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Note about citation format

Ghogan--here's a copy of the advice I'm giving about footnotes:

Suggestions for citation format

Here's how to footnote your citations in a "References" section:

EXAMPLE: Contributions to political campaigns

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Bank of America is the United States' forty-first largest donor to political campaigns, having contributed more than US$ 14 million since 1990, 54% and 46% of which went to Republican and Democratic recipients, respectively. A key political issue for Bank of America includes proposed changes to privacy laws.

EXAMPLE: References

Here's what the wiki markup looks like for the above format (you can check the wiki markup for anything by clicking "edit this page"--wiki markup is what the edit screen displays.):

• ===EXAMPLE: Contributions to political campaigns===
  According to the [[Center for Responsive Politics]], Bank of America is the United States' forty-first largest donor to political campaigns, having contributed more than US$ 14 million since [[1990]], 54% and 46% of which went to [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] and [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] recipients, respectively. A key political issue for Bank of America includes proposed changes to privacy laws. <ref>[http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.asp?ID=D000000090&Name=Bank+of+America Donor Profile:Bank of America. ''opensecrets.org''.] Retrieved 25 October, 2007.</ref>
  ===EXAMPLE: References===
  <references/>
  

Pay close attention to the code for:

1. The footnote. It looks like this:
   <ref>[http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.asp?ID=D000000090&Name=Bank+of+America Donor Profile:Bank of America. ''opensecrets.org''.] Retrieved 25 October, 2007.
2. The "references" section that automatically compiles your footnotes. It looks like this:
   ===References===
   <references/>

Together, they look like this:

• <ref>[http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.asp?ID=D000000090&Name=Bank+of+America Donor Profile:Bank of America. ''opensecrets.org''.] Retrieved 25 October, 2007.</ref>
  ===References===
  <references/>.

In wiki markup, those two little bits of code display this:

• (that's the footnote)

References (example 2)

• (that's the "References" section break, followed by the citations:)

And you use them like this:

• Here's the fact I'm citing.

The footnote will appear (together will all other footnotes on the page so far) wherever you place the <references> tag. Thus:

Note that every time I create a "references" section using the <references/> tag, that section compiles (and numbers) ALL the "ref tags" I've used on the entire page (i.e. the URL)--and displays them as footnotes. That's why the "References" sections in this message display progressively more iterations of the same footnote. The <references/> markup will treat each <ref>...</ref> tag as a new footnote, even if these tags contain exactly the same information. Here's a final demonstration:

• This is a sample paragraph. This is a sample sentence. This is a new sample sentence. This is another sample sentence. This is the penultimate sample sentence. This is the last sentence.

References (example 4)

(What makes it a "references" section is simply this bit of code--<references/>--which I will proceed to type below:)

See Also

1. Wikitext (aka wiki markup)
2. Wikipedia:Footnotes
3. Help:Footnotes

Cheers, Cyrusc 18:26, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Another message from Cyrusc

I think the reason you're getting "edit conflict" messages is that you've accidentally created whole new userpages

You should FIRST:

Create a SUBPAGE sandbox by clicking on this link:

SECOND: Go to

and

COPY EVERYTHING THERE AND PUT IT IN

Then erase all text in the problem pages. Replace this text with:

{{db-blanked}}

on both pages.

This will request that a WP administrator delete these user pages.

BEFORE YOU ADD {{db-blanked}} MAKE SURE TO COPY AND PASTE ALL CONTENT from these pages TO (once you create it) User:Ghogan/sandbox

OTHERWISE YOU WILL LOSE YOUR WORK!

See also: Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion

Best,

Cyrusc 18:48, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Hi, please use your page User:Ghogan/Sandbox and User:Ghogan/Sandbox2 to do test. Try to avoid to create new pages. Thanks. Carlosguitar 16:59, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

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