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  2. Help:Shortened footnotes - Wikipedia

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    Shortened footnotes, also called shortened citations, are one method of citing sources for a Wikipedia article. They are a hybrid of standard footnotes and Harvard-style parenthetical referencing . Shortened footnotes, often with page numbers, appear in the reference section (wherever the reference list markup {{ reflist }} is placed) and ...

  3. Wikipedia:Citing sources - Wikipedia

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    Forms of short citations used include author-date referencing (APA style, Harvard style, or Chicago style), and author-title or author-page referencing (MLA style or Chicago style). As before, the list of footnotes is automatically generated in a "Notes" or "Footnotes" section, which immediately precedes the "References" section containing the ...

  4. Help:Overview of referencing styles - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia uses various referencing systems to cite sources that support assertions in the article and to add explanatory and supplementary material. This page compares two systems that are currently used (Footnotes and Shortened footnotes) and two older systems that are deprecated and no longer used for new articles (Footnote3 and Parenthetical referencing).

  5. Help:Citations quick reference - Wikipedia

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    Footnotes with list-defined references Shortened footnotes Citations can also be placed as external links , but these are not preferred because they are prone to link rot and usually lack the full information necessary to find the original source in cases of link rot.

  6. Help:Footnotes - Wikipedia

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    The remaining footnotes will use shortened citations (these usually contain the author's last name, the date of publication, and the relevant page number[s]). A less common approach is to attach a {{rp|page}} right after the footnote marker replacing the "page" with the appropriate page number or numbers. For example:

  7. Help:References and page numbers - Wikipedia

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    The following two examples use Shortened footnotes, showing the author(s) and date and page number(s) in the notes list and a separate list for the full reference. An advantage is that the list of full references can be sorted arbitrarily—for example, by author last name or by publication date.

  8. Help : Referencing for beginners with citation templates

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    The easiest way to start citing on Wikipedia is to see a basic example. The example here will show you how to cite a newspaper article using the {{ cite news }} template (see Citation quick reference for other types of citations).

  9. Wikipedia : Citing sources/Example edits for different methods

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    Inline parenthetical references are conceptually very much like shortened footnotes, but insert the shortened reference inline into the article body text rather than in a footnote. The advantages are that the source of the reference is shown more clearly, and getting to the full citation takes only one click rather than two with shortened ...