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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:
Wikicite is a free program that helps editors to create citations for their Wikipedia contributions using citation templates.It is written in Visual Basic .NET, making it suitable only for users with the .NET Framework installed on Windows, or, for other platforms, the Mono alternative framework.
Inline citations are usually small, numbered footnotes like this. [1] They are generally added either directly following the fact that they support, or at the end of the sentence that they support, following any punctuation. When clicked, they take the reader to a citation in a reference section near the bottom of the article.
In cases where citations are lacking, the template {} can be added after the statement in question. The following table shows examples of these ways of citing sources, categorized as "the good, the bad and the ugly".
When there are citations that differ only in page number, there are two alternatives: write all the citations out in full, including the page number, or use one citation without page numbers along with the {} template to add an inline page number after the small bracketed footnote number. Footnotes with list-defined references.
This is some wikitext supported by a cite of a book written in 2000 by an author named Marsh, with no page number specified. [1] This is some wikitext supported by a cite of pages 3-5 of a book written in 2000 by an author named Marsh. [2] This is text supported by a second reference to a citation declared elsewhere. [2]
Inline citations are usually small, numbered footnotes like this. [1] They are generally added either directly following the fact that they support, or at the end of the sentence that they support, following any punctuation. When clicked, they take the reader to a citation in a reference section near the bottom of the article.
A number of tools can be used to generate citation templates algorithmically. The functionality is built into the VisualEditor and RefToolbar. Citation bot can be run on a page, perhaps summoned by the Citation expander gadget. The user scripts reFill (formerly reflinks), ProveIt, and ReferenceExpander are able to generate citations from a url.