WikiQueer:Inline citation/examples

This page contains examples of various types of inline citations. Variations on all of the examples included here exist throughout WikiQueer.

WikiQueer's guideline on citation styles includes the following guidance: All citation techniques require detailed full citations to be provided for each source used. Full citations must contain enough information for other editors to identify the specific published work you used. There are a number of styles used in different fields. They all include the same information but vary in punctuation and the order of the author's name, publication date, title, and page numbers. Any of these styles is acceptable on WikiQueer so long as articles are internally consistent. You should follow the style already established in an article, if it has one. Where there is disagreement, the style used by the first editor to use one should be respected. There are some specific examples of citations here.

Simple parenthetical referencing
An often-seen style of parenthetical referencing is Author-date. Information on some alternative styles can be found here.


 * wikitext
 * This is some wikitext supported by a cite of a book written in 2000 by an author named Smith, with no page number specified.(Smith 2000), or $(Smith 2000)$, or, etc.
 * This is some wikitext supported by a cite of pages 3-5 of a book written in 2000 by an author named Smith.(Smith 2000:3-5), or (Smith 2000 pp.3-5) or $(Smith 2000:3-5)$, or $(Smith 2000$, or {{Harv|Smith|2000|pp=3-5}, or, etc.

Full citations in footnotes
Many articles use "&lt;Ref> tags" to remove inline citations to an endmatter section. Citations which are referenced multiple times may be collapsed. The text is expanded in the document where a "&lt;References />" tag or a reflist template appears. This is described more fully This citation style is sometimes termed "Shortened notes", and more information about it can be seen here, here and here.


 * wikitext
 * This is some wikitext supported by a cite of a book written in 2000 by an author named Jones, with no page number specified.
 * This is some wikitext supported by a cite of pages 3-5 of a book written in 2000 by an author named Jones.
 * This is text supported by a second reference to a citation declared elsewhere.

Parenthetical style references in footnotes
Parenthetical-style references are often placed in footnotes. This example uses the reflist template instead of the &lt;References /> tag, and uses the refbegin along with refend templates to similarly format full citations placed after the numbered footnotes. In This citation style is sometimes termed "Shortened notes", and more information about it can be seen here.


 * wikitext
 * This is some wikitext supported by a cite of a book written in 2000 by an author named Adams, with no page number specified.
 * This is some wikitext supported by a cite of pages 3-5 of a book written in 2000 by an author named Adams.
 * This is text supported by a second reference to a citation declared elsewhere.

Harvnb and Citation templates
Sources / Citations / References templates are sometimes used to help automate citations. Examples are the Harvnb and Citation templates, which can work with one another to provide internal links between author-date citations and the related full citations (navigation forward is by clicking a link; navigation back is via the browser's "Back" button).

This example places the footnotes in an endmatter section named Notes, and places the full citations into a section named References.


 * wikitext
 * This is some wikitext supported by a cite of a book written in 2000 by an author named Marsh, with no page number specified.
 * This is some wikitext supported by a cite of pages 3-5 of a book written in 2000 by an author named Marsh.
 * This is text supported by a second reference to a citation declared elsewhere.