5Toubun no Hanayome Wiki:Sourcing Guide

This page is a style guide, describing how to create citations in articles.

If you do not know how to format the citation, provide as much information as you can, and others may fix it for you. Cite It!

Why sources should be cited

 * To credit a source for providing useful information and to avoid claims of plagiarism.
 * To show that your edit is not original research.
 * To ensure that the content of articles is credible and can be checked by any reader or editor.
 * To help users find additional reliable information on the topic.
 * To improve the overall credibility and authoritative character of.
 * To reduce the likelihood of editorial disputes, or to resolve any that arise.

Note: and other wiki-based articles and categories cannot be used as sources.

Insertion of a reference
On the Edit page, this is placed at the first insertion point of citation:

This is placed at the second and all subsequent insertion points of citation:

Producing the reference list
Most importantly, add the following code before the Site Navigation section. This code will automatically display the reference list, showing nearly everything tagged with ref tags.

Rules
This list only includes the basics for the rules. For more details, please follow the footnotes provided.
 * 1) Do not reference the introductory paragraph(s) unless you are referencing a recently named character/technique.
 * 2) References go immediately after punctuation and outside of quotation marks, with no space between the end of a sentence and a reference tag. One exception is the use of dashes. References should immediately precede dashes.