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  2. Wikipedia:Manual of Style - Wikipedia

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    Use of italics should conform to Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Text formatting § Italic type. Do not use articles (a, an, or the) as the first word (Economy of the Second Empire, not The economy of the Second Empire), unless it is an inseparable part of a name (The Hague) or of the title of a work (A Clockwork Orange, The Simpsons).

  3. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Text formatting

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    Emphasis may be used to draw attention to an important word or phrase within a sentence, when the point or thrust of the sentence may otherwise not be apparent to readers, or to stress a contrast: Gellner accepts that knowledge must be knowledge of something. It may be preferable to avoid the need for emphasis by rewriting a sentence more ...

  4. Wikipedia:Citing sources - Wikipedia

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    These are used together with full citations, which are listed in a separate "References" section or provided in an earlier footnote. Forms of short citations used include author-date referencing (APA style, Harvard style, or Chicago style), and author-title or author-page referencing (MLA style or Chicago style). As before, the list of ...

  5. Wikipedia:Inline citation - Wikipedia

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    This method automatically arranges the references presented in an article through the use of opening and closing ref tags: <ref> and </ref>. Information placed between the two tags forms the footnote. Either standard wiki markup or citations templates can be used to format bibliographic citations.

  6. Wikipedia:Citation needed - Wikipedia

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    A "citation needed" tag is a request for another editor to supply a source for the tagged fact: a form of communication between members of a collaborative editing community. It is never, in itself, an "improvement" of an article.

  7. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section - Wikipedia

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    (See also Format of the first sentence below.) When the page title is used as the subject of the first sentence, it may appear in a slightly different form, and it may include variations, including plural forms (particularly if they are unusual or confusing) or synonyms .

  8. Purchase order - Wikipedia

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    An example of a purchase order request from a travel agent. A purchase order, often abbreviated to PO, is a commercial document issued by a buyer to a seller, indicating types, quantities, and agreed prices for products or services required. [1] It is used to control the purchasing of products and services from external suppliers. [2]

  9. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Layout

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    Single-sentence paragraphs can inhibit the flow of the text; by the same token, long paragraphs become hard to read. Between paragraphs—as between sections—there should be only a single blank line. First lines are not indented. Bullet points should not be used in the lead of an article. They may be used in the body to break up a mass of ...