[[File:Citing sources tutorial, part 1.ogv|thumb|upright=1.2|thumbtime=1|A screencast that walks through the essentials of citing your sources <small>(2:01 min)</small>]]
Inline citations is usually a number in brackets, like this;<ref>{{cite book|last=Wales|first=, J|title= (2020). "What is an inline citation?|year={{CURRENTYEAR}}|publisher=". Wikipublisher|pages=. p. 6}}.</ref> when clicked, it takes the reader to source information near the bottom of the article. (Try it!) An inline citation appears directly after a specific fact that the source supports, or at the end of a sentence, group of sentences, or paragraph that it supports.
When editing a page using the popular (most common) footnote style, an inline citationscitation aremight usuallylook placedsomething like this: <code><nowiki><ref></nowiki>Wales, J (2020). "What is an inline citation?". Wikipublisher. p. 6.<nowiki></ref></nowiki></code> tags. Note the closing slash ("/") in the second tag.
