Battlestar Wiki:Tutorial (Citing)
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Citing your sources is the number one goal. Without citing, we can not be a realiable source for the information of the Battlestar Galactica universe. This section is not going to tell you when to cite, but how to cite. In the past few months, we came up with a way to standerize the way "cites" looked. So we imported templates from Wikipedia and edited them to fit our needs. All of the citation templates that we use are located at BW:CITETEM.
All the citation templates same way, but this tutorial is going to show you the most commonly used template, which is the {{cite web}} citation template. Also if you view each template, each template has it's own extensive documentation so you know how to use it and how the fields should be entered. Please open the {{cite web}} citation template in another window, so you can follow along as we will not be posting any information here, that can be found on the template page.
Basic placement
- Main article: Battlestar Wiki:Citation Jihad
All citation templates should be placed inbetween <ref>template here</ref> tags as stated in the BW:CITE project. This will auto format the citations in the correct way and allow cross referencing.
{{cite web}}
The most basic "options" for the template we will be using in this example. That means the layout we will be using is as follows: {{cite web|url= |title= |date= |accessdate= |last= |first= |format= |language= }}.
This is a sample text from Gabriel Köerner. The URL has been shorted for formating purposes:
In 2005, Köerner contributed the CGI model of the ''Enterprise-D'' seen in the last scene of the ''Star Trek: Enterprise'' series finale, "These Are the Voyages...". <ref name="trekweb">{{cite web|url=http://trekweb.com/stbbs/|title=Post to TrekWeb.com|accessdate=2006-08-24|date=2006-05-09}}</ref>