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If you've read many Wikipedia articles, then you'll have seen plenty of inline citations. These are usually small numbered footnotes which link to a full source in a reference section when clicked, like this.<ref>{{cite book|last=Wales|first=J|title=What is an inline citation?|year=2012|publisher=Wikipublisher|pages=6}}</ref> They are generally added directly after the fact they support, or at the end of the sentence after any punctuation.

When editing a page, inline citations canare be spottedusually 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 forget to add a Referencesreferences section like the one below, or the citations you went to all that effort adding won't show up!

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== References ==