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To make this If a citation works, a properly formatted reference will show up in the reference section at the bottom of the page. In order for the citation to work, the bibliographic resource - in this case <code><nowiki>Barseghyan (2015)</nowiki></code> - should must be previously added to the encyclopedia's compilation of bibliographical records. To do this, you must first enter the author or authors of the work in the author records. You can do this by visiting the [[:Category:Author|Author record]] page. Instructions for entering an author record are available on that page. An author record only needs to be entered once. It can then be used for every bibliographic record created for the works of that author. Next you must create a bibliographic record for the cited work. Do this by visiting the [[:Category:Bibliographic Record|the bibliographic recordsrecord]] of this encyclopediapage and following the instructions given there and below here. Once a A bibliographic record is only needs to be createdonce. After you have done so, it can then be cited from any page of the encyclopedia.
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This encyclopedia cites resources in a semantically meaningful way, i.e. each citation refers to a properly defined [[:Category:Bibliographic Record|bibliographic resource]]. Thus, to add a reference, please make use of <code><nowiki>[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)]]</nowiki></code> style annotations. Here is an example:
<blockquote>There is good reason to believe that a general TSC is not only theoretically possible, but also practically achievable. Indeed, no serious scientist would ever take initial failures in finding regularities as a reason for despair. Physicists, for instance, do not stop searching for general laws when their initial attempts fail to produce the desired results. Likewise, no level of complexity or apparent disunity of historical episodes can justify the particularist abolition of the idea of a general TSC.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)]]</blockquote>
== Articles in Collections ==
To add an article that was published in a collection, the collection itself should first be added to the system. There are two basic types of collections:
* collections of articles by ''different'' [[:Category:Author|authors]];
* collections of articles by ''the same'' author.
<code><nowiki>Lakatos (1978a)</nowiki></code>[[CiteRef::Lakatos (1978a)]]
{{note}} Articles from ''Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' (SEP) must be cited as ''collection articles''. Please refer to [[Bird (2011)]] for an example of how SEP articles are to be entered.
== Online Resources ==
== Page Numbers ==
Whenever the source you are citing is a book (rather than a book section or paper), you should '''always ''' give the relevant page numbers. Whenever you are directly quoting the source, you should '''always ''' give the page number, regardless of the nature of the source. To indicate a specific page of the citation, please add <code><nowiki>|p. <pagenumber></nowiki></code> to the <code><nowiki>[[CiteRef...]]</nowiki></code> annotation. For example, <code><nowiki>[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p. xii]]</nowiki></code> will produce this result:[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p. xii]].
For references to '''multiple pages''', please use <code><nowiki>|pp.</nowiki></code> instead of <code><nowiki>|p.</nowiki></code>, e.g. <code><nowiki>[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|pp. 1-3]]</nowiki></code>:[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|pp. 1-3]]
{{note}} There should be '''no space''' between <code><nowiki>|</nowiki></code> and <code><nowiki>p.</nowiki></code>, but there must be a space ''before'' the page number. Thus, <code><nowiki>[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)| p.xii]]</nowiki></code> is incorrect, while <code><nowiki>[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p. xii]]</nowiki></code> is correct.
== Multiple Authors or Editors ==If a resource has more than one authoror editor, please make sure that each author /editor is added to the system individually and all authors names are indicated when defining the resource. === Up to Three Authors or Editors ===If a resource has up to three authorsor editors, all of them will be openly listed. E.g.:
<code><nowiki>Nola and Sankey (Eds.) (2000)</nowiki></code>[[CiteRef::Nola and Sankey (Eds.) (2000)]]
<code><nowiki>Donovan, Laudan, and Laudan (Eds.) (1988)</nowiki></code>[[CiteRef::Donovan, Laudan, and Laudan (Eds.) (1988)]]
Note, that the names are separated with commas, as well as an <code><nowiki>and</nowiki></code>. === More than Three Authors or Editors ===If a resource has more than three authors/editors, please use <code><nowiki>et al.</nowiki></code> in the citation key of the resource. E.g.:
<code><nowiki>Olby et al. (Eds.) (1990)</nowiki></code>[[CiteRef::Olby et al. (Eds.) (1990)]]
However, ''all'' the authors/editors should still be listed as such when entering the bibliographic record of the resource.
== Multiple Resources ==
If two or more resources need to be cited at the same time, please insert as many <code><nowiki>[[CiteRef...]]</nowiki></code> references as necessary, ''without '' separating them by spaces or commas.[[CiteRef::Kuhn (1970a)]][[CiteRef::Bird (2011)]]
For instance, the following code <syntaxhighlight lang="html4strict"code><nowiki>Some text citing 2 resources.[[CiteRef::Kuhn (1970a)]][[CiteRef::Bird (2011)]] </syntaxhighlightnowiki></code> produces the following result: Some text citing 2 resources.[[CiteRef::Kuhn (1970a)]][[CiteRef::Bird (2011)]]
== References Section ==
== Common Errors ==
=== Missing Page Numbers ===
When a bibliographic resource is cited for a specific idea, page numbers are normally required. Simply citing the whole book isn't really helpful; the respective page numbers should be included wherever reasonable.
=== Wrong Year ===
It is tempting to cite the year of first edition of a resource even when a later edition is used. This is unacceptable, since different editions should have different bibliographic records and should not be confused. To avoid confusion, the bibliographic data of the edition that was actually used is to be entered.
