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Footnotes and references

Contents 1 Footnotes and references 1.1 Add your footnote text 1.2 Generate your footnotes and references= 1.3 Notes

If you need to include footnotes or references in an article, follow this procedure:

Add your footnote text

Key your footnote text between the tags
<ref>
and
</ref>
When saved or previewed, this will appear as a superscript bracketed number.^[1]

Generate your footnotes and references=

When you're finished with your text, add an appropriate heading, e.g.
==Notes==
and, on the next line,
<references/>.^[2]

The resulting notes will include up-arrows linking back to the original text, which makes it easy for people to check footnotes and continue reading the article.

It should wind up looking like this:

Notes

1. ↑ For example, this footnote generated a superscript [1].
2. ↑ Do remember to include the slash at the end of <references/>!

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