User:Daniel Mietchen/Talks/DigitalFossil Berlin 2012/Wikipedia Workshop I/Citing references
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Why cite?edit
Adding inline citationseditThe easiest way to create an inline citation is using footnotes. You can create footnotes with Wiki markup (or using the console) by adding:
Formatting sourceseditIf your source is a website, you should create an external link to the website address. To create an external link to your source, put the website address (URL) in square brackets. It is a good idea to provide a short description just after the external site address. This description will be displayed in the reference list as the title of the external site, rather than the actual URL of the site.
The external links sectioneditMany Wikipedia articles have a separate section labelled External links. This section is for linking to websites with significant and reliable additional information on an article's topic. Not all external links are appropriate for use in a Wikipedia article, see Wikipedia:External links for a guideline. Before adding a website to an External links section, it is advised that you suggest it on the article's Discussion (talk) page. Inside a single set of brackets, simply type in the full URL for the link, followed by a space and the text that will be visible, for example:
will display the following, whilst linking to the full URL: |