Help:Referencing for beginners

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Policies and guidelines	Verifiability No original research Biographies of living persons Reliable sources Medicine Citing sources Scientific citations
General advice	Citation needed Combining sources Offline sources Referencing styles
Citing sources	Citation Style 1 Citation Style 2 Bluebook Comics Citation templates
Inline citations	Footnotes Punctuation and footnotes Shortened footnotes Nesting footnotes List-defined references
Help for beginners	Reference-tags Citations quick reference Introduction to referencing Referencing with citation templates Referencing without using templates Referencing dos and don'ts Citing Wikipedia
Advanced help	Cite link labels Cite errors Citation merging (bundling) Cite messages Converting between references formats Reference display customization References and page numbers Guidance on source reviewing at FAC Cite extension documentation
Footnote templates	Citation Style documentation Multiple references {{Reflist}} {{Refbegin}}
Find references	How to find sources Bibliographies Wikipedia Library Resource Exchange Reference Desk Book Sources Free newspaper sources
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General templates	{{Cite book}} books {{Cite conference}} conference papers {{Cite document}} short, stand-alone, offline documents {{Cite encyclopedia}} edited collections {{Cite interview}} interviews {{Cite journal}} academic journals {{Cite magazine}} magazines {{Cite mailing list}} public mailing lists {{Cite map}} maps {{Cite news}} news articles {{Cite newsgroup}} online newsgroups {{Cite press release}} press releases {{Cite report}} unpublished reports {{Cite sign}} signs, plaques {{Cite speech}} speeches {{Cite tech report}} technical reports {{Cite thesis}} theses {{Cite web}} web sources
Preprint templates	{{Cite arXiv}} {{Cite bioRxiv}} {{Cite CiteSeerX}} {{Cite medRxiv}} {{Cite SSRN}}
Audiovisual-related	{{Cite AV media}} {{Cite AV media notes}} {{Cite episode}} {{Cite podcast}} {{Cite serial}}
Categories	Citation Style 1 templates Citation Style 1 specific-source templates
Documentation	{{Citation Style documentation}}
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