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Templates. To help find sources, Wikipedians have developed a number of source-finding templates which link to searches most likely to find references suitable for use in articles. The most well-known of these is { {find sources}}, an inline template which can be used almost anywhere.
A template window then pops up, where you fill in as much information as possible about the source, and give a unique name for it in the "Ref name" field. Click the "Insert" button, which will add the required wikitext in the edit window. If you wish, you can also "Preview" how your reference will look first.
This is usually displayed as a superscript footnote number: [1] The second necessary part of the citation or reference is the list of full references, which provides complete, formatted detail about the source, so that anyone reading the article can find it and verify it. This page explains how to place and format both parts of the citation.
Referencing for beginners with citation templates. 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 { {cite news}} template (see Citation quick reference for other types of citations). Copy and paste the following immediately after what you want to ...
See also. Help:References and page numbers. When citing sources in Wikipedia articles, the citation must clearly support the material as presented in the article, per the verifiability policy. It helps to give a page number or page range—or a section, chapter, or other division of the source—because then the reader does not have to ...
Use Internet Archive scholar, CORE or another open-access search engine to look for an open version of the article. Using either the DOI, Google Scholar, or the journal's website, find out what databases index the article in full text. You can then see if either your local library or the Wikipedia Library provides access to these databases.
Wikipedia:Citation needed. A complete version of the documentation for this template is provided at Template:Citation needed. If you are new to editing and instead just need a general overview of how sources work, see the referencing for beginners help page. The { {Citation needed}} template aims to promote accountable discourse.
Reference Organizer presents all references in graphical user interface, where you can choose whether the references should be defined in the body of article or in the reference list template(s) (list-defined format). You can also sort the references in various ways (and optionally keep the sort order), and rename the references.