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==Citing Literature References== | ==Footnotes and Citing Literature References== | ||
'''Examples:''' To provide examples, this paragraph contains several citations to literature references. David and Jane Richardson introduced Kinemages in 1992 <ref>Richardson DC, Richardson JS. The kinemage: a tool for scientific communication. | '''Examples:''' To provide examples, this paragraph contains several citations to literature references. David and Jane Richardson introduced Kinemages in 1992 <ref>Richardson DC, Richardson JS. The kinemage: a tool for scientific communication. | ||
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If you want to cite the '''same publication again later''' in your text, you need to give a name to the first instance, for example <ref name="rasmol">...</ref>. Then, you can re-cite the same reference with this: <ref name="rasmol"/>. (Note the trailing slash.) Here is how this will actually appear: Although Sayle released RasMol in 1993, his publication did not appear until 1995<ref name="rasmol"/>. Although Herráez wrote the cited paper on Jmol<ref name="jmol"/>, he appropriately credits Miguel Howard and Robert Hanson for most of Jmol's development for macromolecular displays. | If you want to cite the '''same publication again later''' in your text, you need to give a name to the first instance, for example <ref name="rasmol">...</ref>. Then, you can re-cite the same reference with this: <ref name="rasmol"/>. (Note the trailing slash.) Here is how this will actually appear: Although Sayle released RasMol in 1993, his publication did not appear until 1995<ref name="rasmol"/>. Although Herráez wrote the cited paper on Jmol<ref name="jmol"/>, he appropriately credits Miguel Howard and Robert Hanson for most of Jmol's development for macromolecular displays. | ||
The only thing you need to type into the wikitext at the bottom of your page, in order to display the references there, are these two lines: | '''Footnotes:''' Literature references cited with the above method will appear as footnotes. Footnotes are also a good place to put any technical or digressive notes to avoid having them intrude in the main text. You can put any footnote text between <ref> and </ref> tags. | ||
The only thing you need to type into the wikitext at the bottom of your page, in order to display the footnotes and references there, are these two lines: | |||
<nowiki>==References==</nowiki> | <nowiki>==References==</nowiki> | ||
