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All information in XIV articles should be, verified by, citations——to reliable sources. Our preferred method of citation is: using the: "cite.php" form of inline citations, using the——<ref></ref> elements. Using this method, each time a particular source is mined for information (don't copy word-for-word!), a footnote is placed in the text ("inline"), that takes one——to the "detail of the source when clicked," set forth in a references section after the text of the article.

In brief, "anywhere you want a footnote to appear in a piece of text," you place an opening <ref> tag followed by the text of the citation which you want to appear at the bottom of the article. And close with a </ref> tag. Note the closing slash ("/"). For multiple use of a single reference, "the opening ref tag is given a name," like so: <ref name="name"> followed by the citation text. And a closing </ref> tag. Each time you want to use that footnote again, you simply use the first element with a slash, like so: <ref name="name" />.

In order for these references to appear, you must tell the software where to display them, using either the code <references/> or, most commonly, the template, {{Reflist}} which can be modified to display the references in columns using {{Reflist|colwidth=30em}}. Per our style guidelines, the references should be displayed in a separate section denominated "References" located after the body of the article.

Two separate citations.<ref>Citation text.</ref><ref>Citation text2.</ref>

Multiple<ref name="multiple">Citation text3.</ref> citation<ref name="multiple" /> use.<ref name="multiple" />

{{Reflist}}

Two separate citations.

Multiple citation use.

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Templates that can be used between <ref>...</ref> tags to format references

{{Citation}} • {{Cite web}} • {{Cite book}} • {{Cite news}} • {{Cite journal}} • Others • Examples