User:Seagull123/Referencing tools


 * This page lists useful tools to help with citing sources in Wikipedia.

Policies, guidelines and essays

 * Verifiability WP:V
 * Citing sources WP:CS
 * Identifying reliable sources WP:IRS

Wikipedia help pages

 * Referencing for beginners WP:REFB
 * Reliable sources noticeboard - for posting questions regarding whether particular sources are reliable in context
 * Free English newspaper sources WP:FENS
 * List of online newspaper archives WP:LOONA
 * Reference desk WP:RD
 * Introduction to referencing with Wiki Markup WP:INTREF

Tools

 * reFill - on https://tools.wmflabs.org/refill toollabs:refill
 * Reflinks - two different Reflinks URLs: WP:REFLINKS
 * http://dispenser.homenet.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/webreflinks.py
 * http://dispenser.homenet.org/~dispenser/view/Reflinks


 * CiteGen - extension for Firefox and Chrome to generate sources WP:CITEGEN
 * Citation bot - See here for how to use


 * Citation generator for Google Books URLs: http://reftag.appspot.com/
 * Citation generator for DOIs: http://reftag.appspot.com/doiweb.py
 * Citation generator for The New York Times URLs: http://reftag.appspot.com/nytweb.py (doesn't work - use yadkard instead)
 * Citation generator for lots of types of references: http://tools.wmflabs.org/makeref/
 * Citation generator for converting Google Books URLs, DOIs and ISBNs (plus some other URLs from major news sources - including The NY Times) to shortened footnotes or full references: http://tools.wmflabs.org/yadkard/
 * Citation expander: Gadget for adding missing data to citations using citation templates, and makes corrections to their formatting
 * A big list of citation tools: Help:Citation tools WP:CITETOOL