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Different form for citing and referencing
(Cites) Charles Simpson, Compost (Chicago: University Press, 1981), 27.

(References/bibliography) Simpson, Charles. Compost. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1981.

In citing, you use commas, with parenthesis around the publication details. In a bibliography, you use fulls stops, but you separate the two before the publisher with a colon and use a comma before the publication date. If there are editors, put a fullstop after them too. (CMS: 15.74.)

All multi authors should be listed in a bibliography, but in citations use et al for more than three.

To avoid complications in tricky multi-author bibliography listing, use a semicolon, like this:

Brett, P.D.; S.W.Johnson; and C.R.T. Smith.

An essay, chapter, etc., contained in another work
The first one, the smaller, goes in speech marks, and the main one goes in italics.

Skelton, Nicole. "Remembering my Mother Reading Hamlet". In Recollections of Childhood. Chicago: Namsorg Press, 1990.

(In a cite form, you'd use commas between the information.)

Standard templates
Delete fields you don't want, to save edit clutter. Fields must be lower case, bars must be between each bit.

Doesn't matter what order you put them in they come out right

Wikilinks

Most fields can be wikilinked (ie. title = book title), but should generally only be linked to an existing Wikipedia article. Any wikilinked field must not contain any brackets apart from normal round brackets — don't use <>[]{}.

Don't wikilink first and last but authorlink, with no brackets. You can deprecate first two fields by doing surname comma first name in one yourself.

Here's a basic one.

A basic one with url. Note, an example of bulleting. You must put accessdate: Full date when item was accessed, in ISO 8601 YYYY-MM-DD format, eg. 2006-02-17. Required when url field is used. Must not be wikilinked.



In the case below, the author name comes out wikilinked, whatever I've put in the authorlink box.

This one next shows you can just put author= and then do the names backwards yourself, with a comma

Field url= URL of an online book. Cannot be used if you wikilinked title.

Field pages= pages: 5–7: first page and optional last page. This is for listing the pages relevant to the citation, not the total number of pages in the book.

Example:three authors, title with a piped wikilink, edition

Harvard
Many times authors use an edition of a book that was published after the original publication. In such cases, many people put the original date of publication in square brackets followed by the date of publication of the edition used by the author who is making the citation. For example, a citation might be

(Marx [1867] 1967)

Note: Harvard referencing is not complete without the full citation at the end of the page (article) in the References section, as described next.

Complete citations in a "References" section
Complete citations, also called "references", are collected at the end of the article under a ==References== heading. Under this heading, list the comprehensive reference information as a bulleted ( * ) list, one bullet per reference work. Try to make sure that whichever citation system you choose is used consistently throughout the article.

Typical references would be:


 * McDougall, D. (2003). "Trauma of quake's shattered children". Guardian. Retrieved October 23, 2005.
 * Smith, J. How to cite your sources, Random House, 2005. ISBN 1-899235-74-4

or using a template:

*

which results in:



Citations for newspaper articles typically include the title of the article in quotes, the byline (author's name), the name of the newspaper in italics, date of publication, and the date you retrieved it if it's online.

Embedded citations
Embedded citations can be placed in an article by enclosing a URL with single square brackets — — which appears like this:  A full citation ought then be given in the References section like this:

*Google's website, which appears as:
 * Google's website

A newspaper article referenced in an article by using an embedded link might be — — which looks like this. The embedded link is placed after the period, or when placed within a sentence after a clause, then after the comma.

Then in the References section, a full citation is provided:

*"Sorrell accuses Murdoch of panic buying" by John Plunkett, The Guardian, October 27, 2005, retrieved October 27, 2005

which appears as:
 * "Sorrell accuses Murdoch of panic buying" by John Plunkett, The Guardian, October 27, 2005, retrieved October 27, 2005

It is particularly important in the case of online newspaper articles to include byline, headline, newspaper, and date of publication, because many newspapers keep stories online only for a certain period before transferring them to the archives. With a full citation, readers will be able to find the article easily even if the link doesn't work.

Here's an example of a reference with external link, used in Martin Luther:

The author comes out unlinked, and the title comes out linked. I did it the opposite way round with:

The authors needed to come after the title this time.


 * publisher: Publisher, if any.
 * accessdate: Date when item was accessed. Use ISO 8601 YYYY-MM-DD format.
 * work: If this item is part of a larger work, name of that work.
 * pages overrides page
 * See Template talk:Cite news for more help on using this template.

Note: news reference is now deprecated; please use cite news instead for new references, and gradually migrate existing references.

= Citing the web =

cite web

Using a floated div
This method has the advantage of not visibly changing anything in the article; the resulting appearance is almost identical to the original, with the only differences being that the section edit links flow naturally as expected, instead of ending bunched up to the left of the last image, slightly different spacing between the images, and a slightly different margin size. It also has the advantage of being possible to do mechanically (either with a bot or manually). However, it can only be used when the images have identical width (usually happens when all are either  or a fixed size in px, and all are more wide than tall; can also happen when thumbnails are not used).

To do this, first remove any  from the images, and add a   to them (this stops them from floating). Then wrap them in  (this makes them float together, and also puts them below any other right float instead of to the left of it; it's also what's normally used for the right-floated images). See Example 2 for an example.

Measurements
There should be a non-breaking space -  between a number and the unit of measurement. For example, instead of 18mm, use 18 mm, which when you are editing the page, should look like: 18 mm.

Keyboard Shortcuts
Ctrl + Alt + the following:


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Notes combined with refs
Kirill: I see nothing wrong with having notes that combine citations and discursive material; it's a style that's fully endorsed by at least the Chicago Manual of Style (and, indeed, pretty much the only style that makes sense if what's being annotated are the citatins themselves), and it helps avoid what would otherwise be an unreadable forest of little numbers in an article that's both heavily cited and heavily annotated

TOC
(From [Wikipedia:Manual of Style (headings)])

For each article with more than three headings, a table of contents (TOC) is automatically generated from the section headings, unless:
 * (for a user) preferences are set to turn it off
 * (for an article) in the edit box the code   is added

The TOC is put before the first section header unless it is placed manually with the code  . Thus there may be some introductory text before it, known as the "lead". See Guide to writing better articles for recommendations on the length of the lead section.

The TOC can, when an editor chooses, be floated either right or left using TOCright or TOCleft. It is not always a good idea to do this. For more on floating the TOC, including guidelines on when it is advisable, see Section.

For more on tables of contents see Section.

Vandals
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