Help:Editing/Citations

IntactiWiki articles should always base on reliable sources from outside the IntactiWiki. Wherever possible, offer references and quote citations.

This subpage shows how to format citations in articles.

Simple citations

The easiest way to format a citation, is using the classical HTML <blockquote> tags, like shown in the following example:

<blockquote>This is a short quote of a wonderful sentence read somewhere in some book.</blockquote>

This is a short quote of a wonderful sentence read somewhere in some book.

Note: You see that the text has been indented and marked as a quotation with a graphical element. This is done by a CSS command outside this article and globally available in the whole IntactiWiki.

Citations using templates

As the simple citation doesn't show any information about who said it when and where, we recommend using the Template:Citation instead.

Template (simple)

Here is a simple example for how to use it:

{{Citation |text=This is a short quote of a wonderful sentence read somewhere in some book. |author=John Doe}}

“	This is a short quote of a wonderful sentence read somewhere in some book. – John Doe

Note: You see that the quoted text is nicely bracketed with large quotation marks and the author's name is shown below in capitals. This formatting is done in the template and identical for all usages of this template in all articles. (Therefore we always recommend using templates.)

Template (advanced)

A more complex example:

{{Citation
 |title=What a quotation!
 |text=This is a short quote of a wonderful sentence read somewhere in some book.
 |author=John Doe
 |source=Reader's Digest vol. 42
 |ref=<ref>[http://www.somedomain.com Some website]</ref>
}}

“	What a quotation! This is a short quote of a wonderful sentence read somewhere in some book. – John Doe (Reader's Digest vol. 42)

Template (complex)

Here is a most complex example which also shows that templates can be used in templates:

{{Citation
 |title=What a quotation!
 |text=Dies ist ein kurzes Zitat eines wundervollen Satzes, irgendwo in einem Buch gelesen.

You can of course use Wiki ''formatting'' elements in the quotation. '''Empty lines''' will be formatted as the beginning of a new paragraph.
 |author=John Doe
 |source=Reader's Digest vol. 42
 |lang=German
 |before=>>
 |after=<<
 |transcription=[Use this when the original quote is in a non-latin language like Hebrew, Chinese, etc.]
 |translation=This is a short quote of a wonderful sentence read somewhere in some book.
 |comment=Did you know that you can even comment a citation?
 |ref=<ref>{{REFbook
  |last=Doe
  |first=John
  |year=1948
  |title=The Story of My Life
  |url=http://www.somedomain.com
  |work=Reader's Digest
  |editor=Jim Long
  |edition=1
  |volume=42
  |chapter=8
  |pages=42-43
  |location=London
  |publisher=Penguin Books
  |isbn=1234567890123
  |quote=Dies ist ein kurzes Zitat eines wundervollen Satzes, irgendwo in einem Buch gelesen.
  |accessdate=2019-09-25
  |note=This is just an example!
 }}</ref>
}}

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What a quotation! >>Dies ist ein kurzes Zitat eines wundervollen Satzes, irgendwo in einem Buch gelesen. You can of course use Wiki formatting elements in the quotation. Empty lines will be formatted as the beginning of a new paragraph.<< Transcription: "[Use this when the original quote is in a non-latin language like Hebrew, Chinese, etc.]" Translation: "This is a short quote of a wonderful sentence read somewhere in some book." – John Doe (Reader's Digest vol. 42) COMMENT: Did you know that you can even comment a citation?