Thread:Extension talk:Cite/Mimic Wikipedia's Cite/reply

different wikis (such as enwiki) wrap the references with templates. if you want to use this extension in the simplest way, do not use any templates, but rather use the tags: the cites themselves appear on the page between tags, and then, somewhere on the page (customarily at the end), you also need a tag (i.e., a self-closing "references" tag).

once you get this to work, you can start to play with more advanced features, and specifically with the "name" and "group" attributes.

peace