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Citation Hunt: A tool for browsing snippets of Wikipedia articles that lack citations. Citer: Converts a URL, DOI, ISBN, PMID, PMCID, OCLC, or Google Books URL into a citation and shortened footnote. It also can generate citations for certain major news websites (e.g., The New York Times) and the Wayback Machine. Citoid: A tool built into both ...
When referencing books, it is imperative to cite the page numbers. Providing the specific page (or pages) allow other editors to verify what is being stated.
A bot-filled template that did ISBN -> "cite book" would be really useful. —Ashley Y 00:26, 28 February 2012 (UTC) The Wikipedia automatic citation generator sucks. Not only is it unable to generate ISBN citations sometimes it doesn't even do it for WorldCat websites (instead generates a citation *to* the website itself!!) Example
Citation Hunt is a tool for suggesting articles with missing citations to be added. ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
OttoBib.com — a free tool to generate an alphabetized bibliography for books, using an input list of International Standard Book Number (ISBN) numbers, with output in MLA, APA, Chicago/Turabian, BibTeX, or Wikipedia format (also generates a permalink). Cite.php — a MediaWiki extension that enables the use of <ref>.
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 {} template (see Citation quick reference for other types of citations). Copy and paste the following immediately after what you want to reference:
VisualEditor also has a similar Cite button, but this is NOT RefToolbar. It instead uses an autofilling citoid service. If you want to learn how to use that Cite menu, please refer to the VisualEditor user guide .
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 ...