Either the multifeatured {{Reflist}} template or the simple
If multiple citations for the same source are included in the article, and you are using tags, you can name the footnote to link to the same note repeatedly.
This template creates superscript numbers in a text which, when clicked on, direct the reader to the citation at the bottom of the page.
Here's a working example: to cite the book The Navy, insert a reference tab—{{ref| }}—at the end of this sentence and place the word "Navy1" after the vertical line so that it looks like this:{{ref|Navy1}}.
[1] Notice how a small number now appears at the end of the previous sentence; this contains the information that will be cited in the reference section.
Although the default formatting matches standard ... tags, it also allows you to use any letter, number, or symbol you choose.
As a result, this system is popular with people who want to manually number or format the superscripted footnote markers for citations and/or explanatory notes.
[2]" This type of hyperlinking, when not inside a ref..tag pair, has long since been deprecated (see Citing sources § Avoid embedded links).
For example, Wikisource contains the text of a letter from Oliver Cromwell to the Speaker of the English Parliament This might appear in a sentence like this: This is not adequate as an inline citation because it is not obvious to the reader that there is any form of inline citation to support the sentence.
Some lists, such as Line of succession to the British throne, use a similar system with a code letter or word to indicate which source the information is taken from.
Both of these systems are valid inline citation formats—they both permit the reader to identify which source supports which material in the article—but they are uncommon on Wikipedia.
If you don't know how to fix it yourself, then you can tag the article with {{Inline parenthetical referencing|date=February 2025}} to help more experienced editors find it.
Alice Jones said in her 2008 book, The Sun Is Really Big, ...This is technically a valid inline citation for Wikipedia's purposes—it permits the reader to identify which source supports the material, right there in the line of text—but it is normally used in addition to some other system of inline citation for quotations, close paraphrasing, and anything contentious or distinctive, where the editor wants to draw attention to the source's name in the article.
This is most commonly used for very widely recognized classical sources, such as Shakespeare's plays, the Bible, or ancient Greek and Roman philosophers.
Our sourcing policies do not require an inline citation for any other type of material, although it is typical for editors to voluntarily exceed these minimum standards.
Technically, if an article contains none of these four types of material, then it is not required by any policy to name any sources at all, either as inline citations or as general references.
Wikipedia requires inline citations based on the content, not on the grammar and composition elements.
For example, one inline citation is sufficient for this paragraph:Education researcher Mary Jones says that there are three kinds of students.
Editors should exercise caution when adding to or rearranging material to ensure that text-source relationships are maintained.
This section is where the bibliographic citations to the reliable sources that were used to build the article content are presented.
For more information and the relevant style guide on reference sections, see Wikipedia:Citing sources.
To create the underlined arrows like the one that took you here place a {{note}} template followed by the correct word description for the given information.