Summary
Review of what you've learned
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If you've read many Wikipedia articles, then you'll have seen plenty of inline citations. These are usually small numbered footnotes which link to a full source in a reference section when clicked, like this,[୧] although sometimes other styles are used. They are generally added directly after the fact they support, or at the end of the sentence after any punctuation.
When editing a page using the popular footnotes style, inline citations are usually between <ref> and </ref> tags.
All the references then appear together on the page, wherever the {{Reflist}} template or <references /> tag is present. This will usually be in a section titled "References". If you are creating a brand new page, or adding references to a page that didn't previously have any, don't forget to add a references section like the one below, or the citations you went to all that effort adding won't show up. See where to place it.
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
- Note: This is by far the most popular system for inline citations, but sometimes you might find other forms being used in an article such as references in parentheses. As a general rule, the first major contributor to an article gets to choose the referencing system used there. If an article uses a different system, just copy it when adding any new references.
References
- ↑ Wales, J (2012). What is an inline citation?. Wikipublisher. p. 6.
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