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	Shifti has the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite/Cite.php Cite.php] extension installed to provide automatic formatting and linking of footnotes.		Shifti has the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite/Cite.php Cite.php] extension installed to provide automatic formatting and linking of footnotes. {{help}}

	==Basic usage==		==Basic usage==

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The basics of cite.php

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Shifti has the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite/Cite.php Cite.php] extension installed to provide automatic formatting and linking of footnotes.

==Basic usage==

To create a footnote at a particular point in a page, insert the contents of the footnote between the tags <nowiki><ref> and </ref></nowiki>. Then, in the place where you want all the footnotes to appear (generally down at the bottom of the page) insert the tag <nowiki><references /></nowiki>.

So for example, the following text would generate a footnote:

{| border="1"
|-
! Code
! Displayed text
|-
|<nowiki>Once upon a time there was a giant<ref>Well, relatively large at an rate</ref> artichoke morph.</nowiki>
|Once upon a time there was a giant<ref>Well, relatively large at an rate</ref> artichoke morph.
|}

The footnote link is numbered automatically, and linked to an anchor down where the footnote is displayed. See the bottom of the page for this footnote, where a <nowiki><references/></nowiki> tag has been placed. You can use multiple <nowiki><references/></nowiki> tags but their contents will be the same.

==Using the same footnote multiple times==

If for some reason you want to reuse the same footnote in multiple different places without having to place many identical copies of the text, one can give ref tags a "name" parameter to cause them to be automatically grouped. Once you've created a named reference you can reuse that reference without having to type in the contents again by providing an empty ref tag.

So, for example:

{| border="1"
|-
!Code
!Displayed text
|-
|<nowiki>The artichoke was big.<ref name="size note">Still just relatively speaking.</ref> Really big.<ref name="size note"/> So mindbogglingly big,<ref name="size note"/> in fact that its bigness was indescribable.<ref name="size note 2">Aside from the previous description, of course.</ref></nowiki>
|The artichoke was big.<ref name="size note">Still just relatively speaking.</ref> Really big.<ref name="size note"/> So mindbogglingly big,<ref name="size note"/> in fact that its bigness was indescribable.<ref name="size note 2">Aside from the previous description, of course.</ref>
|}

The name attribute can be any arbitrary string, excepting that a simple integer number cannot be used (integer numbers are what unnamed references use).

==Footnotes==

<references/>

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