Template:Edit refs/sandbox
==References==
{{reflist}} or <references />
The text of citations is actually in the body of the article, directly next to statements or paragraphs the citations support, using <ref>...</ref>
tags, which display as Footnotes (e.g.[1][2]) when you are reading an article. The template code shown above in the references section collates and displays all of the citations within the article in a numbered list in which the numbers correspond to the footnote numbers in the text. By clicking on the ^ symbol next to a citation display, you can easily find exactly where in the body of the article the citation text appears in order to edit it. For more, please see Help:Referencing for beginners.
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This template addresses the not uncommon confusion encountered when users first seek to edit inline citations, but instead of finding the citations' text in the references section, see only {{Reflist}} or <references/>.
Usage
- This template should always be substituted by prefixing "subst:" inside the template code. Thus, use {{subst:
Edit refs}}
, rather than{{Edit refs}}
. - You can indent the template by typing one or more colons before the template code, e.g.,
:{{subst:Edit refs}}
. - The indentation level you specify using colons, per above, is maintained across the template's paragraph breaks by the use of <p> tags, instead of line breaks.
- The template does not include automatic signing. Please remember to sign by typing four tildes (~) after the template syntax.
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