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User:BrandonXLF/Autoref replaces the reference button in the editing toolbar in the 2010 wikitext editor with a button that allows the use of Citoid to insert an auto generated reference; User:BrandonXLF/Citoid generates a reference using the Citoid server. Designed for being used inside user scripts.
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:
This template is for when multiple sources used in an article are user-generated content. User-generated means that the source was written and published by random members of the public (e.g., another wiki, a reader-editable database like IMDb, an Internet forum, a Usenet newsgroup or Internet mailing list, etc.), rather than by separate authors and formal publishers (e.g., news media websites ...
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 ...
Wikidata is largely user-generated, and articles should not directly cite Wikidata as a source (just as it would be inappropriate to cite other Wikipedias' articles as sources). But Wikidata's statements can be directly transcluded into articles; this is usually done to provide external links or infobox data.
{{User-generated source|date=December 2024}} This is an inline citation cleanup template used inside <ref>...</ref> to flag a source as user-generated content (e.g. another wiki, a content farm, or a user-editable database like IMDb—in other words, a crowdsourced reference), and thus potentially unreliable, per WP:Identifying reliable sources#User-generated content (WP:Verifiability#Self ...
Wikipedia:VisualEditor/User guide § Adding a new reference; Wikipedia:VisualEditor/User guide § Editing references; Help:Referencing for beginners without using templates; Help:Referencing for beginners with citation templates; Help:Citations quick reference; Help:References and page numbers; Wikipedia:References dos and don'ts
Citations are important in Wikipedia to ensure that information comes from actual, reliable sources (WP:V, WP:CITE).There are three preferred ways of citing sources: ...