Wikipedia:Template index/Sources of articles/Citation quick reference: Difference between revisions

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indicate how exactly to use author-link when you want to link to more than one author, I MAY BE WRONG about how it can be author2-link or author-link2. (n.b. I may be wrong about other things too.)
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Use of these templates is manual, authors may copy-and-paste the desired template into their text, and erase fields they do not need. Remember the <nowiki>{{double curly braces}}</nowiki>, and a vertical bar between fields.
 
Introductory ("Beginner" and "Tutorial") pages such as the CITING SOURCES tab in the [[Wikipedia:Tutorial]] page do not necessarily cover templates. Another template which covers all these uses may be found at [[Template:Citation|Citation]]. For more information see [[Wikipedia:Citing sources]].
 
If you are using the inline reference citation style in your article (using <nowiki><ref></nowiki> tags to create footnotes), then these templates would go inside the <nowiki><ref></nowiki> tags as follows: