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Examples
editBelow are examples of how to use various templates to cite a book, encyclopedia, journal, website, comic strip, video and editorial comics, etc.
- For full description of a template and the parameters which can be used with it—click the template name (e.g. {{Citation}} or
{{cite xxx}}) in the "template" column of the table below. - Required field(s) are indicated in bold
- Copy and paste the text under "common usage" to use the template.
- Following each example is the resulting article text.
For a list of tools that can help create some of the templates below, see: Wikipedia:Citation tools.
Citations are commonly embedded in reference templates. For more information, see: Wikipedia:Footnotes.
Avoid
edit- Vanity pages
- Articles about yourself, your friends, your website, the band you're in, the word you made up or a story you wrote. If you are worthy of inclusion in the encyclopedia, let someone else add an article for you. Putting your friends in an encyclopedia may seem like a nice surprise or an amusing joke, but articles like this are likely to be removed. In the process, feelings may be hurt, and this can be avoided by a little forethought.
- Advertising
- Please don't try to promote your product or business. Please don't insert external links to your commercial website unless a neutral party would judge that the link truly belongs in the article; we do have articles about products like Kleenex or Sharpies, or notable businesses like McDonald's, but if you are writing about a product or business be sure you write from a neutral point of view.
- Personal essays or original research
- Wikipedia surveys existing human knowledge; it is not a place to publish new work. Do not write articles that present your own original theories, opinions, or insights, even if you can support them by reference to accepted work.
- A single sentence or only a website link
- Articles need to have real content of their own.
- See also: What Wikipedia is not.