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Cite.php
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Ref/Note
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Parenthetic
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Technical features
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Built into MediaWiki, permitting features like the blue highlighing on a selected footnote.
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Template based.
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No technical features, uses normal text.
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Placement of note
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Inside tags in the middle of the article.
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At the end of the article, with a tag in the middle of the article.
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Inside parentheses in the middle of the article.
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Repeated references
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Permits "named references" so we don't have to write the same reference information multiple times. Uses, however, a technology by which all footnotes to the same reference name have the same number, meaning that footnotes appear in a strange style unique to Wikipedia.
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No special features for this in normal ref/note.
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No special features for this.
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