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Adding citations

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See wp:citations When editing, if you have a browser which supports Wikipedia:RefToolbar/2.0, you should see this at the top of the edit window

Clicking on Cite will drop down an additional bar, clicking on "Templates" will drop down a list:
Mine has an additional. See template:Cite web (for web pages) template:Cite news (for news sources) template:Cite book and template:Cite journal for scientific journals, not on the options is template:cite magazine and others. See Citation Style 1 below.

For wp:inline citations, One typically uses ...Bob married Alice.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.cnn.com/MajorEvent3935721 |title= Bob Marries Alice |author= Jim1138 |publisher= [[CNN]] |date= September 18, 2033 |accessdate= January 2016}}</ref> If you want to put it in the external links section, leave off the <ref>...</ref> and just add {{cite web |url= http://www.cnn.com/MajorEvent3935721 |title= Bob Marries Alice |author= Jim1138 |publisher= [[CNN]] |date= September 18, 2033 |accessdate= January 2016}} THe former becomes ...Bob married Alice.^[1] The latter becomes:

Jim1138 (September 18, 2033). "Bob Marries Alice". CNN. Retrieved January 2016. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

As you can see, it didn't like my date and shows a warning in red. It's best to check one's work by clicking the Preview button before the Save page button. If you are only editing a section, the citations don't show. I sometimes add the reflist temporarily (don't forget to remove it!)

One needs a {{reflist}} to display the citations in the desired spot. Otherwise they are displayed at the end of the page.

References

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^ Jim1138 (September 18, 2033). "Bob Marries Alice". CNN. Retrieved January 2016. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

Note: the "nowiki" turns off html and markup processing Help:Wiki markup Help:HTML in wikitext

Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 23:58, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You might want to add these to your user page - user:Vc1988:

Inline cleanup tags

Attribution

Clarity

Miscellaneous

Neutrality

Precision

{{By how much}} {{Definition}} {{Definition needed}} {{Example needed}} {{Example needed span}} {{Explain}} {{How}} {{How often}} {{Misquoted}} {{Quantify}} {{Specify}} {{Vague}} {{When}} {{Where}} {{Which}} {{Who else}} {{Why}} {{Year needed}}
Excessive	{{Overly detailed inline}} {{Duplication span}} {{Importance inline}} {{Relevance inline}} {{Undue weight inline}} {{Globalize inline}} {{Infobox clutter}}

Time-sensitivity

Verifiability

Dubious	{{Contradictory inline}} {{Disputed inline}} {{Dubious}} {{Dubious span}} {{Inconsistent}} {{Needs independent confirmation}} {{Speculation inline}}
Bare URLs	{{Bare URL inline}} {{Bare URL non-HTML}} {{Bare URL AV media}} {{Bare URL PDF}} {{Bare URL image}} {{Bare URL DOC}} {{Bare URL plain text}} {{Bare URL spreadsheet}}
Incomplete or broken citation	{{Author incomplete}} {{Author missing}} {{Date missing}} {{Dead link}} {{Edition needed}} {{Episode needed}} {{Full citation needed}} {{Incomplete short citation}} {{ISBN missing}} {{Moved resource}} {{Page needed}} {{Permanent dead link}} {{Place missing}} {{Publisher missing}} {{Season needed}} {{Time needed}} {{Title incomplete}} {{Title missing}} {{Unused source}} {{Volume needed}} {{Year missing}}
Missing or problematic reference	{{Additional citation needed}} {{Better source needed}} {{Better source needed example}} {{Check quotation}} {{Chronology citation needed}} {{Circular reference}} {{Citation needed}} {{Citation needed span}} {{Citation not found}} {{Close paraphrasing inline}} {{COI source}} {{Deprecated inline}} {{Excessive citations inline}} {{Failed verification}} {{Failed verification span}} {{Image reference needed}} {{Irrelevant citation}} {{Medical citation needed}} {{Medical citation needed span}} {{Nonspecific}} {{Not verified in body}} {{Obsolete source}} {{Page range too broad}} {{Primary source inline}} {{Promotional source}} {{Quote without source}} {{Request quotation}} {{Request quotation span}} {{Retracted}} {{Scientific citation needed}} {{Self-published inline}} {{Tertiary source inline}} {{Third-party inline}} {{Unreliable fringe source}} {{Unreliable medical source}} {{Unreliable source?}} {{Verify quote}} {{Verify source}}

Wording

General advice

v t e Citation Style 1
General templates	{{Cite book}} books {{Cite conference}} conference papers {{Cite document}} short, stand-alone, offline documents {{Cite encyclopedia}} edited collections {{Cite interview}} interviews {{Cite journal}} academic journals {{Cite magazine}} magazines {{Cite mailing list}} public mailing lists {{Cite map}} maps {{Cite news}} news articles {{Cite newsgroup}} online newsgroups {{Cite press release}} press releases {{Cite report}} unpublished reports {{Cite sign}} signs, plaques {{Cite speech}} speeches {{Cite tech report}} technical reports {{Cite thesis}} theses {{Cite web}} web sources
Preprint templates	{{Cite arXiv}} {{Cite bioRxiv}} {{Cite CiteSeerX}} {{Cite medRxiv}} {{Cite SSRN}}
Audiovisual-related	{{Cite AV media}} {{Cite AV media notes}} {{Cite episode}} {{Cite podcast}} {{Cite serial}}
Categories	Citation Style 1 templates Citation Style 1 specific-source templates
Documentation	{{Citation Style documentation}}
Citation Style 1 noticeboard

v t e Wikipedia referencing
Policies and guidelines	Verifiability No original research Biographies of living persons Medicine Citing sources Scientific citations
General advice	Citation needed Combining sources Offline sources Referencing styles
Citing sources	Citation Style 1 Citation Style 2 Citation Style Vancouver Bluebook Comics Citation templates
Inline citations	Footnotes Punctuation and footnotes Shortened footnotes Nesting footnotes
Help for beginners	Reference-tags Citations quick reference Introduction to referencing Referencing with citation templates Referencing without using templates Referencing dos and don'ts Citing Wikipedia
Advanced help	Cite link labels Cite errors Citation merging (bundling) Cite messages Converting between references formats Reference display customization References and page numbers Guidance on source reviewing at FAC
Footnote templates	Citation Style documentation Multiple references {{Reflist}} {{Refbegin}}
Find references	How to find sources Bibliographies Wikipedia Library Resource Exchange Reference Desk Book Sources Free newspaper sources
Citation tools (External links)	Citer Biomedical cite Citation bot MakeRef Refill WayBack

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