Forum:How to make the citation templates work properly?

Hello everyone.

So I'm trying to help out this wiki. One of the things I'm trying to do, is make it to where you can cite sources, reference, and all that. Basically, what I did, is I copy/pasted all the templates I thought I needed from Wikipedia and put them into the wiki. Now I don't see any redlinks anymore in the reflist template, but it still looks VERY weird and buggy. I know I'm missing SOMETHING. But what am I missing?

Here's a sandbox article so I can show you what I mean:

http://reptiles.wikia.com/index.php?title=Reptile_Wiki:Sandbox&oldid=2749

--Thesaurus Rex 10:58, August 26, 2010 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia's code is not very good to use on Wikia. Its probably better to use w:c:templates. —Manyman (talk) 12:22, August 26, 2010 (UTC)


 * I haven't looked at it, but you might be missing the CSS to go with these templates. -- ◄mendel► 16:20, August 26, 2010 (UTC)


 * This forum post may help. w:c:rappelz:Forum:Acknowledging your Sources using Footnotes Don't bother with the cite template - the REF tags are easy enough to use and you are in direct control of what appears in the footnote this way.
 * -- najevi 18:32, August 26, 2010 (UTC)


 * So how do I fix it? Thesaurus Rex 06:40, August 27, 2010 (UTC)
 * Lemme try to re-word that, sounded too vague. Do I simply delete all of the templates I pulled in from Wikipedia, since I didn't need them anyway? What templates SHOULD I bring in regarding this matter? And how do I make the reflist text smaller, like how they have it in Wikipedia and other wikis? --Thesaurus Rex 07:59, August 27, 2010 (UTC)
 * Lemme try to re-word that, sounded too vague. Do I simply delete all of the templates I pulled in from Wikipedia, since I didn't need them anyway? What templates SHOULD I bring in regarding this matter? And how do I make the reflist text smaller, like how they have it in Wikipedia and other wikis? --Thesaurus Rex 07:59, August 27, 2010 (UTC)