Help:Reference display customization

You can customize the appearance of inline cites and the reference list by adding any of these rules to your CSS. After editing, bypass your cache.

Customizing the reference list

Set font size

Special:Preferences → Gadgets → Disable smaller font sizes of elements such as Infoboxes, Navboxes and References lists.

or

/* Set the font size for {{reflist}} */
.references-small {
    font-size: 90%;
}

Change 90% to the desired size.

/* Supress display of the reference list */
.references {
    display: none;
}

/* Highlight clicked reference in blue to help navigation */
ol.references > li:target,
sup.reference:target,
span.citation:target { 
    background-color: #DEF;
}

See web colors.

Columns

/* Disable columns for {{reflist}} and {{refbegin}} */
.references-column-count, .references-column-width {
    column-count: 1 !important;
    column-width: auto !important;
    -moz-column-count: 1 !important;
    -moz-column-width: auto !important;
    -webkit-column-count: 1 !important;
    -webkit-column-width: auto !important;
}

To set a fixed number of columns, change 1 to the desired number.

/* Add dividers (rules) between columns */
.references-column-count, .references-column-width {
    column-rule: 1px solid #aaa;
    -moz-column-rule: 1px solid #aaa;
    -webkit-column-rule: 1px solid #aaa;
}

You can alter the appearance of the dividers by changing the values.

Customizing the in-text citations

/* keep reference superscript and subscript text from breaking the line-spacing */
#content sup.reference {
    vertical-align: baseline;
    _vertical-align: bottom;
    position: relative;
    bottom: 0.33em;
}

#content sub.reference {
    vertical-align: baseline;
    _vertical-align: bottom;
    position: relative;
    bottom: -0.25em;
}

/* Hide the brackets for the inline cite */
sup.reference a span {
    display: none;
}

/* Add a non-breaking space before the in-text citation */
sup.reference:before {
    content: ' '; text-decoration: none;
}

/* Larger, bolder in-text citations */
p sup.reference a {
    font-weight: bold;
    font-size: 140% !important;
    color: #55C !important;
    background: #FFF !important;
}
hover sup.reference a {
    background: #FFFF00 !important;
    color: #1010FF !important;
}
hover sup.reference a:visited {
    color: #5A3696 !important;
}
hover sup.reference a:active {
    color: #FAA700 !important;
    background: #0808F8 !important;
}

/* inconspicuous in-text citations */
sup.reference {
    white-space: nowrap;
}
sup.reference a {
    font-size: 0.85em;
    font-weight: lighter
}
sup.reference:after {
    content: ' '; /* non-break space after cites */
    text-decoration: none;
}
sup.reference a span {
    display: none; /* hide the brackets */
}
p sup.reference a,
tr sup.reference a,
caption sup.reference a,
ol sup.reference a,
ul sup.reference a,
dl sup.reference a {
    color: black;
}
p:hover sup.reference a,
tr:hover sup.reference a,
caption:hover sup.reference a,
ol:hover sup.reference a,
ul:hover sup.reference a,
dl:hover sup.reference a {
    color: rgb(0, 43, 184);
    text-decoration: underline;
}
p:hover sup.reference a:visited,
tr:hover sup.reference a:visited,
caption:hover sup.reference a:visited,
ol:hover sup.reference a:visited,
ul:hover sup.reference a:visited,
dl:hover sup.reference a:visited {
    color: #5A3696;
}
p:hover sup.reference a:hover,
tr:hover sup.reference a:hover,
caption:hover sup.reference a:hover,
ol:hover sup.reference a:hover,
ul:hover sup.reference a:hover,
dl:hover sup.reference a:hover {
    color: #002BB8;
}
p:hover sup.reference a:active,
tr:hover sup.reference a:active,
caption:hover sup.reference a:active
ol:hover sup.reference a:active,
ul:hover sup.reference a:active,
dl:hover sup.reference a:active {
    color: #FAA700;
}