- This page lists useful tools to help with citing sources in Wikipedia.
Policies, guidelines and essays edit
- Verifiability WP:V
- Citing sources WP:CS
- Identifying reliable sources WP:IRS
Wikipedia help pages edit
- Referencing for beginners WP:REFB
- Reliable sources noticeboard - for posting questions regarding whether particular sources are reliable in context
- Free English newspaper sources WP:FENS
- List of online newspaper archives WP:LOONA
- Reference desk WP:RD
- Introduction to referencing with Wiki Markup WP:INTREF
Tools edit
- reFill - on tools
.wmflabs .org /refill toollabs:refill - Reflinks - two different Reflinks URLs: WP:REFLINKS
- CiteGen - extension for Firefox and Chrome to generate sources WP:CITEGEN
- Citation bot - See here for how to use
- Citation generator for Google Books URLs: reftag
.appspot .com - Citation generator for DOIs: reftag
.appspot .com /doiweb .py Citation generator for The New York Times URLs: reftag(doesn't work - use yadkard instead).appspot .com /nytweb .py - Citation generator for lots of types of references: tools
.wmflabs .org /makeref / - Citation generator for converting Google Books URLs, DOIs and ISBNs (plus some other URLs from major news sources - including The NY Times) to shortened footnotes or full references: tools
.wmflabs .org /yadkard / - Citation expander: Gadget for adding missing data to citations using citation templates, and makes corrections to their formatting
- A big list of citation tools: Help:Citation tools WP:CITETOOL