Editing Help:Footnotes (section)

==Footnotes: the basics==

{{See also|Help:Reftags}}

To create the footnote marker, determine the point in the page content where the marker is desired and enter the markup with the citation or note inside the {{tag|ref}} tags. For example:

{{markup
|<nowiki>This is page content.<ref>''LibreOffice For Starters'', First Edition, Flexible Minds, Manchester, 2002, p. 18</ref>
{{reflist}}</nowiki>
|This is page content.<ref>''LibreOffice For Starters'', First Edition, Flexible Minds, Manchester, 2002, p. 18</ref>
{{reflist}}
}}

The {{tl|reflist}} template will be explained in the next section.

The content inside the {{tag|ref}} will show in the reference list. The ref tags can be added anywhere a citation or note is needed. There must be content inside the tags, else an error will show.

===Where to place ref tags===
Ref tags should follow any punctuation (usually a period), not precede it; see [[WP:REFPUNC]]. There should be no space between the punctuation and the tag:

{{markup
|<nowiki>...text.<ref>Content of the reference</ref>
{{reflist}}</nowiki>
|...text.<ref>Content of the reference</ref> &nbsp; &nbsp; {{xt|Right}}
{{reflist}}
|<nowiki>...text<ref>Content of the reference</ref>.
{{reflist}}</nowiki>
|...text<ref>Content of the reference</ref>. &nbsp; &nbsp; {{!xt|Wrong (tag before punctuation)}}
{{reflist}}
|<nowiki>...text. <ref>Content of the reference</ref>
{{reflist}}</nowiki>
|...text. <ref>Content of the reference</ref> &nbsp; &nbsp; {{!xt|Wrong (space before tag)}}
{{reflist}}
}}

===Formatting ref tags===
The content of the ref tags can be formatted using most wiki markup or HTML markup, although techniques such as the [[Help:Pipe trick|pipe trick]] and [[Help:Substitution|template substitution]] will not work in footnotes. For example:

{{markup
|<nowiki>This is page content.<ref>''LibreOffice For Starters'', First Edition, Flexible Minds, Manchester, 2002, p. 18</ref>
{{reflist}}</nowiki>
|This is page content.<ref>''LibreOffice For Starters'', First Edition, Flexible Minds, Manchester, 2002, p. 18</ref>
{{reflist}}
}}

The ref tag content may also contain an internal or external link:

{{markup
|<nowiki>This is page content.<ref>''[http://www.example.org LibreOffice For Starters]'', First Edition, Flexible Minds, Manchester, 2002, p. 18</ref>
{{reflist}}</nowiki>
|This is page content.<ref>''[http://www.example.org LibreOffice For Starters]'', First Edition, Flexible Minds, Manchester, 2002, p. 18</ref>
{{reflist}}
}}

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