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This is part 2 of the citing sources tutorial,

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which will show you how to add citations on Wikipedia

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using the Cite function in the edit toolbar.

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From an edit window, click the

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cite button, which brings down a

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bar of extra options. Here you can click the

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templates pulldown menu, and then

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select which kind of source you are trying to cite:

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a generic web page, a news article, a book, or a journal.

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For this example, we'll go with a book.

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We're citing the part of this sandbox page

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that says "being bold is important on Wikipedia". 

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And I have a book that backs that up.

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So clicking cite book

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brings up fields where you can put in

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the author -- John Broughton -- 

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and the title -- Wikipedia: The Missing Manual --

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and the year

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and publisher and so on.

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Another way to go is to

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start with the ISBN. Then you can press the

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search button next to it, and it will

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fill in the rest of the info automatically.

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Another handy feature is the Ref name field.

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Put in a short word or phrase to identify the source

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 -- I'll call this one Broughton -- 

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and it will be easy to cite the source multiple times

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without having to re-enter any info.

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If there's more you need to add to the citation,

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you can press the show extra fields button,

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which lets you add coauthors, editor, and other details.

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Once you've added all the info you want for the citation,

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press insert, and the wiki code for the citation

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will be added right where the cursor was

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when you started the citation tool.

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Add an edit summary,

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save the page,

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and you see the new citation,

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with a numbered superscript linking to the footnote,

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just like with a manually-added citation.

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If you used the ref name feature,

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then when you make another edit to the page,

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you can click "named references" in the cite toolbar

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to pull up a list of all the named references in the article.

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Pick the one you want, press insert,

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and it will add the code

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for another reference to the same footnote.

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Another feature of the cite tool is error check.

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Press that button to pull up the error checking options.

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Select the ones you want and press "Check",

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and you'll get a citation error report,

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listing any broken or duplicate references.

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And that's it!

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Happy editing!