English subtitles for clip: File:Citing sources tutorial, part 1.ogv

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This tutorial demonstrates the bare essentials of how to cite sources with footnotes on Wikipedia pages.

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You can try out the mechanics of creating footnotes in your own user sandbox page. 

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If you don't already have a sandbox, go to the page ''Help:Sandbox tutorial'' for instructions on starting one.

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Now, let's edit the sandbox. First we need to create a section for the footnotes. 

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Create a section at the bottom of the page, by adding two equal signs, then the name of the section -- say, ''Notes'' -- then two more equal signs.

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Now we have a special bit of code beneath the section header -- a template -- to mark where the footnotes get displayed.

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It's the word ''reflist'' inside two sets of curly brackets.

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Now let's add a citation.  This page includes the claim that "Being bold is important on Wikipedia". 

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We should back that up with a footnote saying the "Be Bold" guideline, which says that when you find a problem on Wikipedia, you should just be bold and fix it.

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In the most basic form, a footnote consists of the text of the footnote between opening and closing ''ref'' tags.  

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So right after the sentence about being bold, we had a ref tag, then our citation -- Be bold guideline, Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, retrieved on such and such date -- then a closing ref tag.

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Now enter an edit summary and save the page, and we can see the result. 

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The numbered superscript appears where we added the ''ref'' tags, and that links to the corresponding text of the citation in the notes section.

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The next tutorial demonstrates how to use the ''cite'' function in the editing toolbar, which is a way to automatically create well-formatted footnotes. 

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Until then, be bold, and cite often!