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See the video tutorial regarding this help section: Adding References

This page provides help with citing sources. Some information is taken from Wikipedia's information on citing sources, which gives the best direction on how to do it. If you already have knowledge of the <ref> tag, then there is no need to read this page. The knowledge you already have applies to Zelda Wiki.

References appear as footnotes (or numbers) at the end of a piece of text as such: ^[1][2] and so on. At the bottom of the page, a reference list can be found that shows the full text of these references. Clicking on one of the numbers will take you to the appropriate reference. Examples can be seen on such pages as Maggie or Pedestal of Time.

Adding a Reference

To insert a reference, use the following code:

<ref>Actual text of reference</ref>

To use a template or link in a reference, insert it between the ref tags. For example:

<ref>{{Cite| Quote | Character | Game}}</ref>

Insert the reference after the text that calls for it, after any punctuation. For instance:

Link is Hylian and was born in Hyrule.^[1]

Link is Hylian^[1] and was born in Hyrule.

Link is Hylian,^[1] as is Zelda.^[2]

Link is Hylian^[1], as is Zelda^[2].

{{Ref}}

Once you've finished citing sources, add the following at the end of the page:

{{Ref}} - For a reference section.

This creates a section called "References" at the bottom of the page, where all the cited sources in the article will appear. Clicking a footnote will take you to that section of the article.

Different Types of References

If you are quoting a source, be sure that the quote is precise and only contains the text that is needed. For example, don't quote an entire speech in the reference if only one sentence is necessary.

Above the edit box you will find buttons for each citation template. Clicking one automatically inserts the template in the edit box.

Source	Template to use	Button	Additional information (See the template page for specific instructions on usage)
In-game Text	{{Cite}}		Used to reference character quotes from the games.
Web Pages	{{Cite Web}}		Used to cite the web page where a piece of information was taken from. This is only necessary when information can be found only on that web page, such as information about certain web sites, or sourcing reviews of games.
Real People	{{Cite Person}}		Used to reference quotes made by a specific (real-life) person. This is often used for developer quotes.
Manuals	{{Cite Manual}}		Used to reference a section of text from a game manual.
Books	{{Cite Book}}		Used to reference a section of text from a book that is not a game manual.
Guides	{{Cite Guide}}		Used to reference a section of text from a guide.
Television Episodes	{{Cite Episode}}		Used to reference quotes from an episode of a television show. This is often often used for The Legend of Zelda TV series and Captain N: The Game Master.

Examples

The following code:

will produce:

Multiple uses of the same footnote

To give a footnote a unique identifier, use <ref name="name">. This allows you to refer to the same footnote without duplicating it, using a terminated empty ref tag that looks like this: <ref name="name"/>.

In the following example, the same source is cited three times.

The text above gives the following result in the article:

Citing Foreign Languages

Given The Legend of Zelda series' origins, citing Japanese sources may be required on occasion. When citing Japanese or any other language, use the same templates as for English, but have a translation of the text available on mouse-over using Template:Exp. That is, when adding the quote, enter the following:

{{Exp|English translation of quote|Original foreign quote}}

An example can be seen below:

This produces: