Help:Reference display customization

You can customize the appearance of inline cites and the reference list by adding any of these rules to your CSS. After editing, bypass your cache.

Reference list

 * Change 90% to the desired size. See also Special:Preferences → Gadgets → Disable smaller font sizes of elements such as Infoboxes, Navboxes and References lists.


 * See web colors.


 * To set a fixed number of columns, change  to the desired number.


 * You can alter the appearance of the dividers by changing the values.

To show the reference list in a collapsible box, see User:TheDJ/Folded references.

In-text cites
Keep reference superscript and subscript text from breaking the line-spacing

This fixes a cosmetic issue with Internet Explorer where a wikilink followed immediately by an in-text cite may cause the link and cite to be underlined together; not supported by IE6 and IE7

This will join the in-text cite to the preceding text, preventing it from wrapping; it does not add a space; does not work for Internet Explorer

This will join the in-text cite to the preceding text, preventing it from wrapping; a space will show between the text and the in-text cite; not supported by IE6 and IE7

Hide the brackets for the inline cite

Hide in-text cites

Larger, bolder in-text citations

Inconspicuous in-text citations

The :before and :after pseudo-elements are not supported by IE6 and IE7

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