Help:Shortened footnotes
Shortened footnotes are a mix of standard footnotes and parenthetical referencing (Harvard). They use in-text citations that link to a shortened reference in a list and a separate full reference list. The shortened reference may link to the full reference.
Shortened footnotes are used for more reasons: they let the editor to cite many different pages of the same source without having to copy the entire citation; they avoid the inevitable clutter when citations are inserted into the source text.
Overview
In this short example, note that an in-text cite such as [1] links to the shortened citation in the Notes list, which in turn links to the long citation in the References list:
The brontosaurus is thin at one end.{{sfn|Elk|1972|p=5}} Then it becomes much thicker in the middle.{{sfn|Elk|1972|p=6}}
The Norwegian Blue Parrot will not move if its feet are nailed to the perch.{{sfn|Praline|1969|p=12}} Its metabolic processes are a matter of interest only to historians.{{sfn|Praline|1969|p=16}}
==Notes==
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==References==
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*{{cite book |last=Elk |first=Anne |title=[[Anne Elk's Theory on Brontosauruses]] |date=November 16, 1972 |ref=harv}}
*{{cite book |last=Praline |first=Eric |title=[[Dead Parrot sketch]] |date=December 7, 1969 |ref=harv}}
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The brontosaurus is thin at one end.[1] Then it becomes much thicker in the middle.[2] The Norwegian Blue Parrot will not move if its feet are nailed to the perch.[3] Its metabolic processes are a matter of interest only to historians.[4]
Notes
- ↑ Elk 1972, p. 5.
- ↑ Elk 1972, p. 6.
- ↑ Praline 1969, p. 12.
- ↑ Praline 1969, p. 16.
References
- Elk, Anne. Anne Elk's Theory on Brontosauruses (November 16, 1972).
- Praline, Eric. Dead Parrot sketch (December 7, 1969).
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