User talk:Katie44gb

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Welcome

I am a member of the medicine and neuroscience wikiprojects. I find your term project very interesting, so I only wanted to say hello, and offer my help for any questions you have (either about neuroscience, although my field is neuropsychology and not basic neuroscience, or about wikipedia in general). Feel free to post any questions or requests at my talk page and try to have fun around here... Bests.--Garrondo (talk) 11:09, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

Answer

Hey Katie. My group used the shortcut that looks like this:

(You are going to need to go into the Edit section to see what the coding looks like)

I filled out all the necessary pieces of information for each citation and then copied&pasted that whole link write next to whatever I was citing. Every time you use that same citation later on in the article you can just use the 'ref name' portion of that shortcut (everything before the {{cite... )

This should add the same number next to the sentence being cited and not double up your references section with multiples of the same citation. If you are already using this shortcut, then some trouble may come from using it more than once in different areas. If you try to cite the same thing using that shortcut, but there are subtle differences between each one (for example a missing or added space), then the references page counts it as two different citations. Let me know if this helps. Good luck! Sean J. Dikdan (talk) 19:22, 20 April 2011 (UTC)