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id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" lang="en">Help:Introduction to referencing/2</h1> <div id="bodyContent" class="mw-body-content"> <div id="siteSub">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> <div id="contentSub"><span class="subpages">< <a href="/web/20150410130231/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Introduction_to_referencing" title="Help:Introduction to referencing">Help:Introduction to referencing</a></span></div> <div id="jump-to-nav" class="mw-jump"> Jump to: <a href="#mw-head">navigation</a>, <a href="#p-search">search</a> </div> <div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"><div style="max-width: 1100px; margin:auto;"> <table style="width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid black; -moz-box-shadow: 2px 2px 2px #CCC; -webkit-box-shadow: 2px 2px 2px #CCC; box-shadow: 2px 2px 2px #CCC;"> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td style="width: 22em; padding: 0; border-right: 1px solid #c9c9c9; vertical-align: top;"> <p><br/></p> <div 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</table> <p>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,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup> although <a href="/web/20150410130231/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Inline_citations" title="Wikipedia:Inline citations" class="mw-redirect">sometimes other styles are used</a>. They are generally added directly after the fact they support, or at the end of the sentence after any punctuation.</p> <p>When editing a page using the popular footnotes style, inline citations are usually between <code><ref></code> and <code></ref></code> tags.</p> <p>All the references then appear together on the page, wherever the {{<a href="/web/20150410130231/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Reflist" title="Template:Reflist">Reflist</a>}} template or <code><references /></code> 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 <a href="/web/20150410130231/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Layout#Order_of_sections" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout">where to place it</a>.</p> <pre> == References == {{Reflist}} </pre> <dl> <dd><i>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.</i></dd> </dl> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span></h2> <div class="reflist" style="list-style-type: decimal;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="citation book">Wales, J (2012). <i>What is an inline citation?</i>. 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