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If you forget to include <nowiki><references /></nowiki> in the article, the footnotes will not appear, but a red error message will be displayed at the end of the page. | If you forget to include <nowiki><references /></nowiki> in the article, the footnotes will not appear, but a red error message will be displayed at the end of the page. | ||
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According to scientists, the Sun is pretty big.<font color="red">'''<nowiki><ref></nowiki>'''E. Miller, ''The Sun'', (New York: Academic Press, 2005), 23-5.'''<nowiki></ref></nowiki>''' | According to scientists, the Sun is pretty big.<font color="red">'''<nowiki><ref></nowiki>'''E. Miller, ''The Sun'', (New York: Academic Press, 2005), 23-5.'''<nowiki></ref></nowiki>''' | ||
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== See Also == | == See Also == | ||
Extension:Cite/Cite.php - [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cite.php] For more information on the Cite.php Extension. | Extension:Cite/Cite.php - [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cite.php] For more information on the Cite.php Extension. | ||
Revision as of 08:08, 9 January 2012
Usage
The basic concept of the <ref> tag is that it inserts the text enclosed by the ref tags as a footnote in a designated section, which you indicate with the placeholder tag . This format cannot be used interchangeably with the older format — you must pick one or the other.
If you forget to include <references /> in the article, the footnotes will not appear, but a red error message will be displayed at the end of the page.
Example
According to scientists, the Sun is pretty big.<ref>E. Miller, The Sun, (New York: Academic Press, 2005), 23-5.</ref>
The Moon, however, is not so big.<ref>R. Smith, "Size of the Moon", Scientific American, 46 (April 1978): 44-6.</ref>
Notes
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Sample Footnotes
According to scientists, the Sun is pretty big.[1] The Moon, however, is not so big.[2]
Notes
See Also
Extension:Cite/Cite.php - [1] For more information on the Cite.php Extension.
