Help:Referencing

Referencing

<ref></ref> tags are what makes the text you type turn into the cool [1] icon. The text you're typing between those tags often uses a template, such as Template:Cite jake to autocomplete some text for you.

Reference anything EXCEPT scientific articles with ProveIt

Use ProveIt in the bottom right of any page you visit. It should look like this: [P].

From there, you can select what you are referencing and fill in the fields accordingly.

This video demonstrates how to do this, although this is done with a scientific article. Don't use ProveIt for scientific articles, just see the next section:

You can use <ref></ref> tags to include footnotes in articles as well, it doesn't have to be a link to an article.

Referencing Jake and the blog

Do it like this:

<ref>{{cite jake|https://endmyopia.org/why-not-reduce-a-little-cyl-with-each-sph/}}</ref>

That will produce

You can alternatively just use ProveIt, with the method above.

Referencing scientific articles

Use the Biomedical citation maker, it's amazing. Insert the PMID or DOI into the box on the left (should be visible for most if not all clinical studies), and use the first box that comes up (the one that says wiki markup for Wikipedia). Just copy and paste the really long contents of that box into where you want your reference.

You will feel like a scholar in no time using this