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Text formatting in citations should follow, consistently within an article, an established citation style or system. Options include either of Wikipedia's own template-based Citation Style 1 and Citation Style 2, and any other well-recognized citation system. Parameters in the citation templates should be accurate.
In running text, more natural wording is often better ("the US state of Georgia", "US-based Great Northern Railway", "the Labour Party of the UK"), though this may depend on context. To help navigation to article titles with these United States abbreviations, please create a redirect that contains (U.S.) or (US) as needed.
The RIS file format—two letters, two spaces and a hyphen—is a tagged format for expressing bibliographic citations.According to the specifications, [3] [4] [5] the lines must end with the ASCII carriage return and line feed characters.
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).
References 1. ^ freetext. Whatever text, formatting, or templates you put in between these two tags <ref>...</ref> will become visible in the "References" section as your reference. The reference in its <ref>...</ref> pair belongs in the article, anything placed after the {} template or the <references /> tag will not display.
APA style (also known as APA format) is a writing style and format for academic documents such as scholarly journal articles and books. It is commonly used for citing sources within the field of behavioral and social sciences, including sociology, education, nursing, criminal justice, anthropology, and psychology.
This list of style guide abbreviations provides the meanings of the abbreviations that are commonly used as short ways to refer to major style guides. They are used especially by editors communicating with other editors in manuscript queries, proof queries, marginalia , emails, message boards , and so on.
For advice on writing style and formatting in a bullet-point format, see Wikipedia:Styletips; For summaries of some Wikipedia protocols and conventions, see Wikipedia:Dos and don'ts; If you don't want to use wikitext markup, try Wikipedia:VisualEditor instead; To ask a question, see Wikipedia:Questions to locate the appropriate venue(s)