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  2. Wikipedia:Citing sources - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources

    For example, the album notes from Hurts 2B Human should not be cited as being from the album Hurts to be Human, or an X (formerly Twitter) user named "išŸ˜dogs" should not be cited as "i[love]dogs". Retain the original special glyphs and spelling. Use details in citing. Citations 1–3 are good, while citations 4–6 should be improved.

  3. Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    For example, proper in-text citation for a direct quote of fewer than 40 words is: "Plagiarism is the use of another person’s work (this could be his or her words, products or ideas) for personal advantage, without proper acknowledgment of the original work" ("Plagiarism," 2004, "Definition," para. 1).

  4. MLA Handbook - Wikipedia

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    MLA Style Manual, formerly titled MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing in its second (1998) and third edition (2008), was an academic style guide by the United States–based Modern Language Association of America (MLA) first published in 1985. MLA announced in April 2015 that the publication would be discontinued: the third ...

  5. Help:Overview of referencing styles - Wikipedia

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    The in-text cite may be defined with a name so they can be reused within the content and may be separated into groups for use as explanatory notes, table legends and the like. The reference list shows the full citations with a cite label that matches the in-text cite. The cite label is a caret ^ with a backlink to the in-text cite. When a named ...

  6. Wikipedia:When to cite - Wikipedia

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    Examples: "The capital of France is Paris" or "Humans normally have two arms and two legs." Plot of the subject of the article: If the subject of the article is a book or film or other artistic work, it is unnecessary to cite a source in describing events or other details. It should be obvious to potential readers that the subject of the ...

  7. Help:Citations quick reference - Wikipedia

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    In cases where citations are lacking, the template {} can be added after the statement in question. The following table shows examples of these ways of citing sources, categorized as "the good, the bad and the ugly".

  8. Help:Referencing for beginners - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners

    Inline citations are usually small, numbered footnotes like this. [1] They are generally added either directly following the fact that they support, or at the end of the sentence that they support, following any punctuation. When clicked, they take the reader to a citation in a reference section near the bottom of the article.

  9. Wikipedia:Inline citation/examples - Wikipedia

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    Sources / Citations / References templates are sometimes used to help automate citations. Examples are the {} and {} templates, which can work with one another to provide internal links between author-date citations and the related full citations (navigation forward is by clicking a link; navigation back is via the browser's "Back" button).