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Latest revision as of 15:56, 15 October 2020
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Contents
When to use
This template indicates that the article uses many improperly formatted or non-formatted inline citations that require large-scale conversion to an accepted form of inline citation.
How to use
To add this template to an article, copy and paste:
{{Format footnotes|{{subst:DATE}}}}
- or
{{Format footnotes|date=June 2025}}
Both options result in the same output.
- This template will add the page to Category:Articles needing footnote reformatting and Category:Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify.
- A bot will add the date for you at a later time if you forgot.
Examples
A standard, correct way of formatting the following citations (with some acceptable variations as described at Wikipedia:Citing sources) would be:
Correct: Australia has a government.[1]
The following are examples of improperly formatted or non-formatted inline citations. This template is appropriate for articles that contain many such citations, therefore requiring large-scale conversion.
Embedded link
Incorrect: Australia has a government Australian Government.
or:
Incorrect: Australia has a government.[1]
Manual number
Incorrect: Australia has a governmentsee footnote 1
Parenthetical reference
Inline parenthetical referencing was a previously accepted citation system that is now deprecated per WP:PARREF. The recommendation is to convert inline parenthetical references to shortened footnotes (as depicted below) or regular footnotes (as depicted in the first example above) or footnotes with list-defined references.
Incorrect: Australia has a government (Australian Government Press Agency, 2009).
Correct: Australia has a government.[2]
- Sources
- Davidson, Hazel; Court, Dorothy (2011). Australian Government. Chapel Hill, Qld: Sugarbag on Damper. ISBN 9780975759387. OCLC 697121237.
See also
- Help:Footnotes
- Help:List-defined references
- Help:Shortened footnotes
- Wikipedia:Citing sources
- Wikipedia:Citing sources/Example edits for different methods
- Wikipedia:Citation templates
- Wikipedia:Template index/Cleanup
The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Format footnotes/doc. (edit | history) Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (edit | diff) and testcases (create) pages. Please add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template. |
- ↑ Australian Government Press Agency (25 November 2009). "Australian Government". Retrieved 25 November 2009.
- ↑ Davidson & Court 2011, p. 1.