Help:References

It's important to provide references to the books or other source material so that facts can be confirmed and proven trustwothy. This is particularly true when a strong statement is being made, or when a fact is not well known. This page will tell you everything you need to know about citing references and making notes.

It's okay if you are unable to provide references. See the #Editorial Notations section below for other ways you can help.

For more details, see Wikipedia's guidelines on References and Citation.

Also see ReferenCite For referencing help. You can get the citation text by going to pubmed, then click "cite" on the right.

References Section

Every page should have a Notes section at the very bottom. We want the references to appear there. This is done by including a <references /> tag first thing in the Notes section. If you don't put this code at the bottom it will still appear automatically. For more on article structure, see Help:Guidelines#Article_Structure.

Basic Referencing

One way of referencing is by using the ref tag.

<ref>reference details here</ref>

To reuse a reference, first give it a name

<ref name="refname">reference details here</ref>

Then you can reuse it later in the article as follows

<ref name="refname"/>

Pubmed Referencing

To easily add a link to pubmed you can use the PMID code as follows

<ref>{{#pmid:27349714}}</ref>

The bottom of the page will now produce:

Takeda et al.. Diagnostic Value of the Supine Napoleon Test for Subscapularis Tendon Lesions. Arthroscopy : the journal of arthroscopic & related surgery : official publication of the Arthroscopy Association of North America and the International Arthroscopy Association 2016. 32:2459-2465. PMID: 27349714. DOI.

To add a name to be able to reuse it, first write it as below. Note: you don't add the ref tags when doing this.

{{#pmid:27349714|Takeda2016}}

Then you reuse it later in the article just as before

<ref name="Takeda2016"/>

Footnotes

Sometimes you may wish to provide a textual footnote. It's not a reference to some source--just a small note of clarification that maybe doesn't belong in the body of the article. To make a footnote, use the basic reference template described earlier on this page.

Editorial Notations

Not sure about a particular reference? You can still help us out by identifying statements that may need some attention. Just insert the following templates, exactly as shown, after the statement.

Request Citation {{cite}}: {{cite}} acts as a placeholder for future citation. It let's others know that the preceding fact needs a reference.

Request Clarification {{clarify}}: {{clarify}} lets others know that the preceding statement is unclear and needs some work.

Disputed Warning {{disputed}}: {{disputed}} warns the reader that the preceding information may be incorrect or unverified. If you see something that doesn't sound correct (especially if it has no reference), use this.