The Mailer Review/Volunteer/Remediating Articles: Difference between revisions

For in-text citations, what will usually appear as MLA-style parenthetical, we use [[w:Template:Sfn|shortened footnotes]] <code><nowiki>{{sfn}}</nowiki></code>. First, add a section where your citations will appear, just above your works cited section:

Here’s an example of the shortened footnote at work in the body of the article:

This is a Wikipedia template. “Sfn” calls the template in the code; the author’s last name follows the first pipe (this must correspond with the name that follows <code><nowiki>|last=</nowiki></code> in the detailed citation in your works cited list); the year of the publication follows the next (exactly the same as <code><nowiki>|date=</nowiki></code> in the citation); and the page number(s) are put last. This will insert a footnote in the text; when a user clicks it, she is taken to the citation and if she clicks the citation, she is taken to the longer works cited entry. Rendered on the page, it will look like:

Notice its placement of the footnote code: '''right up against the period with no space in between'''. Footnote indications should always come ''after'' punctuation; never before. Try it on the example article I linked above. Simple and elegant.