User:Rootsmusic/sandbox

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switch to source editing, and find the reference you want to use again.

After the word ref make a gap and add the word name along witn an = sign.

So that it looks like this ref name=.

After the equals sign, give the reference a name (preferably related to the subject) in quotation marks, along with a gap and a / symbol after the reference name, for example:

ref name="Football" /

Then all you have to do is copy all the stuff between the...

< and the...

> symbols...

In my example "all the stuff" is ref name="Football" /

Then paste it next to the information you want to reference.

So it will look like this...

'^[1]

"Football" as the name for a reference used more than once, then one instance (conventionally but not necessarily the first) should be <ref name="Football">[all the details of author(s), title, access date, etc, here]</ref>, and each of the others should be the much simpler <ref name="Football" />. (Incidentally, the name "Football" will only be visible to people editing the article.) The full-details instance may use one of the "cite" templates (e.g. Template:Cite web), but it doesn't have to do so.