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== Punctuation and footnotes == | |||
:''See also: [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Citing sources|Wikipedia:Citing sources]]'' | |||
'''Ref tags''' ({{tag|ref}}) are used to create ''[[Help:Footnotes|footnotes]]'' (sometimes called ''endnotes'' or ''notes''). The ref tags should immediately follow the text to which the footnote applies, with no intervening space (except possibly a [[hair space]] | '''Ref tags''' ({{tag|ref}}) are used to create ''[[Wikipedia:Help:Footnotes|footnotes]]'' (sometimes called ''endnotes'' or ''notes''). The ref tags should immediately follow the text to which the footnote applies, with no intervening space (except possibly a [[Wikipedia:Hair space|hair space]]. Any punctuation (see exceptions below) must precede the ref tags. Adjacent ref tags should have no space between them. Ref tags are used for [[Wikipedia:Help:Footnotes#Explanatory notes|explanatory notes]], but are more often used for [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Citing sources#Inline citations|citation footnotes]]. | ||
When ref tags are used, a [[Help:Footnotes#Creating the footnote list|footnote list]] must be added, and is usually placed in the [[ | When ref tags are used, a [[Wikipedia:Help:Footnotes#Creating the footnote list|footnote list]] must be added, and is usually placed in the [[UniWiki:Manual of Style/Layout#Notes and references|Notes and References]] section near the end of the article in the [[UniWiki:Manual of Style/Layout#Standard appendices and footers|standard appendices and footers]]. | ||
Exceptions: ref tags are placed {{em|before}} dashes, not after; and where a footnote applies only to material within parentheses, the ref tags belong just before the closing parenthesis. | Exceptions: ref tags are placed {{em|before}} dashes, not after; and where a footnote applies only to material within parentheses, the ref tags belong just before the closing parenthesis. | ||
=== Punctuation after formulae === | === Punctuation after formulae === | ||