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Conservapedia:Footnotes - technical help (view source)
Revision as of 22:22, March 31, 2007
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Conservapedia allows editors to place footnotes (usually to cite sources) in articles. Within a text, a footnote will appear like this: <sup class="reference">[[#|[1]]]</sup>
'''Please see:''' [[Conservapedia: Example of a footnoted page]] in the meantime.
Clicking such a link takes the reader to the References section (usually located at the bottom of the article).
==Basics==
===Creating footnotes===
When editing an article, footnotes are created with the help of the reference ("ref") tag:
{{QuoteBox|Article text.'''<nowiki><ref></nowiki>'''Footnote text'''<nowiki><ref></nowiki>''' More article text.}}
In the article, the above would look like this:
:Article text.<sup class="reference">[[#|[1]]]</sup> More article text.
===Creating the References section===
If it was not already added during a previous edit, please add a References section at the bottom of an article. All references will show up there once you do so. Adding a References section is a simple two-liner:
{{QuoteBox|'''<nowiki>==</nowiki>References<nowiki>==</nowiki>'''<br/>'''<nowiki><references/></nowiki>'''}}
==Advanced Usage==
===Using a footnote more than once===
If you need to cite the same source more than once in an article, you can of course create a standard footnote each time. However, it saves space and work to use reference names:
{{QuoteBox|Article text.'''<nowiki><ref name="MyFirstRef"></nowiki>'''Footnote text'''<nowiki><ref></nowiki>''' More article text.'''<nowiki><ref name="MyFirstRef"/></nowiki>''' Even more article text.}}
Doing so would create two footnote marks with the same number, pointing at the same footnote:
:Article text.<sup class="reference">[[#|[1]]]</sup> More article text.<sup class="reference">[[#|[1]]]</sup> Even more article text.
Please note: The slash ("/") at the end of the second footnote tag is highly important. Usage of the Preview function is recommended.
==Examples==
To see how these things are being used in an actual article, please see [[Conservapedia: Example of a footnoted page|this example page]].