Help:Cite

The cite extension on Wikia allows you to add footnotes and references to articles, like this.

How to use it
Citations are enabled by default. To create a footnote or reference, simply switch to source mode while editing and then place your text inside   tags. In source mode, the first sentence on this page would look like this:


 * The cite extension allows you to add footnotes and references to articles, like this. 

At the end of the page create a references, footnotes, or citations section and include the code ''' or   just after the text in question.

To create one of these templates, start a new page called Template:Fact. Switch to source mode, and paste the following code into the page:

...which creates [citation needed].

Then publish the template.

More fun with citations
Eventually, you may want to create templates specifically for use in references to keep order - for example, a template for web addresses, another for book references.

Finally, you may wish to customize the references list design itself, such as giving it two columns or reducing the text size slightly. See as an example.

Citation templates
If your wikia deals with an academic subject, you may wish to have default citation templates, including cite book, and cite journal. The non-Lua versions of these templates can be found for example, on w:c:psiepsilon:Template:Cite book and w:c:psiepsilon:Template:Cite journal.

Next steps

 * Creating Links
 * Templates

Further help and feedback
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