User talk:Jward1989/sandbox

Suggestions for citation format
Here's how to footnote your citations in a "References" section:

EXAMPLE: Contributions to political campaigns
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Bank of America is the United States' forty-first largest donor to political campaigns, having contributed more than US$ 14 million since 1990, 54% and 46% of which went to Republican and Democratic recipients, respectively. A key political issue for Bank of America includes proposed changes to privacy laws.

EXAMPLE: References
Here's what the wiki markup looks like for the above format (you can check the wiki markup for anything by clicking "edit this page"--wiki markup is what the edit screen displays.):
 * ===EXAMPLE: Contributions to political campaigns===  According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Bank of America is the United States' forty-first largest donor to political campaigns, having contributed more than US$ 14 million since 1990, 54% and 46% of which went to Republican and Democratic recipients, respectively. A key political issue for Bank of America includes proposed changes to privacy laws.

EXAMPLE: References
Pay close attention to the code for: . In wiki markup, those two little bits of code display this:
 * 1) The footnote. It looks like this:   ===References===


 * (that's the footnote)

References (example 2)
And you use them like this: '''The footnote will appear (together will all other footnotes on the page so far) wherever you place the tag. Thus: Note that every time I create a "references" section using the tag, that section compiles (and numbers) ALL the "ref tags" I've used on the entire page (i.e. the URL)--and displays them as footnotes. That's why the "References" sections in this message display progressively more iterations of the same footnote. The markup will treat each tag as a new footnote, even if these tags contain exactly the same information. Here's a final demonstration:
 * (that's the "References" section break, followed by the citations:)
 * Here's the fact I'm citing.
 * This is a sample paragraph. This is a sample sentence. This is a new sample sentence. This is another sample sentence. This is the penultimate sample sentence.  This is the last sentence.

References (example 4)
(What makes it a "references" section is simply this bit of code-- --which I will proceed to type below:)