Help:VisualEditor/User guide/Citations-Full/en

Overview
This page is a guide to adding footnotes (also called "citations", "inline citations" or "references") when both the VisualEditor's citation tool and the citoid service has been configured for your wiki.

The citoid service automatically creates a footnote when you give it a URL, DOI, ISBN, PMID, PMCID, QID, title, citation. It has a companion extension, Citoid, which uses VisualEditor's citation tool and citation templates.

The toolbar
The VisualEditor toolbar appears at the top of the screen when you begin editing. It includes the icons that will be needed in order to add citations to the page.



Add a new reference
Click on the "" button in the toolbar. This will open a dialog box with three tabs:, , and.

(If the tab is disabled, this means citoid is not enabled. If the Manual tab is disabled, this means the citation tool is not enabled. Instructions on how to enable the citation tool are available at VisualEditor/Citation tool. Instructions on how to configure citoid are available at Citoid/Enabling Citoid on your wiki.)

There are two ways to add footnotes from the tab: using a standard citation template, or using the "Basic" form.