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{{Wikicite}} creates an anchor, for use in a "References" section for books, journals, web references, etc. The anchor should be linked-to in the body of the article.

The reference text may be formatted manually, and the template merely adds an anchor for linking from in-text citations. This template is also useful when using a citation template that does not support the |ref= parameter (for example, {{Ws}}).

This template is only needed for handwritten citations, or citations using non-standard citation templates, that are linked to by a {{enUici|WP:CITESHORT|shortened footnote]] or a {{enUici|WP:Parenthetical references|parenthetical reference]]. If you don't mind using a citation template, it is more standard to use {{Sfn}} or {{Harv}} with a template such as {{Citation}}, {{Cite book}}, {{Cite web}}, etc.

This template is not necessary if the citation uses a citation template (such as {{Cite book}}). Use the |ref= parameter of the citation template to create the anchor. This template is also not necessary if the article does not contain a {{enUici|WP:CITESHORT|shortened footnote]] or {{enUici|WP:Parenthetical references|parenthetical reference]] that creates a link (e.g. (Atwood 2003)). The anchor serves no purpose if nothing links to it.

Ùsaid - Usage

Copy-'n'-paste.

{{Wikicite | id = | reference = }}

or, alternatively (but not equivalentlyTeamplaid:Sndsee below)

{{Wikicite | ref = | reference = }}

The |id= or |ref= parameters are alternative unique identifiers used for the reference link on the page, compatible with some other reference templates. If both |id= and |ref= are provided, |id= is ignored. There are two differences between these:

• |id= automatically prefixes the link anchor with "Reference-", whereas |ref= does not
• |id= encloses the link anchor in double quotes, so these must not be provided by the editor; but if using |ref=, the specified content for this parameter must be enclosed in quotes unless it consists entirely of letters, figures, hyphens and periods. If it contains any other character - such as a blank or underscore - it must be quoted. (e.g., a ref anchor of Von Autor-2006 must be specified as |ref="Von Autor-2006")

Thus, these two forms

{{Wikicite | id = Anchor 1 | reference = Reference text }}
{{Wikicite | ref = "Reference-Anchor 1" | reference = Reference text }}

produce identical results.

The |reference= parameter is the actual reference text. It may be plain text, formatted text, or one of the citation templates.

Eisimpleirean - Examples

Recommended formats.

Markup	Renders as
According to Atwood, blah blah.<ref>[[#Atwood-2003|Atwood (2003)]], p. 29.</ref> == Notes == {{Reflist}} == References == * {{Wikicite | ref = Atwood-2003 | reference = Atwood, Margaret (2003). ''Oryx and Crake'', Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. {{ISBN|978-0-7710-0868-9}}. }}	According to Atwood, blah blah. Notes References Atwood, Margaret (2003). Oryx and Crake, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. Teamplaid:ISBN.
According to Atwood, blah blah.<ref>[[#Reference-Atwood-2003|Atwood (2003)]], p. 29.</ref> == Notes == {{Reflist}} == References == * {{Wikicite | id = Atwood-2003 | reference = Atwood, Margaret (2003). ''Oryx and Crake'', Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. {{ISBN|978-0-7710-0868-9}}. }}	According to Atwood, blah blah. Notes References Atwood, Margaret (2003). Oryx and Crake, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. Teamplaid:ISBN.
According to Atwood, blah blah.{{Sfn|Atwood|2003|p=29}} == Notes == {{Reflist}} == References == * {{Wikicite | ref = {{SfnRef|Atwood|2003}} | reference = Atwood, Margaret (2003). ''Oryx and Crake'', Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. {{ISBN|978-0-7710-0868-9}}. }}	According to Atwood, blah blah. Notes References Atwood, Margaret (2003). Oryx and Crake, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. Teamplaid:ISBN.

The parameter reference can be assigned templates as well as text. So if there is a template that is used for citations that does not support the usual {{Harvnb}} templates (see Help:CS1 and Help:CS2) the template can be passed into this template via the reference parameter. There is a template called {{Ws}} that "places a wikisource icon before text". For example:

{{Ws|{{enUici|s:Wellingon's Waterloo dispatch to Lord Bathurst, 19 June 1815|''The Waterloo dispatch''}}}} by the {{enUici|Duke of Wellington}} (19 June 1815)

would look like:

Teamplaid:Ws by the Duke of Wellington (19 June 1815)

Markup	Renders as
According to the ''{{enUici|Duke of Wellington}}'', blah blah.{{Sfn|Wellington|1815}} == Notes == {{Reflist}} == References == * {{Wikicite | ref = {{SfnRef|Wellington|1815}} | reference ={{Ws|{{enUici|s:Wellingon's Waterloo dispatch to Lord Bathurst, 19 June 1815|''The Waterloo dispatch''}}}} by the {{enUici|Duke of Wellington}} (19 June 1815) }}	According to the Duke of Wellington, blah blah. Notes References Teamplaid:Ws by the Duke of Wellington (19 June 1815)

However this is only one of several ways this particular text could be cited (see § Alternatives for more details):

• {{Ws}} can take a template as a parameter itself, and then the citation can be linked using the standard {{Harv}}-style footnotes:

• {{Ws| {{Citation |last=Wellington |first=Duke of |date=19 June 1815 |title=[[s:Wellingon's Waterloo dispatch to Lord Bathurst, 19 June 1815|''The Waterloo dispatch'']] }} }}
• Teamplaid:Ws

Features

• Compatible with any reference style: editor has 100% control of the format through a technology called editing wikitext

Technical features:

• Produces well-formed, accessible, semantically-correct HTML code
• Compatible with many other templates' in-text citation links (any id which starts with "Reference-")
• No conditionals
• No CSS hacks

Alternatives

Note that identical behavior can be achieved using the more standard {{Harvnb}} (or {{Sfn}}) and {{Citation}}

In article body: {{Harv|Atwood|2003}}

In references section: * {{Citation | last = Atwood | first = Margaret | year = 2003 | title = Oryx and Crake | location = Toronto | publisher = McClelland & Stewart | isbn = 978-0-7710-0868-9 }}

Faic cuideachd - Also see

• {{Citation}}
• {{Harvnb}}
• {{Sfn}}, an alternative method for creating shortened footnotes.
• {{Citeref}}, alternative method to create links to citations
• Wikipedia:Citation templates
• Wikipedia:Citing sources
• Wikipedia:Citing sources/Further considerations#Using Wikicite
• T-34#References, example of usage