Wikipedia:Training/For students/Citing books

When referencing books, it is imperative to cite the page numbers. Providing the specific page (or pages) allow other editors to verify what is being stated. Without the specific page(s), the process of verification becomes tedious and virtually impossible with certain non-digitized scientific volumes. This tutorial will show how to properly reference different pages from a book (or from multiple books). This style of referencing is used in a number of Wikipedia's featured articles.

Citing a single page from a single book
You will learn to produce a footnote that looks as follows:

 This is something that would be followed by a reference.

Citing multiple pages from a book
You will learn to produce a footnote that looks as follows:

 This is something that would be followed by a reference. This is fact number 2.

This is yet another fact.

Citing multiple pages from multiple books
To Do..Smallman12q (talk) 00:18, 4 September 2012 (UTC)