User talk:Ryanharb

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I am having trouble editing a wikipedia page in which I use multiple citations from the same source. The page is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_heating

Ryanharb (talk) 21:30, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

I'd like to have a separate notes and references section without having the same source listed in both - I'm just very confused. Could you take a look at the geothermal heating page and see what I mean? I'll check back in a little bit. Please don't delete it before I check again, thank you!

Greetings Ryanharb! Looking at the page, I don't think two sections are really necessary. You can use the same citation multiple times throughout the document by filling out the first then referring back to it at other points in the document, such as:

For the first instance: <ref name="heatpumps9-3">{{cite book |title=Heat Pumps .... |pages=p. 9-3}}</ref>

For each following: <ref name="heatpumps9-4">Goswami, ''et al.'' (2008), p. 9-4.</ref>

...where the ref name reflects the page number you are referencing. See how this works at the article University of Tennessee Forensic Anthropology Facility. For websites like the Union of Concerned Scientists, use the same form for the first instance and give the ref tag a unique name; if you are referencing the same page multiple times, just use <ref name="ucs" /> for every other instance. For more info, see Wikipedia:Footnotes.

Yeah, its a bit confusing, and if you would like, I'd be more than happy to rework the references so you can more easily see what I'm speaking of, and can apply this for other articles you work on. — Huntster (t • @ • c) 00:25, 1 May 2008 (UTC)