Skybluejjami

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Hello, Skybluejjami, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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Choosing an article to edit Editing an article • Add images to articles Citing sources on Wikipedia
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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:54, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

Creating a citation in source

Hi! Here's how to cite something in source:

• In source mode, click on the "cite" tab - it should be the last option in the editing bar. Clicking this will bring up several options, one of which is a drop down menu that has the name "templates".
• Click on the templates menu. This will bring up several different options for citations: web, news, book, and journal. Click on the one that's applicable for your source. I'm going to give an overview for journal. You should see this:

• You don't need to fill out all of the fields - you should fill out the basics, which will be the name of the author(s), title, Journal name, date, volume and issue (if applicable), and the page you're using (if available or applicable). You can also fill out the date accessed by clicking on the little number box next to the empty field - it'll fill it out for you. Basically, you want to fill out enough information so that people can track down the source if they wanted or needed to.
• Press the save button and the source will appear on the page. Save the article and voila - you have added a citation!

You can also create a citation if you have something that doesn't fall within those lines, such as a citation to a film. Just place reference tags around the completed citation (you can use any format, such as APA): <ref>Citation</ref>.

I hope this helps! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:16, 18 October 2018 (UTC)