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Citations/refs in general edit

For footnotes using inline citation/ref use <ref>...</ref>, with optional <ref name="...">. Then towards end of page use template {{RefList}} once.

See Help:Footnotes for general guidance & recommendations.

The most freeform is "naked" use of <ref name="...">...</ref>

Use a template inside of <ref> to give more structure and automatic formatting.

One of the most generic is template {{Citation}}. This is known as "Citation Style 1" aka "CS1".

There are "children" of {{Citation}}.

"General use" citations, including {{Cite web}} and {{Cite news}}
"Specific source" citations, including {{Cite IETF}}
Templates that "wrap other CS1 templates", including
- {{Cite tweet}} that wraps {{Cite web}}
- {{OpenStreetMap maps}} that wraps {{Cite map}}

All the "children" can use all of the params of general {{citation}}.

Citation to short story "Moriarty by Modem" in the anthology Sherlock Holmes in Orbit edit

Using {{Cite book}} with chapter="story" w/chapter-url= for the story link, then title="anthology". If there was an url for the overall anthology, I would have added a url=. FYI, I added/updated this citation on Analytical engine.

Nimersheim, Jack (1995). "Moriarty by Modem". Sherlock Holmes in Orbit. DAW Books. pp. 287–302. ISBN 9780886776367. Archived from the original on 2003-06-20. Retrieved 2023-11-11.

Citations to printed material with page numbers edit

This is a citation to an entire paper, where the citation does not include any page numbers ^[1].

This is a citation to same paper, where the citation itself contains ref to pages 7 and 8^[2].

This is reusing the citation containing pages 7 and 8^[2]

This is a citation to same paper, but page 14 inside the citation ^[3].

When a single article has multiple refs to same source differing in only page numbers, see templates {{sfn}}, {{harvp}}, and related, and then combined with a manually created "Bibliography" section, sometime section is named "Works cited", often combined with {{refbegin}} and {{refend}}. These templates automatically links into the manually created "Bibliography" section. For example pages that use these, see Starship Troopers and Happy Birthday to You.

Template {{Rp}} provides visual-only pages markup, with a cite is to the entire paper.^[1]^: 7–8

Inline links to RFC edit

Use template {{IETF RFC}} like this RFC 7095

Use special syntax [[rfc:3261]] like this, rfc:3261

This is known as "Interwiki linking" with complete list at MetaWiki:Interwiki_map

You can customize the link as usual with [[rfc:3261|RFC 3261]] like this RFC 3261

You can deep link with [[rfc:3261#section-21.4.18|rfc-3261 §21.4.18]] like this rfc-3261 §21.4.18

Citations to RFC edit

Use template {{Ref RFC}} for an all-in-one <ref>...</ref> plus cite.

See docs for variations on section name, pages, etc

Use template {{Cite IETF}} within a <ref>...</ref>

shallow^[4]
deep^[5]
deep w/sectionname^[6]
shallow with section.^[4]^: §5.6.5 This uses {{Rp}} for visual-only section number, combined with {{cite ietf}} to the entire RFC.

deep with appendix name^[7]

For fine-grained control use generic template {{Cite web}} ^[8]

Note that template {{Citation}} is the basis of both {{Cite web}} and {{Cite IETF}}. So you can also use all params from {{Citation}}.

When a single article has multiple refs to same rfc differing in only section/page numbers, see discussion about templates {{sfn}} and {{harvp}} above.

{{Citation needed}} and related verifiability templates edit

See Wikipedia:Citation needed for guidelines on when to (not) use the {{Citation needed}} template

See Template:Inline cleanup tags for an exhaustive list of related templates

When citation is present but questionable,

{{Specify}} : Used to tag statements that seem to be sourced but lack sufficient specificity as to what exactly is being drawn from the source. This situation most often arises when sources are over-summarized to an excessive level, without sufficient care for whether the result has a clear enough meaning to be properly verifiable.

{{Verify source}} : Used to request that someone verify that the cited source supports the material in the passage, only after you have made a good faith attempt to verify the information yourself, and you still have good reason to question whether the source is correct