User blog comment:Maopyon/Using References and Citations on ALL questionable information (especially on the trivia section)/@comment-131168-20131208144046

I had not really used specially-formated references on wikis or in HTML before, so to figure it out I was looking at the ones Maopyon started using. It's a little ugly to try and read examples stuck in the middle of everywhere on big pages, though, so here's the more straightforward version.

Where you want to place a reference, just put something between tags. If you put an URL in there it will automatically treat it like a link, but you can still use the regular method of making a link if you want to give different link text. Plain text will just be left as is. Here are some examples:

The name thing is optional, but allows you to reuse the same reference elsewhere on the page. To reference that Japan Times article again, one would put in

To make the references show up presentably at the bottom of the page if the section isn't already there is easy. In most cases just make sure to put

==References==

above the External Links and it will be done. The 3 is a setting that can be changed if need be, representing the number of columns to split the references into.