Conservapedia:Footnotes - technical help
Conservapedia allows editors to place footnotes (usually to cite sources) in articles. Within a text, a footnote will appear like this: [1]
Clicking such a link takes the reader to the References section (usually located at the bottom of the article).
Contents
Basics
Creating footnotes
When editing an article, footnotes are created with the help of the reference ("ref") tag:
Article text.<ref>Footnote text</ref> More article text.
In the article, the above would look like this:
- Article text.[1] More article text.
Usually, the footnote text will be a web address (such as http://www.bouldercolorado.gov/index.php ) or the title of a book/article (with the relevant page and other information)
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:
==References==
<references/>
If you are editing a section of an article, the footnotes themselves will not show on the preview. To preview the footnotes add <references /> to the bottom of the section, but remember to delete it before submitting your changes.
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:
Article text.<ref name="MyFirstRef">Footnote text</ref> More article text.<ref name="MyFirstRef"/> Even more article text.
Doing so would create two footnote marks with the same number, pointing at the same footnote:
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 these two examples:
