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Image copyright problem with Image:6271.jpg[edit]

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Re: citation format[edit]

Shanejez,

Here is some helpful information about references:

Suggestions for citation format[edit]

Here's how to footnote your citations in a "References" section:

EXAMPLE: Contributions to political campaigns[edit]

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Bank of America is the United States' forty-first largest donor to political campaigns, having contributed more than US$ 14 million since 1990, 54% and 46% of which went to Republican and Democratic recipients, respectively. A key political issue for Bank of America includes proposed changes to privacy laws. [1]

EXAMPLE: References[edit]

  1. ^ Donor Profile:Bank of America. opensecrets.org. Retrieved 25 October, 2007.

Here's what the wiki markup looks like for the above format (you can check the wiki markup for anything by clicking "edit this page"--wiki markup is what the edit screen displays.):

  • ===EXAMPLE: Contributions to political campaigns===
    According to the [[Center for Responsive Politics]], Bank of America is the United States' forty-first largest donor to political campaigns, having contributed more than US$ 14 million since [[1990]], 54% and 46% of which went to [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] and [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] recipients, respectively. A key political issue for Bank of America includes proposed changes to privacy laws. <ref>[http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.asp?ID=D000000090&Name=Bank+of+America Donor Profile:Bank of America. ''opensecrets.org''.] Retrieved 25 October, 2007.</ref>
    ===EXAMPLE: References===
    <references/>

Pay close attention to the code for:

  1. The footnote. It looks like this:
    <ref>[http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.asp?ID=D000000090&Name=Bank+of+America Donor Profile:Bank of America. ''opensecrets.org''.] Retrieved 25 October, 2007.
  2. The "references" section that automatically compiles your footnotes. It looks like this:
    ===References===
    <references/>

Together, they look like this:

  • <ref>[http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.asp?ID=D000000090&Name=Bank+of+America Donor Profile:Bank of America. ''opensecrets.org''.] Retrieved 25 October, 2007.</ref>
    ===References===
    <references/>.

In wiki markup, those two little bits of code display this:

  • [1] (that's the footnote)

References (example 2)[edit]

  • (that's the "References" section break, followed by the citations:)
  1. ^ Donor Profile:Bank of America. opensecrets.org. Retrieved 25 October, 2007.

And you use them like this:

  • Here's the fact[1] I'm citing.

The footnote will appear (together will all other footnotes on the page so far) wherever you place the <references> tag. Thus:

  1. ^ Donor Profile:Bank of America. opensecrets.org. Retrieved 25 October, 2007.

Note that every time I create a "references" section using the <references/> tag, that section compiles (and numbers) ALL the "ref tags" I've used on the entire page (i.e. the URL)--and displays them as footnotes. That's why the "References" sections in this message display progressively more iterations of the same footnote. The <references/> markup will treat each <ref>...</ref> tag as a new footnote, even if these tags contain exactly the same information. Here's a final demonstration:

  • This is a sample paragraph.[1] This is a sample sentence.[2] This is a new sample sentence.[3] This is another sample sentence.[4] This is the penultimate sample sentence.[5][6][7] This is the last sentence.[8]

References (example 4)[edit]

(What makes it a "references" section is simply this bit of code--<references/>--which I will proceed to type below:)

  1. ^ This is a sample source.
  2. ^ This is a repeat sample source.
  3. ^ This is a new sample source.
  4. ^ This is a repeat sample source.
  5. ^ This is yet another sample source.
  6. ^ This is a second sample source for a single citation.
  7. ^ This is a third sample source for the same fact.
  8. ^ THE END

See Also[edit]

  1. Wikitext (aka wiki markup)
  2. Wikipedia:Footnotes
  3. Help:Footnotes

Cheers,

Cyrusc 02:33, 26 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]


Another message from Cyrusc[edit]

I recommend that you delete all of your user sandbox pages except for User:Shanejez/sandbox.

The way to delete the supernumerary sandbox subpages is to add {{db-userreq}} to the top of each page you want to delete.

Best, Cyrusc 02:58, 26 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

NASA Environmental Management System (EMS)[edit]

NASA Environmental Management System (EMS) looks like a good start to a new article, but I am concerned that the entry is not yet clear enough. The article needs several sections, including an intro, a history, and perhaps a "leadership" or "employees" section. At this point, the reader who finds this article won't know whether she's reading about an agency, an ad campaign, etc.

My $.02,

Cyrusc 15:16, 16 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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