User talk:Nelbelmom

How does "refence tags" work?
Your question. After about 8 months of researching and working on my first article, I have a ton of reference tags, and I thought/think I have done fairly well with it. I've been doing it in MSWord.

However, when I pasted it into wiki and tried a preview it told me that I needed a reference template at the end to make the list of references show up properly. I thought that I had done this, judging by other articles that I have tried to model mine after.

Is there a way I can get someone to simply check my format? Or load pieces of it and check each one as I go along?

Nelbelmom (talk) 20:31, 8 November 2010 (UTC)


 * You can paste it into a user-space draft, and then use another 'helpme' to ask for help fixing it.  Chzz  ► 21:57, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Simple references
These require two parts;


 * a)

Chzz is 98 years old.

He likes tea.


 * b) A section called "References" with the special code " ";

Named references
Chzz was born in 1837.

Chzz lives in Footown.

Note that the second usage has a / (and no closing ref tag). This needs a reference section as above; please see user:chzz/demo/namedref to see the result.

Citation templates
You can put anything you like between, but using citation templates makes for a neat, consistent look;

Chzz has 37 Olympic medals.

Please see user:chzz/demo/citeref to see the result.

For more help and tips on that subject, see user:chzz/help/refs.  Chzz  ► 21:57, 8 November 2010 (UTC)