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IRC/references

Hi there.

You asked on the live chat about references, and after some thinking, I suggest a bit better format;

...fact here...<ref>{{Citation
|title=Ship: Belleisle
|date=1806 Jan. 31 - 1808 Dec. 31
|section=Navy Board: Navy Pay Office: Ships' Pay Books (Series III)
|volume=Records of Accounting and Pay Departments
|publisher=Records of the Admiralty, Naval Forces, Royal Marines, Coastguard, and related bodies
|location=[[The National Archives]], Kew, England
|id=ADM 35/2603
| url = http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATLN=6&CATID=5057028&j=1
| accessdate = 2010-07-04
}}</ref>

That will show like this in the references;

• "Navy Board: Navy Pay Office: Ships' Pay Books (Series III)", Ship: Belleisle, vol. Records of Accounting and Pay Departments, The National Archives, Kew, England: Records of the Admiralty, Naval Forces, Royal Marines, Coastguard, and related bodies, 1806 Jan. 31 - 1808 Dec. 31, ADM 35/2603, retrieved 2010-07-04 {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

How references work

Simple references These require two parts; a) Chzz is 98 years old.<ref> "The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. </ref> He likes tea. <ref> [http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com Tea website] </ref> b) A section called "References" with the special code "{{reflist}}"; == References == {{reflist}} (an existing article is likely to already have one of these sections) To see the result of that, please look at user:chzz/demo/simpleref. Edit it, and check the code; perhaps make a test page of your own, such as user:Tfmoffatt/reftest and try it out. Named references Chzz was born in 1837, <ref name="MyBook"> "The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. </ref> in Footown.<ref name="MyBook"/> Note that the second usage has a / (and no closing ref tag). This needs a reference section as above; please see user:chzz/demo/namedref to see the result. Citation templates You can put anything you like between <ref> and </ref>, but using citation templates makes for a neat, consistent look; Chzz has 37 Olympic medals. <ref> {{Citation | last = Smith | first = John | title = Olympic medal winners of the 20th century | publication-date = 2001 | publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]] | page = 125 | isbn = 0-521-37169-4 }} </ref> Please see user:chzz/demo/citeref to see the result. For more help and tips on that subject, see user:chzz/help/refs.

See User:Chzz/help/refs and Template:Citation.

Hope that helps.  Chzz  ►  12:38, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

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