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Names for footnotes and groups must follow these rules: Names are case-sensitive. Please do not use raNdOM capitalization. Names must not be purely numeric; the software will accept something like ":31337" (which is punctuation plus a number), but it will ignore "31337" (purely numeric).
Template:Sfnm – creates a series of shortened footnotes separated by semicolons; Template:Sfnmp – creates a series of shortened footnotes separated by semicolons, with dates in parentheses; Template:Unbulleted list citebundle (Shortcut: {}) – citations are indented in an unbulleted list
If an editor simply copies the source code of a reference or citation (for example, the <ref>...</ref> nested with the citation), the citation will become duplicated in the reference list in the footnotes. This template is used to indicate that editors on an article have done this. It needs to be fixed by using named references:
If an editor simply copies the source code of a reference or citation (for example, the <ref>...</ref> nested with the citation), the citation will become duplicated in the reference list in the footnotes. This template is used to indicate that editors on an article have done this. It needs to be fixed by using named references:
With footnotes, linking works both ways. For example, for footnote 1, instead of clicking on the upward caret ("^") to go to the footnote, you click the "a", "b", and "c" to go to the three places in the body of the text where the footnote number ([1], in this case) is located. Multiple footnotes are marked up differently than singular ones.
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 ...
Text to replace the word "article", usually "section" Example section: Line: optional: Reason: reason: A description of the issue, to add to the end of the text in the generated tag. Example Parenthetical citations should be converted to [[Help:Footnotes|footnotes using reference tags]]. Line: optional: Month and year: date
The long citation to support the shortened citations can either be placed as a bullet point in a separate References section after the Footnotes section; or it can be placed in the first footnote to cite the source (with the initial relevant page number[s]). The remaining footnotes will use shortened citations (these usually contain the author ...