Help:Footnotes

Footnotes is a supplementary ornament used within MediaWiki-based documenting. This can be divided into both Notes and References segments where respective information can be specified.

In short, the references section provides citations of reliable sources of any kind of information; meanwhile the scope of notes can be slightly loose as some explanatory or inferred content can be addressed. The references feature is a built-in HTML-like function that can be called directly using <ref>...</ref>, <references /> and <references>...</references> (the latter ones are analogous). To ease editing, some useful templates can be used, for example, the most common instance is the template {{reflist}} whereby it acts as a better replacement of the <references /> (yet their effects are interchangeable).

How to use it

The general format for ref tags is <ref>...</ref>, where ... represents the text within the tags; the representations will always be a superscript beside the string of text. When the wiki user clicks on the superscript, they will be automatically redirected towards the location of where the references section to view the corresponding text. However, each ref tag can be assigned a unique identifier/name, using name="xx" thus it can be reused on the same page, rather than citing it again, which would cause unnecessary duplication.