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Help:Referencing for beginners/sandbox 2020

Need for references

All serious books use references. It is Wikipedia policy.

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Inline citations

We add the reference after the fact. In its simplest form, it is written Name, Date . However that is a lot more to learn.

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Tool bar in the editor

You can set up the editor to help.Press the button 'Cite'.

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Reliable sources

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See also

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