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  2. Help:Footnotes - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Help:Citations quick reference - Wikipedia

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    Footnotes with list-defined references Shortened footnotes Citations can also be placed as external links , but these are not preferred because they are prone to link rot and usually lack the full information necessary to find the original source in cases of link rot.

  4. You can create a footnote with Wiki markup, by adding ref tags around your source, like this: <ref> Your Source </ref> Once you have published your edit, the ref tags will convert your citation of a source into a footnote reference (like this one [1]), with the text of the citation appearing in the References section at the bottom of the article.

  5. Help : Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Editing, creating, and ...

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    Regular footnotes. A footnote number appears in the body of the article, and the full citation information for that footnote appears at the bottom of the article, in a section usually (but not always) called "References." Harvard-style footnotes. A footnote number in the body of the article links to a brief citation (author plus page number, or ...

  6. Wikipedia:Citing sources - Wikipedia

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    As before, the list of footnotes is automatically generated in a "Notes" or "Footnotes" section, which immediately precedes the "References" section containing the full citations to the source. Short citations can be written manually, or by using either the {{sfn}} or {{harvnb}} templates or the {{r}} referencing template.

  7. Wikipedia:Citation templates - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Help:Referencing for beginners - Wikipedia

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    Sources that are reliable for some material are not reliable for other material. For instance, otherwise unreliable self-published sources are usually acceptable to support uncontroversial information about the source's author. You should always try to use the best possible source, particularly when writing about living people.

  9. Help:Overview of referencing styles - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia uses various referencing systems to cite sources that support assertions in the article and to add explanatory and supplementary material. This page compares two systems that are currently used (Footnotes and Shortened footnotes) and two older systems that are deprecated and no longer used for new articles (Footnote3 and Parenthetical referencing).