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This page explains how to create the '''Footnotes''' section for imamatpedia articles. In this context, the word "Footnotes" refers to the imamatpedia-specific manner of documenting an article's sources and providing tangential information, and should not be confused with the general concept of [[Note (typography)|footnotes]]. This how-to does not cover the formatting of citations within the Footnotes section, which is reviewed in [[imamatpedia:Citing sources|Citing sources]].

* [[imamatpedia:Citing sources|references (bibliographic citations) to reliable sources]],

Only certain types of material on the English imamatpedia are required to have an inline citation. There is [[imamatpedia:Inline citation#Citation density|no requirement to provide a citation for every sentence]], because multiple sentences may be supported by the same footnote. For advice on which material should be cited, see the guidelines on [[WP:MINREF|When you must use inline citations]], the [[imamatpedia:Good article criteria|Good article criteria]] and [[imamatpedia:when to cite|When to cite]]. For advice on how to organize and format bibliographic citations, see the guideline on [[imamatpedia:Citing sources|Citing sources]] and examples of [[imamatpedia:Citation templates#Examples|Citation templates]].

{{See also|imamatpedia:Citing sources#Citing multiple pages of the same source}}

|<nowiki>This is page content.<ref name="manchester2002">''LibreOffice for Starters'', First Edition, Flexible Minds, Manchester, 2002, p. 18</ref> This is more content.<ref name="manchester2002" />

|This is page content.<ref name="manchester2002">''LibreOffice for Starters'', First Edition, Flexible Minds, Manchester, 2002, p. 18</ref> This is more content.<ref name="manchester2002" />

|<nowiki>This is starter content.<ref name="manchester2002">''LibreOffice for Starters'', First Edition, Flexible Minds, Manchester, 2002, p. 18</ref> This is expert content.<ref name="lexington2004">''OpenOffice for Experts'', Lexington, 2004, p. 18</ref> And more starter content.<ref name="manchester2002" /> And more expert content.<ref name="lexington2004" />

|This is starter content.<ref name="manchester2002">''LibreOffice for Starters'', First Edition, Flexible Minds, Manchester, 2002, p. 18</ref> This is expert content.<ref name="lexington2004">''OpenOffice for Experts'', Lexington, 2004, p. 18</ref> And more starter content.<ref name="manchester2002" /> And more expert content.<ref name="lexington2004" />

Care should be taken when deleting references to avoid creating a cite error. See [[imamatpedia:Avoiding common mistakes#Deleting...|Avoiding common mistakes]].

{{See also|imamatpedia:Citing sources#Variation in citation methods|imamatpedia:Manual of Style/Layout#Notes and references}}

There are several predefined groups that can have a reference list styled so that the label (a superscripted character within square brackets, e.g., {{dummy ref|1}}) of an [[Help:Explanatory notes|explanatory note]] or citation (aka footnote, reference) matches and links to the note marker label located in the main text and the label in front of the note's text in the appropriate group's list. There can be [[imamatpedia:Citing sources#Separating citations from explanatory footnotes|more than one of these groups' lists]] in the Notes, References and other similarly purposed sections.

A page with {{tag|ref|o}} tags but no reference list markup used to display an error, except on talk and user pages. In recent versions of imamatpedia, the error no longer appears; instead an automatically generated reference list (AGRL) is displayed at the bottom of the page.

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* [[imamatpedia:Citing sources/Further considerations]]—a how-to article with some additional considerations for citing sources

* [[imamatpedia:Help desk]]—to ask questions about using footnotes in articles if you were not able to find the information you need on this help page.

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