Help:Adding References to Articles

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Contents 1 Introduction 2 Add a Reference or Footnote 3 Finally Add a Reference Section at the Bottom of Your Article 4 References

Introduction

A reference or footnote is a note placed at the bottom of a page of a document to comment on a part of the main text, or to provide a reference for it, or both. The connection between the relevant text and its footnote is indicated by a number which appears both after the relevant text and before the footnote^[1].

Footnotes are sometimes useful for relevant text that would distract from the main point if embedded in the main text, yet are helpful in explaining a point in greater detail. Footnotes are also often used to cite references that are relevant to a text. Citation of sources are greatly encouraged by CSES Wiki.

Add a Reference or Footnote

1. Place a <ref> ... </ref> immediately after the sentence where you want a footnote number to appear.
2. Next, type the text of the note between the ref tags. For example if I typed this

This was on of the first articles I published <ref>J Fam Pract. 2000 Oct;49(10):921-3.</ref> 

It would appear as this

This was on of the first articles I published [2]

Finally Add a Reference Section at the Bottom of Your Article

1. Place the <references /> tag in a == Notes == or == References == section near the end of the article and the list of notes will be generated here.

References

1. ↑ Here's an example
2. ↑ J Fam Pract. 2000 Oct;49(10):921-3.

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