User talk:Aravindprasad

Using references
Relevant pages:
 * WP:REFB
 * WP:CITE
 * Help:Footnotes
 * Parenthetical referencing.

Note that a Parenthetical referencing style is perfectly acceptable, and that appears to be what you have used, more or less, in Targeted covalent inhibitors. However I am going to give some pointer on the ref-tag based system, as it is the most commonly used on Wikipedia, and you will encounter it if you continue to edit. You may choose to change Targeted covalent inhibitors to use this system, but that is not required.

(Note, on this page I will use nowiki tags to display markup rather than have it render as it normally would, and code tags to make what is a source code example clear. Neither of these should be copied into actual articles.)

To reference a statement in a Wikipedia article using the ref-tags system, you follow the statement with a citation. This can be at the end of a phrase, a sentence, or a paragraph, as may be appropriate. Using a cite in mid-phrase is less usual.

A citation consists of bibliopgraphic information, wrapped in a pair of  tags.

For example a sentence with a citation might look like this in wiki code:

This would render as:

Smith was a very violent man; he often attacked others.

If we wanted to use the same reference again to support an additional fact, we could do it like this:

This would render as: Smith was a very violent man; he often attacked others. On at least three occasions he was sentenced to short periods in jail for assult.

Or if the second use of the source was on a different page, and there were going to be several cites to different pages of the same book, we could do it like this:

This would render as: Smith was a very violent man; he often attacked others. On at least three occasions he was sentenced to short periods in jail for assult.

Additional citations would be added in the same sort of way, using  for each citation. Then in a Notes or References section, reflist would be used to tell the software to generate a list of citations. Usually there is only one reflist in an article, but in special situations there may be more than one.

Note that I used, cite book above. This, together with cite journal, cite news, cite web and sokme less commonly used ones, are Citation templates. Their use is not required. I and many editors find they help keep citation formats consistent, and avoid the niggling work of doing the text formatting. But citations may be formatted manually. They may also use any reasonable style, Wikipedia has no house citation style. However, all the citations in a particular article should use a consistent style. They can also be used in the References section when using parenthetical referencing.

I hope you find this helpful. Feel free to ask additional questions at the Teahouse or on {{User talk:DESiegel|my talk page]]. DES {{sup|(talk)}} 20:54, 18 August 2015 (UTC)