Help:Adding citations

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

For example, to create a footnote reference to this NYT article, you would use the following text.

<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>

This might format something like this in your article.

Aging sewer systems need to be repaired or replaced to prevent sewage contamination of freshwater resources.

and the end of the article, you would find

Additional calls to the same material can use the shortened reference name in a modified "call."

<ref name="Duhigg" />

Note that in subsequent calls to a previously named reference, you must include the closing backslash ("/"), as shown above.

for example:

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"/>

would format as:

Aging sewer systems need to be repaired or replaced to prevent sewage contamination of freshwater resources. Some cities will be looking at bills upwards from US$36 billion to repair aging systems.

Caveat

If you prepare your document in a word processing program prior to including it in AquaPedia, sometimes the software will include 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."