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The easiest way to create an inline citation is with a footnote. You can create a footnote with Wiki markup, by adding ref tags around your. , like this:

If you're adding the first footnote to an article, you also need to make sure that there is text that tells the software Wikipedia uses to display footnotes.

If the citation you are placing between the ref tags as your source is a link to an external website, place the website address (URL) within single square brackets along with some text, which the reader will see as a link. For example:

Though it is not required, it is highly recommended to provide more information than that in a footnote. Here is a more complete footnote:

It is not recommended to use bare URLs for your external link references, because of link rot.

Although material that is from external websites is a common reference source, Wikipedia has no preference for online sources. If your source is a book, journal, magazine, newspaper article, documentary or other source, then you would place identification information about that source between the ref tags.

If you respond better to visual information, you may find the guide below useful (click show on the right hand side).