User:A8UDI/cite

How to cite your references on Wikipedia really, really easily

How references work

Simple references

These require two parts:

a)

Tom is 21 years old.<ref> "The book of Tomasso", 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}}" after the "External links" section;

== References ==
{{reflist}} or <references/>

(an existing article is likely to already have one of these sections)

Named references

Chzz was born in 1520, <ref name="MyBook">
"The book of Tomasso", 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.

Citation templates

You can put anything you like between <ref> and </ref> including [www.website.com], but using citation templates makes for a neat, consistent look;

Tom has 3,700 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>

For more help and tips on this subject, see WP:CITE.