Help talk:Overview of referencing styles

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Merge

I wonder if this should be merged with WP:Verification methods and Wikipedia:Citing sources/Example edits for different methods. ---- CharlesGillingham (talk) 19:58, 22 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I created this to help editors identify what style an article uses. Merging itinto something else looses that point, unless it is kept as a section. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 10:46, 23 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Dated?

I like the markup for the examples- it is really clear. I am currently looking (with despair) at all the referencing help pages, an FA reviews ahead of a edit-a-thon I am doing for a learned society.

There needs to be two extra sections to be current, and maybe a third if anyone ever uses Visual Editor.

There needs to be a basic section

   
<ref> Shove as much detail as you can in freetext and come back later </ref>

This is what a lot of newbies will see when they start trying to improve a stub.

{{harvnb|Smith|1882|p=470}}- without the use of {{sfn}} s This style appears on FAs while {{sfn}} are still rare.
I don't see much point in comparing the merits of Footnote3 when it is now historic- but thanks for explaining it to me. More to the point would be a comparison between cite.php / sfn/ Harvnb. All occur in some number in FAs
There must be a better name for cite.php referencing. Similarly the habit of calling harvnbs parenthesical-style should be discussed even it it is to explain to me how to spell and pronounce the word.
sfns must explain efns

Any comments- I like to know before I start interfering. Nice mark-up I am taking it as a souvenir. -- Clem Rutter (talk) 15:28, 2 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@ClemRutter: The {{harvnb}} template is not generally used for parenthetical referencing because it lacks parentheses, that's why it has "nb" - i.e. "no brackets"; it's normally placed inside <ref>...</ref> tags. Parenthetical referencing is achieved using {{harv}}, see for example Actuary. --Redrose64 (talk) 17:52, 2 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

academic styles

I thought that this article would indicate whether Wikipedia supports Modern Language Association Style Guide or APA style in its citation style. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rootsmusic (talk • contribs) 19:47, 13 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Rootsmusic: As noted at WP:CITESTYLE, Wikipedia does not have a single house style, though citations within any given article should follow a consistent style. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:17, 13 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]