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Unit 5: Citation practice
The herbicide atrazine is one of the most commonly applied pesticides in the world. As a result, atrazine is the most commonly detected pesticide contaminant of ground, surface, and drinking water. Atrazine is also a potent endocrine disruptor that is active at low, ecologically relevant concentrations. It demasculinizes and feminizes the gonads of male vertebrates by producing testicular lesions associated with reduced germ cell numbers in teleost fish, amphibians, reptiles, and mammals, and induces partial and/or complete feminization in fish, amphibians, and reptiles. Atrazine affects vertebrates through various mechanisms, but the mechanism most consistent with the effects observed on amphibian reproduction is the induction of aromatase, which is consistent with the natural sex differentiation process in X. laevis (African clawed frog).

Use Diberri's template filling tool
As mentioned in the lesson, you should use Diberri's template filling tool. You should have the "Add ref tag" option checked. If you do, the references you insert into the article should look like this, for example:



Using footnote style
That means that you should wrap your citations in tags. You will get this if you make sure you have the "Add ref tag" box checked.

In this past assignment, there was some confusion, because when people added references to their group pages, it was hard to make these tags work with multiple "notes" sections. Nevertheless, on your individual sandbox pages, the tags should be used, and that's the way citations will be done in the real Wikipedia articles.

The second time you reference the same article
If you reference the same article twice, then, the second time, you don't have to use Diberri's tool again. Just re-use the name, like this:



Notice how the tag is closed with " " at the end. Compare these two, and make sure the difference is clear:


 * First time you reference an article:
 * Second time you reference the same article: