Help:Introduction to referencing with Wiki Markup / 2

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{{Shortcut|WP:INTREF2}} If you've read many Wikipedia articles, then you've seen plenty of inline citations. These are usually small, numbered footnotes like this. They are generally added either directly following the fact that they support, or at the end of the sentence that they support, following any punctuation. When clicked, they take the reader to a full source in a reference section near the bottom of the article.

When editing a page using the popular (most common) footnote style, inline citations are usually placed  tags. Note the closing slash ("/") in the second tag.

The information within references is displayed together in one place on a page, wherever  or, most commonly, the template {{tlx|Reflist}} is present. This will usually be in a section titled "References". If you are creating a new page, or adding references to a page that didn't previously have any, remember to add a References section like the one below. The Manual of Style describes where to place such a section.