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This page explains how to create the '''Footnotes''' section for Wikipedia articles. In this context, the word "Footnotes" refers to the Wikipedia-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 [[Wikipedia:Citing sources|Citing sources]].

 

Footnotes are created using the <nowiki>{{cite.php}}</nowiki> software extension. This extension adds the HTML-like elements {{tag|ref}}, {{tag|references|s}} and {{tag|references}}. The elements are also used in a number of templates; for example, it is becoming more common to use {{tl|reflist}} rather than {{tag|references|s}} as it can style the reference list.

 

==Overview==