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  2. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Captions

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    A caption is text that appears below an image. a Most captions draw attention to something in the image that is not obvious, such as its relevance to the text. A caption may be a few words or several sentences. Writing good captions takes effort; along with the lead and section headings, captions are the most commonly read words in an article ...

  3. Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    The term or article title appears in the author position. Use sentence case for multiple-word terms or titles, where you capitalize the first word, the first word after a colon, and proper nouns. The proper in-text citation is ("Plagiarism," 2004) for a paraphrased passage or ("Plagiarism," 2004, para. #) if you directly quote the material.

  4. APA style - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. APA style (also known as APA format) is a writing style and format for academic documents such as scholarly journal articles and books. It is commonly used for citing sources within the field of behavioral and social sciences, including sociology, education, nursing, criminal justice, anthropology, and psychology.

  5. Parenthetical referencing - Wikipedia

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    In the author–date method (Harvard referencing), [4] the in-text citation is placed in parentheses after the sentence or part thereof that the citation supports. The citation includes the author's name, year of publication, and page number(s) when a specific part of the source is referred to (Smith 2008, p.

  6. Wikipedia:Citing sources

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    In-text attribution is the attribution inside a sentence of material to its source, in addition to an inline citation after the sentence. In-text attribution may need to be used with direct speech (a source's words between quotation marks or as a block quotation ); indirect speech (a source's words modified without quotation marks); and close ...

  7. Help:Advanced text formatting - Wikipedia

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    Typography is the art and technique of setting written subject matter in type using a combination of typeface styles, point sizes, line lengths, line leading, character spacing, and word spacing to produce typeset artwork in physical or digital form. The same block of text set with line-height 1.5 is easier to read: Typography is the art and technique of setting written subject matter in type ...

  8. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Titles of works - Wikipedia

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    Paintings, sculptures and other works of visual art with a title rather than a name (for more detail, see WP:Manual of Style/Visual arts § Article titles) Periodicals (newspapers, journals, magazines) Plays (including published screenplays and teleplays) Long or epic poems: Paradise Lost by John Milton.

  9. Help:Footnotes - Wikipedia

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    Footnotes are used most commonly to provide: references (bibliographic citations) to reliable sources, explanatory information, or. source information for tables and other elements. Footnotes or shortened footnotes may be used at the editor's discretion in accordance with the guideline on Variation in citation methods.