Template:Refbegin/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:Refbegin (see that page for the template itself).
It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

Usage

I have suggested this template as an option for usage in the second and third of three options for citing notes on a wikipedia article. The original discussion can be found here. Below is a copy of the 3 suggested options...

Option 1 (only specific references) - see The Rule

== References ==

{{reflist}}

Option 2 (only general references) - see National Publications

== References ==

{{refbegin}}
* general reference 1
* general reference 2
{{refend}}

Option 3 (both specific and general references) - see Elephant

== References ==

{{reflist}}

{{refbegin}}
* general reference 1
* general reference 2
{{refend}}

Arguments

As in {{reflist}}, the number of columns can be given as the first argument of {{refbegin}}, such as {{refbegin|2}} (defaults to 1).

See also

• {{Refbegin}} –required closing tag template, if {refend} is used

• {{Colbegin}}

Reference and citation guidelines

• Wikipedia:Citing sources
• Wikipedia:Footnotes

Citation formatting and presentation templates

• WP:CITET –description of various templates to format individual citation references

Other reference and citation formatting templates

• Auto-generated listing of footnotes and inline citations
  • {{reflist}}
• Reference list formatting
  • {{Ref indent}} –applies a hanging indent formatting to reference and citation lists (pair with {ref indent-end}})
  • {{Ref indent-end}} –closing tag to {ref indent}
  • {{Footnotes}}