For an image or other media file, details of its origin and copyright status should appear on its file page. Image captions should be referenced as appropriate just like any oth… See more

Citations are not used on disambiguation pages (sourcing for the information given there should be done in the target articles). Citations are often omitted from the lead section of a… See more

Material that is repeated multiple times in a paragraph does not require an inline citation for every mention. If you say an elephant is a mammal more than once, provide on… See more

To create a footnote, use the <ref>...</ref>syntax at the appropriate place in the article text, for example: 1. Justice is a human invention.<ref>Rawls, John. ''A Theory of J… See more

Listed below is the information that a typical inline citation or general reference will provide, though other details may be added as necessary. This information is included in order to i… See more