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To 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:
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 properly defined using <code><nowiki>{{#scite}}</nowiki></code> templateadded 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|bibliographic record]] page and following the instructions given there and below here. A bibliographic record only needs to be created once. After you have done so, it can then be cited from any page of the encyclopedia.
<syntaxhighlight lang="html4strict">{{#scite:Barseghyan (2015) |type=bookArticles in Collections == |author=BarseghyanTo add an article that was published in a collection, Hakobthe collection itself should first be added to the system. There are two basic types of collections: |title=The Laws * collections of Scientific Change articles by ''different'' [[:Category:Author|year=2015authors]]; |publisher=Springer |isbn=9783319175959}}</syntaxhighlight>* collections of articles by ''the same'' author.
Such <code><nowiki>{{#scite}}</nowiki></code> entries must be created for all cited resources. Although, If an article is in principle, these bibliographic entries can be inserted anywhere on any page a collection of the wikiarticles by ''different'' authors, the best practice is to add all collection's citation key should include <code><nowiki>{{#scite}}(Ed.)</nowiki></code> entries on the special [[Bibliography]] page of this encyclopedia. This helps ensure that:* '''no resource is defined twice''' in the encyclopedia;* authors can easily '''determine whether a certain resource if it has been already defined''';* '''individual articles are nice and clean''' and are not crammed with bibliographic data.To that endone editor, it is instrumental that all or <code><nowiki>{{#scite}}(Eds.)</nowiki></code> entries be defined on the [[Bibliography]] page in the alphabetical orderif it has more than one editor. E.g.:
Different types of resources require slightly different templates<code><nowiki>Zalta (Ed. At this moment the following templates are in use) (2016)</nowiki></code>[[CiteRef:* For books* For journal articles* For articles in collections :Zalta (Ed.) (2016)]]
== Books ==All books must use However, if a collection of papers is by the above templatesame author, we don't add <code><nowiki>(Ed.)</nowiki></code> and register that collection as a ''book'', thus:
== Journal Articles ==Here is a <code><nowiki>{{#scite}}Lakatos (1978a)</nowiki></code> template for journal articles:[[CiteRef::Laudan Lakatos (19891978a)]]
<syntaxhighlight lang="html4strict">{{#scite:Laudan note}} Articles from ''Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' (1989SEP) |type=journal |author=Laudan, Larry |title=If It Ainmust be cited as 't Broke Don't Fix It |journal=The British Journal collection articles''. Please refer to [[Bird (2011)]] for the Philosophy an example of Science |volume=40 |year=1989 |pages=369-375}}</syntaxhighlight>how SEP articles are to be entered.
If an article is == Publication Year ==A resource can have more than one editions. When creating a bibliographic record for a publication, the year of actual publication should be used, rather than the year of first publication. For example, Descartes' ''Treatise on Man'' was originally published in a collection 1664, but if you are using the translation of articles the ''Treatise'' published by different authorsPrometheus Books in 2003, then the editor(s) of the citation key should be <code><nowiki>|collectionyear=Descartes (2003)</nowiki></code>, not <code><nowiki>|collectiontitle=</nowiki></code> and <code><nowiki>|collectioneditor=Descartes (1664)</nowiki></code> parameters should also be specified. Here is If needed, you can indicate the date of original publication in the format:[[CiteRef::Shapere (1980)]]abstract.
However, if an article == Page Numbers ==Whenever the source you are citing is in a collection of book (rather than a book section or paper), you should '''always''' give the relevant page numbers. Whenever you are directly quoting the authorsource, you should '''s papersalways''' give the page number, we don't indicate regardless of the nature of the editors but source. To indicate a specific page of the collection author through citation, please add <code><nowiki>|p. <pagenumber></nowiki></code> to the <code><nowiki>|collectionauthor[[CiteRef...]]</nowiki></code> parameterannotation. For example, thus:<code><nowiki>[[CiteRef::Lakatos Barseghyan (19702015)|p. xii]] <syntaxhighlight lang="html4strict"/nowiki></code>{{#scitewill produce this result:[[CiteRef::Lakatos Barseghyan (19702015) |type=collection |author=Lakatos, Imre |title=Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes |year=1970 |collectionauthor=Lakatos |collectionyear=1978 |collectiontitle=Philosophical Papers, Volume I |pages=8-101 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521280310}}</syntaxhighlight>p. xii]].
== Online Resources ==For online resourcesreferences to '''multiple pages''', please choose one of the above templates and add a use <code><nowiki> |url=pp.</nowiki></code> parameter to indicate the url instead of the resource<code><nowiki>|p. For instance</nowiki></code>, an article in ''The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' will go under the e.g. <code><nowiki> [[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|type=collectionpp. 1-3]]</nowiki></code>:[[CiteRef::Bird Barseghyan (20112015)|pp. 1-3]]
<syntaxhighlight lang="html4strict">{{#scite:Allain (2016) |type=journal |author=Allain, Rhett |titleUp to Three Authors or Editors =Using Gravitational Waves to Pinpoint Colliding Black Holes |journal=Wired |year=2016 |url=http://wwwIf a resource has up to three authors or editors, all of them will be openly listed. E.wiredg.com/2016/02/using-gravitational-waves-to-pinpoint-colliding-black-holes/}}</syntaxhighlight>:
== Indicating the Page Number ==To indicate a specific page of the citation, please add <code><nowiki>|pNola and Sankey (Eds. <pagenumber>) (2000)</nowiki></code> to the <code><nowiki>[[CiteRef::Nola and Sankey (Eds...) (2000)]]</nowiki></code> annotation. For example, <code><nowiki>[[CiteRef::Barseghyan Donovan, Laudan, and Laudan (Eds.) (20151988)|p. xii]]</nowiki></code> will produce this result:[[CiteRef::Barseghyan Donovan, Laudan, and Laudan (Eds.) (20151988)|p. xii]].
For references to '''multiple pages'''Note, please use <code><nowiki>|pp.</nowiki></code> instead of <code><nowiki>|p.</nowiki></code>that the names are separated with commas, e.g. as well as an <code><nowiki>[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|pp. 1-3]]and</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 = More than Three Authors or Editors ===If a resource has more than one authorthree authors/editors, instead of <code><nowiki>|author=</nowiki></code> parameter please use <code><nowiki>|authors=et al.</nowiki></code> (plural) parameter:[[CiteRef::Nola and Sankey (Edsin the citation key of the resource.) (2015)]] <syntaxhighlight lang="html4strict">{{#scite:Nola and Sankey (EdsE.) (2015) |type=book |authors=Nola, Robert and Sankey, Howard (Edsg.) |title=After Popper, Kuhn and Feyerabend. Recent Issues in Theories of Scientific Method |year=200 |publisher=Kluwer |isbn=978-1844650859}}</syntaxhighlight>:
Similarly, if a collection has several editors, please use <code><nowiki>|collectioneditors=Olby et al. (Eds.) (1990)</nowiki></code> parameter instead of <code><nowiki>|collectioneditor=</nowiki></code> parameter:[[CiteRef::Kuhn Olby et al. (Eds.) (1970a1990)]]
<syntaxhighlight lang="html4strict">{{#scite:Kuhn (1970a) |type=collection |author=KuhnHowever, Thomas |title=Reflections on My Critics |year=1970 |collectioneditors=Lakatos and Musgrave |collectionyear=1970 |pages=231-278}}<''all'' the authors/syntaxhighlight> This is important, editors should still be listed as this tells such when entering the system to use <code><nowiki>(eds.)</nowiki></code> instead bibliographic record of <code><nowiki>(ed.)</nowiki></code>the resource.
→Articles in Collections
<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>
<code><nowiki>Lakatos and Musgrave (Eds.) (1970)</nowiki></code>[[CiteRef::Lakatos and Musgrave (Eds.) (1970)]]
== Articles in Collections Online Resources ==There To indicate that a resource is available online, simply add its URL in the respective field. No additional actions are two basic types of collections:*collections of articles by different authors;*collections of articles by the same authorrequired.
If an author has more than one publication in the same year, then these publications should be differentiated by adding a letter after the year of the publication, e.g. <syntaxhighlight lang="html4strict"code>{{#scite:Shapere <nowiki>Lakatos (19801978a) |type=collection |author=Shapere, Dudley |title=The Character of Scientific Change |year=1980 |collectioneditor=Nickles |collectionyear=1980 |collectiontitle=Scientific Discovery, Logic </nowiki></code> and Rationality |pages=61-116 |publisher=D Reidel Publishing Company |isbn=9789027710697}}<code><nowiki>Lakatos (1978b)</nowiki></syntaxhighlightcode>.[[CiteRef::Lakatos (1978a)]][[CiteRef::Lakatos (1978b)]]
{{note}} There should be '''no space''' between <syntaxhighlight lang="html4strict"code><nowiki>{{#scite:Bird (2011) |type=collection |author=Bird, Alexander |title=Thomas Kuhn |year=2011 |collectioneditor=Zalta |collectionyear=2016 |url=http:</nowiki></platocode> and <code><nowiki>p.stanford.edu</archivesnowiki></sum2016code>, but there must be a space ''before'' the page number. Thus, <code><nowiki>[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)| p.xii]]</entriesnowiki></thomas-kuhncode> is incorrect, while <code><nowiki>[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p. xii]]</}}nowiki></syntaxhighlightcode>is correct.
== Multiple Authors or Editors ==If the online a resource is a magazine has more than one author or an articleeditor, it will go under <code><nowiki> |type=journal<please make sure that each author/nowiki></code>:[[CiteRef::Allain (2016)]] editor is added to the system individually and all names are indicated when defining 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 separated by a , ''spacewithout''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 ==
The encyclopedia will automatically add '''References''' section to the bottom of the each page. If the position of this section needs to be changed, insert <code><nowiki>{{#referencelist:}}</nowiki></code> at the desired location. In most cases, '''References''' should be the last section on the page. That No additional action is the default behavior if no <code><nowiki>{{#referencelist:}}</nowiki></code> is inserted on the page. So please '''do not insert''' any <code><nowiki>{{#referencelist:}}</nowiki></code> unless you absolutely need to move the '''References''' section from its default location at the bottom of the pagerequired.
== Common Errors ==
=== Multiple Definitions Missing Page Numbers ===Each When a bibliographic resource must be defined precisely once throughout is cited for a specific idea, page numbers are normally required. Simply citing the whole encyclopediabook isn't really helpful; the respective page numbers should be included wherever reasonable. Defining === Wrong Year ===It is tempting to cite the same year of first edition of a resource more than once can lead to unwanted consequenceseven 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 thatwas actually used is to be entered. === Missing Letter ===When entering a resource, it is important to check if the author had other publications in the same year. If so, please make sure that a letter should be added after the year of the resource you are about to define as an differentiate the publications within the same year, e.g. e.g. <code><nowiki>{{#scite}}Feyerabend (1975a)</nowiki></code> entry doesn't existand <code><nowiki>Feyerabend (1975b)</nowiki></code>. If the letters are missing, different resources cannot be properly differentiated.
=== wRong cAse ===
=== Beware of Spaces ===
{{note}} There is no space after <code><nowiki>::</nowiki></code>. Thus, <code><nowiki>[[CiteRef:: Bird (2011)]]</nowiki></code> is invalid. The valid markup is <code><nowiki>[[CiteRef::Bird (2011)]]</nowiki></code>.
=== Citation Before Period or Comma ===
{{note}} Citations that ''precede'' a comma or a period look ugly[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p.1]]. They look much better when placed ''after'' the period.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p.1]]
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