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Having edited[1] quite a few documents on Wikipedia, I have to put in a bid for a standardised way on including references within a wiki. This ought to be something simple ??How not to create a standard by M.S.Wolf??.

(1) How not to create a standard by M.S.Wolf.

-- Isonomia 2007, Apr, 28

Wikipedia uses a system that is far from fathomable. At the point of citation in the main text, enter the reference or footnote like this:

    <ref>Excel For Dummies, First Edition, Hungry Minds, Inc., 1980.</ref> 

To cite the same reference or footnote several times, identify it using the name parameter of the <ref> tag:

    <ref name="Perry">Perry's Handbook, Sixth Edition, McGraw-Hill Co., 1984.</ref> 

Then, at all the other citation points just enter:

    <ref name="Perry"/> 

At the point where you want the text of the footnotes or references to appear (usually at the end of the article in a "Notes" or "References" section), insert the tag:

    <references/>  

Which produces a list:

  1. ^ Wiki For Dummies, First Edition, Hungry Minds, Inc., 1980.
  2. ^ Excel For Dummies, First Edition, Hungry Minds, Inc., 1980.

Personally, I would refer something like

This is second [2] reference the first being on the top line to show the link, this is the third[3] reference

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  • [#1] This first reference info, Hungry Minds, Inc., 1980.]
  • [#2] The second reference info, Hound dog deniers Inc., 1580.]
  • [#3] The third reference info,1180.]

Which is exactly what this wiki http://www.jspwiki.org/wiki/TextFormattingRules#ref-TextFormattingRules-1 does with the following reproduced text :-

This is second [2] reference the first being on the top line to show the link, this is the third[3] reference 

A lot of text .... 

* [#1] This first reference info, Hungry Minds, Inc., 1980.] 
* [#2] The second reference info, Hound dog deniers Inc., 1580.] 
* [#3] The third reference info,1180.] 

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