User talk:Slush129
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I am now going to add my signature, using ~~~~: -- PhantomSteve (Contact Me, My Contribs) 12:36, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
If you find a book, magazine, newspaper article, etc that you want to use as a reference, just type one of the following after the information in the article which the reference is about:
- Newspaper/Magazine article:
<ref>''Title of article'',author of article, (Title of newspaper/magazine, date of article)</ref>
- Book:
<ref>''Title of book'', author of book, (publisher, date of publication)</ref>
- Website:
<ref>[http://web-page-address ''Title of webpage''], author of page, date of page's creation, website name</ref>
For example:
- Newspaper/Magazine article:
<ref>''An article in a well-known newspaper'', John E. Beegood, (The New York Times, 1 August 1987)</ref> - Book:
<ref>''How do I create references?'', Met-al Icca, (Heinemann Publishing, 1964)</ref> - Website:
<ref>[http://www.a-reputable-website.org/a_useful_page.html ''How to Create Useful References''], PhantomSteve, 12 March 1999, a-reputable-website.org</ref>
Then at the bottom of the page, make sure you have the following two lines:
==References==
<references/> -or- {{reflist}}
This would generate (for the above examples):
References
- ^ An article in a well-known newspaper, John E. Beegood, (The New York Times, 1 August 1987)
- ^ How do I create references?, Met-al Icca, (Heinemann Publishing, 1964)
- ^ How to Create Useful References, PhantomSteve, 12 March 1999, a-reputable-website.org
With basic references like this in place, more experienced editors can tidy them up! The hard bit can be finding references!
Please make sure you read the guideline Reliable Sources which details the kind of sources Wikipedia prefers to use.
If you have any questions, just ask me! Regards, -- PhantomSteve (Contact Me, My Contribs) 12:36, 15 October 2009 (UTC)