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This is part 2 of the citing sources tutorial, which will show you how to add citations on Wikipedia using the Cite function in the edit toolbar.
From an edit window, click the
cite button, which brings down a
bar of extra options. Here you can click the
templates pulldown menu, and then
select which kind of source you are trying to cite: a generic web page, a news article, a book, or a journal. For this example, we'll go with a
book. We're citing the part of this sandbox page that says "being bold is important on Wikipedia". And I have a book that backs that up. So clicking cite book
brings up fields where you can put in the author -- John Broughton -- and the
title -- Wikipedia: The Missing Manual -- and
the year
and publisher and
so on.
Another way to go is to
start with the ISBN. Then you can press the
search button next to it, and it will
fill in the rest of the info automatically. Another handy feature is the
Ref name field. Put in a short word or phrase to identify the source -- I'll call this one Broughton -- and it will be easy to cite the source multiple times without having to re-enter any info. If there's more you need to add to the citation, you can press the
show extra fields button, which
lets you add coauthors, editor, and other details.
Once you've added all the info you want for the citation,
press insert,
and the wiki code for the citation will be added right where the cursor was when you started the citation tool.
Add an edit summary,
save the page, and you
see the new citation, with a numbered superscript
linking to the footnote, just like with a manually-added citation. If you used the ref name feature,
then when you make another edit to the page, you can click
named references in the cite toolbar to
pull up a list of all the named references in the article. Pick the one you want, press insert, and it will
add the code for another reference to the same footnote. Another feature of the cite tool is
Error check. Press that button to
pull up the error checking options.
Select the ones you want and
press Check, and you'll get a
citation error report, listing any broken or duplicate references. And that's it!
Happy editing!