The information in footnotes is different from the information provided in APA annotated bibliographies. Provides the month and year of the citation request e.g.Footnotes are a way for the author to provide additional content to their papers without distracting the reader from the text. Example Parenthetical citations should be converted to ]. Text to replace the word 'article', usually 'section' Example sectionĪ description of the issue, to add to the end of the text in the generated tag.

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters. This template indicates that the article uses many improperly formatted or non-formatted inline citations that require large-scale conversion to an accepted form of inline citation. Wikipedia:Citing sources/Example edits for different methods.Davidson, Hazel Court, Dorothy (2011).Incorrect: Australia has a government (Australian Government Press Agency, 2009). The recommendation is to convert inline parenthetical references to shortened footnotes (as depicted below) or regular footnotes (as depicted in the first example above) or footnotes with list-defined references. Inline parenthetical referencing was a previously accepted citation system that is now deprecated per WP:PARREF. Incorrect: Australia has a government see footnote 1 Inline parenthetical reference (incorrect) Incorrect: Australia has a government Australian Government. This template is appropriate for articles that contain many such citations, therefore requiring large-scale conversion.

The following are examples of improperly formatted or non-formatted inline citations. A bot will add the date for you at a later time if you forgot.Įxamples In-line reference using ref tags (correct) Ī standard, correct way of formatting the following citations (with some acceptable variations as described at Wikipedia:Citing sources) would be:.This template will add the page to Category:Articles needing footnote reformatting and Category:Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify.

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