Help:References

From Wikibooks, the open-content textbooks collection

Wikibooks has two methods to elegantly add references to page content.

[edit] Referencing notes

This method places inline references to notes that are given in a list later on the page. It is useful in cases where a single source will be referenced multiple times on one page.

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"This hedgehog will live with us!"{{ref|Chapayev1919}}	"This hedgehog will live with us!"[1]
# {{note|Chapayev1919}} Chapayev, V.I., "Sesquipedalian Obfuscation in Late Early Middle Wikibooking," ''Journal of Very Specialized Research'', 2005.	^  Chapayev, V.I., "Sesquipedalian Obfuscation in Late Early Middle Wikibooking," Journal of Very Specialized Research, 2005.

Remember the pound sign (#) to make the matching number appear. Also, note how the 2 examples link to each other. (The links don't do anything for most people on this page because the examples appear so low on the page)

[edit] Inline referencing

This method places the notes inline where the pointer appears. The references are then automatically gathered at a particular point. This method is very simple and easy to maintain.

Markup	Display
"This hedgehog will live with us!"<ref>Chapayev, V.I., "Sesquipedalian Obfuscation in Late Early Middle Wikibooking," ''Journal of Very Specialized Research'', 2005.</ref>	"This hedgehog will live with us!"[1]
{{reflist}}	↑ Chapayev, V.I., "Sesquipedalian Obfuscation in Late Early Middle Wikibooking," Journal of Very Specialized Research, 2005.

[edit] Citations

There are plenty of citation templates to help standardise citions for various forms of source material and make life easier bo both readers and editors. See Category:Citation templates for a list of these.

Some examples are:

• {{Cite web}} A template specifically to cite web-pages.
• {{Citation}} An all-round citation template.