Wikipedia:WikiProject Kent/Citing sources

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For more detailed information on citing sources see Wikipedia:Citing sources

The ^{[citation needed]} marker was placed in the article to request further details of the source of a fact or quote.

To provide a reference add the following at the end of the point requiring citation

<ref>[link (including the "http://www."etc if web) then a space and then any text]</ref>
or <ref name="name or number">[link] text</ref>
eg <ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Kent The Kent Portal]</ref>

At the end of the article it will need

==References==

{{subst:footnotes}}

placed after all paragraphs but before any Category links

if the same ref name is used again the reference will have the same number but be named abc etc

to just add a foot note, leave the [link] out, just insert text.

[edit] Example

==Section==
The article will look like this.
<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Kent The Kent Portal]</ref> 

If an article is cited
<ref name="Kent">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Kent WikiProject Kent]
 The Kent Project</ref>

With a second citation from the same source 
<ref name="Kent">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Kent WikiProject Kent] 
The Kent Project</ref> using an identical reference tag

==References==

{{subst:footnotes}}

it would appear as -