Template:Format footnotes/doc#Parenthetical reference

When to use

This template indicates that the article uses many improperly formatted or non-formatted inline citations that require large-scale conversion to an accepted form of inline citation.

How to use

To add this template to an article, copy and paste:

{{tlx|{{PAGENAME}}|{{subst:DATE}}}}

:or

{{tlx|{{PAGENAME}}|date{{=}}{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}}}

Both options result in the same output.

This template will add the page to :Category:Articles needing footnote reformatting and :Category:Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify.
A bot will add the date for you at a later time if you forgot.

Examples

=In-line reference using ref tags (correct)=

A standard, correct way of formatting the following citations (with some acceptable variations as described at Wikipedia:Citing sources) would be:

{{em|Correct}}: {{xt|Australia has a government.{{cite web |url=http://www.australia.gov.au/ |title=Australian Government |author=Australian Government Press Agency |date=25 November 2009 |accessdate=25 November 2009}}}}

{{Reflist-talk}}

The following are examples of improperly formatted or non-formatted inline citations. This template is appropriate for articles that contain many such citations, therefore requiring large-scale conversion.

= Embedded link (incorrect) =

{{em|Incorrect}}: {{!xt|Australia has a government [http://www.australia.gov.au/ Australian Government].}}

or:

{{em|Incorrect}}: {{!xt|Australia has a government.[http://www.australia.gov.au/]}}

= Manual number (incorrect) =

{{em|Incorrect}}: {{!xt|Australia has a government^{see footnote 1}}}

= Inline parenthetical reference (incorrect) =

Inline parenthetical referencing was a previously accepted citation system that is now deprecated per WP:PARREF. The recommendation is to convert inline parenthetical references to shortened footnotes (as depicted below) or regular footnotes (as depicted in the first example above) or footnotes with list-defined references.

{{em|Incorrect}}: {{!xt|Australia has a government (Australian Government Press Agency, 2009).}}

{{em|Correct}}: {{xt|Australia has a government.{{sfn |Davidson |Court |2011 |p=1}}}}

{{Reflist-talk}}

::;Sources

::*{{cite book |last=Davidson |first=Hazel |last2=Court |first2=Dorothy |title=Australian Government |publication-place=Chapel Hill, Qld |publisher=Sugarbag on Damper |year=2011 |isbn=9780975759387 |oclc=697121237}}