YouWiki:Citing sources

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Most content on YouWiki is the original work of the YouWikian/s who wrote it, however, for copyright/plagiarism purposes, as well as the referencing ability of the reader, non-original work must be cited.

To cite your sources, simply use the <ref> tag. This tag enables you to use an in-text citation and to generate an automatic reference list at the end of the document.

These tags are activated by the Cite^[1] extension, which adds two parser^[2] hooks to MediaWiki.

1 In-text citation using Cite
- 1.1 An example of an in-text citation
2 The {{reflist}} tag
3 References

[edit] In-text citation using Cite

To include an in-text citation using Cite, simply use the <ref> tag (the first of the two parser hooks installed by Cite).

[edit] An example of an in-text citation

This is a statement. <ref>Example reference: Name, date, title, journal etc http://www.url.com</ref>

This will appear like this:

This is a statement. ^[3]

[edit] The {{reflist}} tag

The second parser hook is incorporated in the reflist template, which can be used by typing

{{reflist}}

This will produce a list of all the citations in the text, and will order them according to occurrence. This is usually included under the heading References (==References==) at the end of the document.

For an example of this, see the References section of this document.