multiple times, multiple alphabetic back links are created after the cite label in the reference list.
APA style is a style guide for citing sources and formatting papers in the social and behavioral sciences. It is based on the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, which has seven editions and covers various aspects of writing, such as language, structure, and mechanics.
Learn how to create and format lists of items in an article using wikimarkup and HTML. Find out the types, rules, and common mistakes of lists, as well as how to manipulate them with user stylesheets.