Help:VisualEditor/User guide/Citations-Full

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

Citoid is a service that automatically creates a citation template given a URL, DOI, ISBN, PMID, PMCID or QID. It has a companion extension, Citoid, which makes use of VisualEditor's citation tool to provide the citoid service to VisualEditor.

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: Automatic, Manual, and Re-use.

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

Adding a citation outside of a footnote
How to create a ==Further reading== list using Insert > Template > Cite book (etc.)