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Referencing is important, as it provides a trail of evidence for the information on envirowiki, ultimately increasing its reliability.

Referencing should be split into three sections, each with their own heading.

• External Links: Links to web pages with information relevant to the article.
• Sources: General sources for the information in the article.
• References: Footnotes, including general notes, and sources for specific pieces of information (See Citing References, below).

[edit] 1 Citing References

To cite a reference in Envirowiki, use ref tags around the reference:

<ref name="blah">...</ref>

If you need to use the same reference twice, you can simply use a single ref tag, where "blah" is the name of the reference where it was first used:

<ref name="blah" />

[edit] 2 Displaying references

The reference will not appear in the body of the text, but will be replaced with a supertext footnote. The information contained within the tags will be added to a list of footnotes, which can be displayed with the references tag, preferably under it's own header (see help:formatting):

==References==
<references />

[edit] 3 Citation Templates

Templates are special pages that can be included in other pages. There are a number of citation templates. Using a citation template means that citation formatting will be standard accross the site. They also make it easy to make a neat citation without too much work.

Citation templates - such as template:Cite web, for websites - are usually use inside <ref name="blah">...</ref> takgs, like this:

<ref name="UsefulUniqueIdentifier"
{{cite web 
|url= Web address
|title= Title of the article
|accessdate= date you accessed the article, in case it later goes off-line
|last= Last name of author
|first= Author's first name(s)
|coauthors= Other authors' full names
|date= Date the article was published
|publisher= Website title, or publisher
}}
</ref>

Most citation templates have more options relevant to the type of citation. For the full list of citation templates, check out Category:Citation_templates