Note: the term "footnotes" seems to be losing currency; use "citation" instead.
See:
- User:SallyScot/Sandbox
- Wikipedia:Citing sources
- Wikipedia:Harvard citation template examples ({{[[Template:|]]}} is one example of this.)
- Wikipedia talk:Featured article criteria/Archive 6#Consistent references - mixing Harvard and Chicago
- My November (December?) 2007 survey, posted at the talk page of WP:CITE (I think)
- Wikipedia:Parenthetical referencing
- Help:Footnotes#Grouping footnotes
- {{Efn}} and {{Notelist}}
* Help:Shortened footnotes (with {{|tl|sfn}} and {{efn}})
Options as to what an editor sees in the body of the text:
- I. Basic <ref> tags with full citation information; sometimes <ref=name> with no information [in conjunction with <references> or {{reflist}} in the "References" (or similar) section] This is the most common format.
- II. <ref group=foobar> tags (in conjunction with <references group=foobar/>; for example, the "Note" group
- III. <cite>[[#NameDate| Name (date)</cite> (in conjunction with <cite id=NameDate>Full citation information</cite> (*not* two-way?)
- IV. Harvard citation templates - {{Harv}}, {{Harvcol}}, {{Harvnb}}, etc
- V. Embedded link (in conjunction with separate "References" section)
Options as to what a reader sees after clicking on a link:
- A. Full citation in references section
- B. Full information in "Notes" section.
- C. Partial citation (name and date) with link to full citation in another section. The link can be done (a) (done using a wikilink in the partial citation and a <cite=id> (to create an anchor along with citation formatting) in the other section; an
- D. Partial citation with no link to full citation (which is in a separate section)
Link between initial (partial) citation (in "Notes" section, typically) and the full citation (in the "References" section)
- i. Yes, one-way, done via wikilink and a <cite id=> anchor in separate section, or via the {{citation}} template.
- ii. No
Thoughts: either put this into a table (?), or make into a simple list (of all feasible parameters: (4 x 4 x 2) + 1 = 33 (max), with examples (either recent or Featured articles) for each, as in:
- IA (article, article, article) (easy to find)
- ICi (article, article, ... )
- IIICi (Finnish Civil War, article, article)
- IV (article, article, ... ) (find via template pages)
- V (Pope Francis)
May be hard to find some examples (so post a request at WP:VP); table may not be exhaustive (so get feedback).
Q: Is it possible to create an example page that uses I through IV simultaneously?
Note: take a look at Regrading in Seattle; some items in the "Notes" section link to the next section; some do not.