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If you've read many Wikipedia articles, then you'll have seen plenty of inlineInline citations. These are usually small, numbered footnotes which link to a full source in a reference section when clicked, like this,.<ref>{{cite book |author-last=Wales |author-first=JJimmy |title=What is an inline citation? |yeardate=2012{{CURRENTYEAR}} |publisher=Wikipublisher |pagespage=6}}</ref> although [[Wikipedia:Inline citations|sometimes other styles are used]]. They are generally added either directly afterfollowing the fact that they support, or at the end of the sentence afterthat they support, following any punctuation. When clicked, they take the reader to a citation in a reference section near the bottom of the article.
WhenWhile editing a page usingthat uses the popularmost common footnotesfootnote style, you will see inline citations are usuallydisplayed between <code><nowiki><ref></nowiki></code> and <code>...<nowiki></ref></nowiki></code> tags.
All the references then appear together on the page, wherever the {{tl|Reflist}} template or <code><nowiki><references /></nowiki></code> tag is present. This will usually be in a section titled "References". If you are creating a brand new page, or adding references to a page that didn't previously have any, don't forgetremember to add a referencesReferences section like the one below, or the citations you went to all that effort adding won't show up. See [[Wikipedia:Manual_of_StyleManual of Style/Layout#Order_of_sectionsOrder of article elements|wherenear tothe place itend]]. of the article:
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