Help:How to write footnotes and references

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Here are the steps to incorporate footnotes and references into any article at AIDS Wiki.

Footnotes

To incorporate footnotes into an article:

1. Create a "Footnotes" section near the end of the article. This should be implemented at the level of 2 equals signs. (The preferred order of closing sections is "Quotes", "Documents", "See also", "External links", "Footnotes", "References", "Further reading", and "Credit".)
2. For each footnote you wish to create, do the following:
   1. Where you wish the link to the footnote to appear in the text of the article, type the fn-template ("footnote") {{fn|name}}, where "name" is a word or term you wish to associate with the footnote. Note: You cannot use punctuation or spaces in the name field.
   2. In the "Footnotes" section, find where the footnote occurs in order amongst the other footnotes. All the footnotes should be continuously bulleted by number using the symbol "#".
   3. Where the footnote should occur, bullet it ("#") and immediately follow the number bullet by the fnb-template ("footnote-back") as follows: {{fnb|name}}. You must use the same "name" you gave the footnote in the text. You also must place the footnote tag in the correct order to ensure the number matches the number assigned in the text.
3. If you find that the number of the footnotes in the text don't match the numbers in the footnotes section, then there is either extra fn-templates in the text, or else the fnb-templates are out of order.
4. An article with many examples of properly executed footnotes is AIDS dissident.

References

AIDS Wiki has templates set up to implement the Harvard referencing system. To incorporate references into an article:

1. Create a "References" section near the end of the article. This should be implemented at the level of 2 equals signs. (The preferred order of closing sections is "Quotes", "Documents", "See also", "External links", "Footnotes", "References", "Further reading", and "Credit".)
2. For each reference you wish to create, do the following:
   1. Where you wish the reference to appear in the text of the article, enclose the ref-template ("reference") {{ref|name|appear}} within a pair of parentheses, where "name" will be associated with the reference, and "appear" is how you wish the reference to appear. The need for the two fields arises because the name field cannot use any spaces. For example, suppose you wish to reference "Lang 1995". Since there is a space in this reference, you would type the ref-template as {{ref|Lang1995|Lang 1995}}. The name field omits the spaces.
   2. In the "References" section, find where the reference occurs alphabetically amongst the other references. All the references should be continuously bulleted by number using the symbol "#".
   3. Where the reference should occur, bullet it ("#") and immediately follow the number bullet by the refb-template ("reference-back") as follows: {{refb|name}}. You must use the same "name" (without spaces!) you gave the reference in the text.
3. Make the references 85% font size by enclosing them in the following commands: <div style="font-size:85%"> before; </div> after.
4. If you wish to reference multiple works at once, simply enclose multiple ref-templates within a single pair of parentheses.
5. If you wish to reference a work multiple times, you may do this by appending increasing numbers after periods to the "name" but without changing the field "appear". Then create a new entry for the reference in the list of references, immediately following the original reference. (Ideally, the multiple references should be kept in their original order from the article.) You will use the new "name" for this new refb-template, so that clicking on it will take the reader back to the new reference. For example, to reference "Lang 1995" a second time, use the ref-template {{ref|Lang1995.2|Lang 1995}} and then use the refb-template {{ref|Lang1995.2}} on a separate line immediately after the original refb-template {{ref|Lang1995}}. Follow this new refb-template with a ref-template "Ibid" to the original first reference. For example, in our Lang example, you would use {{ref|Lang1995|Ibid}} immediately following the refb-template. If there is optional information (page numbers, chapters, etc.) these should follow.
6. An article with many examples of properly executed references is AIDS dissident.