User:VsevolodKrolikov/sandbox

There isWP:Referencing for beginners, but I'll give you an immediate example.

The easiest way to create footnotes that you can re-use is to use

in the text where you want. Then, when you want to refer to the same source later on, you just type

where you want it in the text. This will put the same reference number, and the reference at the bottom will automatically reflect that it is used as a source in more than one place.

To do a citation, you need to use a citation template - a way of entering bibliographic data so that the refs are all in the same format. For a book, to get the reference like this:

you should type this:

So, to reference page 36 of the Da Vinci code, should you wish, type

That gets you a footnote as here. To cite the same reference again, just type

And you get this. Note that the nickname doesn't appear anywhere in the text - it's just a unique name in the article for that particular reference (i.e. no two refs in one article can have the same nickname).

You also need to make sure that at the bottom of the article is the code, which is where the references will end up. I have put it at the bottom.

There is further help in WP:Citation_templates which shows all the different styles and information you can put in, including online sources.

Please note that if you edit this, you'll see lots of "nowiki" code around examples. This is to show you how the code looks without it working. Ignore it - you don't need it.

Beneath this line I've put the reflist code to bring up the reference list

I hope this helps. You can cut and paste the example I gave of book citing. You can always practice in your sandbox (a practice page in your user space), which can be user:Siciliano99/referencing - click on the page to start editing.VsevolodKrolikov (talk) 10:14, 16 September 2009 (UTC)