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Adding special formatting code within your text, where an inline citation or footnote would occur, will automatically log the reference as a numbered footnote and include the citation at the end of the page in a pre-formatted "reference" section
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Please add citations as "(author, date)" within text and list references at the end of your case.
For example, to create a footnote reference to [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/15/us/15water.html?_r=1 this NYT article], you would use the following text.
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<pre>
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<ref name="Duhigg">Duhigg, Charles, "TOXIC WATERS; Repair Costs Daunting as Water Lines
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Crumble." The New York Times, 15 March 2010, page 1. available online:
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/15/us/15water.html</ref>
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</pre>
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This might format something like this in your article.
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<blockquote>
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Aging sewer systems need to be repaired or replaced to prevent sewage contamination of freshwater resources.<ref name="Duhigg">Duhigg, Charles, "TOXIC WATERS; Repair Costs Daunting as Water Lines Crumble." The New York Times, 15 March 2010, page 1. available online: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/15/us/15water.html</ref>
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</blockquote>
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and the end of the article, you would find
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<blockquote>
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<references />
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</blockquote>
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Additional calls to the same material can use the shortened reference name in a modified "call."
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<pre>
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<ref name="Duhigg" />
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</pre>
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Note that in subsequent calls to a previously named reference, you must include the closing backslash ("/"), as shown above.
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for example:
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<pre>
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Aging sewer systems need to be repaired or replaced to prevent sewage contamination
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of freshwater resources.<ref name="Duhigg">Duhigg, Charles, "TOXIC WATERS; Repair
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Costs Daunting as Water Lines Crumble." The New York Times, 15 March 2010, page 1.
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available online: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/15/us/15water.html</ref> Some
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cities will be looking at bills upwards from US$36 billion to repair aging systems. <ref
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name="Duhigg"/>
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</pre>
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would format as:
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<blockquote>
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Aging sewer systems need to be repaired or replaced to prevent sewage contamination of freshwater resources.<ref name="Duhigg">Duhigg, Charles, "TOXIC WATERS; Repair Costs Daunting as Water Lines Crumble." The New York Times, 15 March 2010, page 1. available online: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/15/us/15water.html</ref> Some cities will be looking at bills upwards from US$36 billion to repair aging systems. <ref name="Duhigg"/>
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<references />
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</blockquote>
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==Caveat==
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If you prepare your document in a word processing program prior to including it in AquaPedia, sometimes the software will include [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark_glyphs curved "smart quotes," rather than the standard "straight quotes."] inserted by the quotes key on your keyboard in a web based form or basic text editor.  You will need to double check that all quotes are "straight quotes."
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Latest revision as of 16:31, 26 March 2017


Please add citations as "(author, date)" within text and list references at the end of your case.