User:Alex Kyrios/Citations

If you want to write out your citations by hand like you would for a paper, that's fine. But it's much easier to take advantage of some of Wikipedia's built-in templates that will automatically build citations for you if you just feed in some information. To cite a source for a particular sentence, add at the end of the sentence, after the punctuation. Then plug in one of the templates from the list below between and fill in the information as necessary. For example, writing will produce:

Many articles already have reference sections. If you're adding the first citation to an article, you may have to add a References section. It's as easy as adding this:

==References==

A References section should go after the main text of the article, after a See also section and before an External links section (not all articles will have these either). Without a References section in place, the system won't know where to display citations, and you'll get an error message.

Templates

 * Book source:
 * Journal source:
 * Magazine source:
 * Thesis/dissertation:
 * Web source:

Note: accessdate is only important for electronic sources, which can change over time. If you're citing a print book, journal, etc., don't include this or a URL.

Need to cite another kind of source? Just ask for help.