Wikipedia:Citing sources
- Wikicite is a free program that helps editors to properly reference their Wikipedia contributions using citation templates. It is written in Visual Basic .NET, making it suitable only for users with the .NET Framework installed on Windows, or, for other platforms, the Mono alternative framework. Wikicite and its source code is freely available, see the developer's page for further details.
- pubmed2wiki.xsl a XSL stylesheet transforming the XML output of pubmed to Wikipedia refs.
- User:Richiez has tools to automatically handle citations for a whole article at a time. Converts occurences of {{pmid XXXX}} or {{isbn XXXX}} to properly formatted footnote or harvard style references. Written in ruby and requires a working installation with basic libraries.
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See also
- Wikipedia:Verification methods - listing examples of the most common ways that references are used in Wikipedia articles.
- Wikipedia:Citing sources/example style – listing examples of full references using APA and Harvard referencing techniques.
- Wikipedia:Citing sources/Example edits for different methods - showing comparative edit mode representations for different citation methods and techniques.
- Wikipedia:Citing sources/Further considerations - information of additional interest.
- Wikipedia:Citation templates – a full listing of various styles for citing all sorts of materials.
- Wikipedia:Copyright problems – in case of text that has been copied verbatim inappropriately.
- Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners – a simple practical guide to getting started.
- Wikipedia:Scientific citation guidelines – guidelines for dealing with scientific and mathematical articles.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Citation cleanup - a group of people devoted to cleaning citations
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Notes
- ^ "Caffeine" in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, 2000.
- ^ Davis, Martin (2006), "The Church–Turing Thesis: Consensus and opposition". Proceedings, Computability in Europe 2006. Lecture notes in computer science, 3988 pp. 125–132.
- ^ The Chicago Manual of Style, 14th ed. 1993, Clause 15.8, p. 494 - "The superior numerals used for note reference numbers in the text should follow any punctuation marks except the dash, which they precede. The numbers should also be placed outside closing parentheses." - See also CMoS Online, Style Q&A, Punctuation.
- ^ Other style guides suggesting that superscript note reference numbers should generally be placed after punctuation include: Oxford/Hart's Rules, the MLA Style Manual, APA Style, Dictionary.com, IEEE style and Legal Blue Book Style (as well as the general exception for dashes, guides may variously make other exceptions for colons, semicolons and quotation marks).
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References
- Concordia Libraries (Concordia University). Citation and Style Guides. (This provides a list of common citation styles.)
- Citation Styles Handbook: APA
- Citation Styles Handbook: MLA
- APA Style.org
- Using American Psychological Association (APA) Format (Updated to 5th Edition)
- Citing Electronic Documentation (APA, Chicago, MLA)
- The Columbia Guide to Online Style
- Ritter, R. (2002). The Oxford Style Manual. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860564-1
- University of Chicago Press Staff. (2003). The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition. University Of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-10403-6
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