Help:Cite

The cite extension on Wikia allows you to add footnotes and references to articles, like this.

How to use it
Citations are enabled by default. To create a footnote or reference, simply switch to source mode while editing and then place your text inside   tags. In source mode, the first sentence on this page would look like this:


 * The cite extension allows you to add footnotes and references to articles, like this. 

At the end of the page create a references section and include the code  . This will create a numbered listing of your footnotes. Click this footnote to see:.

Named references
To give a footnote a unique identifier, use  . You can then refer to the same footnote again by using a ref tag with the same name. The name cannot be a number, or the extension will return an error.

Only the first occurrence of text in a named ref will be used, although that occurrence may be located anywhere in the article. For legibility, putting the full footnote first is recommended.

For subsequent identical references, use a terminated empty ref tag that looks like this:  .

When deleting content with footnotes, make sure you do not delete the named citation which holds all the reference information. This will result in an error for all the other footnotes depending on it. Remember to copy the   to one of the identical references.

Alternatively, you could modify Template:Reflist to look like this:

so that if you wanted to refer to the citation again, you could simply just put down  .

Citation needed!
If you find something that seems questionable in its authenticity, you can place at the end of the statement, which adds [citation needed] to the end of the statement.

The citation template
Once you get accustomed to using citations, you can then try using Template:Citation as the body of your citation. To use it, cite the template code and its parameters as you would regularly cite something, either with regular   tags or creating a citation which you can cite and then citing this citation.

Next steps

 * Creating Links
 * Templates

Further help and feedback
* Browse and search other help pages at Help:Contents
 * Check Help:Wikia Community Central for sources of further help and support
 * Check Help:Contacting Wikia for how to report any errors or unclear steps in this article