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Welcome to the WikiProject Romance Guidelines - References

This is a list of sites which contain useful information and references which can be used. Feel free to add more.

General

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Romance specific

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Articles to be mined

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A list of articles or books published that we've come across but have not yet had time to incorporate into applicable articles. Please feel free to update.

Citing examples

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To properly cite sources in articles, place this code inline (after the information you included that needs to be sourced): 

<ref name=rita>{{cite web|title=RITA  Awards|publisher=[[Romance Writers of America]]|url=http://www.rwa.org/p/cm/ld/fid=535|accessdate=February 13, 2015}}</ref>

and then make sure you put this under References: 

{{reflist}}

So that your citations show. If it's being used more than once in the same article, do the full citation the first time, but give the ref tag a name like this: <ref name="rita"> and then later in the article you can call this by doing just this: <ref name="rita" />. See the article on this procedure for more explanation.

For books as sources, the relevant pages (or at least the chapter) should be specified; don't make other readers hunt through the whole book for the reference. You should only be using books about romance or its authors, not the books written by the author. In other words, you shouldn't be using an author's book as a source for theme or any other point. See the No original research page for more information about this. Basically, any points that need to be made must come from someone else, published in a reliable source, not you.

If you're citing from the same book but from multiple pages throughout, it can get quite cumbersome to have to keep putting in the full cite book template each time, so you can do a simple markup in the ref tag and then make two sections: one called Notes, where you put the <references /> tag; and a References section, where you place the {{cite book}} template citation. See example here: CSS Virginia II. SOOO much easier to cite things that way and cleaner when editing.

Everything I Know About Love I Learned from Romance Novels: 

<ref>{{cite book | title=Everything I Know About Love I Learned from Romance Novels
 | publisher=Sourcebooks
 | location=Naperville, IL
 | year=2005
 | author=Sarah Wendell
 | id=ISBN 9781402254499
 | pages = p. 33
 | chapter = " "
}}
</ref>

Beyond Heaving Bosoms 

<ref>{{cite book | title=Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches' Guide to Romance Novels
 | publisher=Fireside
 | location=New York, NY
 | year=2009
 | author=Sarah Wendell and Candy Tan
 | id=ISBN 9781416571223
 | pages = pp. 85-87
 | chapter = 
}}
</ref>

Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women 

<ref>{{cite book | title=Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance
 | publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press
 | location=US
 | year=1992
 | author=Jayne Ann Krentz (editor)
 | id=ISBN 0812214110
 | pages = 
 | chapter = 
}}
</ref>

Dear Bitches, Smart Authors
Don't just link to the main website, as this forces other editors to hunt for the specific podcast the link is supposed to be citing. 

<ref>{{cite podcast|date=[[2015-05-29]]
|url=http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/podcast/143-fantasy-romance-and-the-writing-process-an-interview-with-rachel-aaron/
|title=143. Fantasy, Romance, and the Writing Process – An Interview with Rachel Aaron
|host=?
|accessdate=05-30
|accessyear=2015}}
</ref>
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