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Here at the sartorias-deles wiki, we have a specific way of citing things so that references can be checked and traced easily. Unless you are Sherwood Smith herself (she is the only person exempt from citations), it is a good idea to list your references so that other readers know where you got your information. Some things can be considered common knowledge, but as a very general guideline, anything that the casual reader of one of the stories would not know (or would not remember after one read-through) should be referenced.
PmWiki does not yet have an easy citation markup, so we will provide our own for now. There are two parts in citing an article, using page anchors and a reference section. The page anchors may seem superfluous at first when articles are short, but they will come in extremely handy for longer articles.
'^[[#ref | #]]^'. The double brackets treat it like a regular link, but the #ref is the page anchor and the # automatically generates the number 1. The '^ and ^' make the reference into a superscript, for style reasons. It should show up like this: [1]
'^[[#ref | #]]^''s elsewhere in the article if needed; the numbers should show up automatically. We have [2] and [3] respectively. If you type it again, you will have 4 and 5 in brackets as well, and so on.
#ref for the entire article, and this is the place where #ref will be defined. Type [[#ref]]. On the next line, list all of your citations by number.
[[http://www.something.com | link]]
Note: The above format can be used for footnotes as well. Just put the footnote in at the bottom instead of a citation.[4]
In the end, the reference section should look something like this when you type it:
[[#ref]] # Citation [[http://www.something.com | link]] # Citation # Citation # This is a footnote.
And at the bottom of the page, you'll see this:
(For the full effect, scroll back up and click on the numbers in brackets.)
Sherwood has written a lot of stories, so there needs to be a simple way to refer to them. The abbreviation should replace the Citation text in the reference table above. It should consist of a source code, a period (.) and then a string of numbers, these numbers indicating the page (if it is published), the chapter (if it is unpublished), or the message or digest number (if it is an internet source).
Examples:
IN.p382
SHEV.ch16
D.46
Citation where it is supposed to be up there, write Citation needed - insert reason here. The reason could be in the LJ archives or on page 131 of the paperback edition of... etc. Someone will (eventually) come along and correct it.