User:Zoeannl/Project guideline/Proofreader’s Guide/References, Footnotes and Endnotes

References in Mainspace
Little arrow links to place in text. [1] Notation links to footnote.

References in Pagespace
Proofread footnotes (references at the bottom of the page) and insert between where it is referenced in the text. Remove any markers such as * or $1.$ These will be automatically placed on transclusion.

Separate paragraphs within the footnote with the double return template at the end of the paragraphs:

Footnotes are gathered from each page and listed together at the end of the transcluded work. Columns of footnotes are reformatted to a singe column list to enable successful transclusion. See columns.

Endnotes are just footnotes that have been located together at the end of a chapter or at the end of the book, instead of on the bottom of each page. These are proofread in the same manner as footnotes.

Types of footnote
In publishing there are, and have been, various methods of printing notes: either as notes at the bottom of the page, or aggregated at the end of a chapter or section. Sometimes all notes are accumulated as lists at the end of the book.

Footnotes are often indicated by numbers or typographical symbols: such as the section §, the Pilcrow or paragraph mark ¶, the single and double daggers † & ‡, and the asterisk *.

Adding footnotes
On Wikisource all footnotes should be use implemented with tags. These can be automatically collected and listed by another tag at the bottom of the page: either reflist or smallrefs.

Missing ref marker
Page:The Gradual Acceptance of the Copernican Theory of the Universe.djvu/72

Exemplars and examples

 * Shackleton's diaries/Endurance
 * [|Above the battle] paragraphs
 * Grimm's Household Tales, Volume 1/Rapunzel (in title)
 * 1911_Encyclopædia_Britannica/Abdication (in table)
 * Phantasmagoria and Other Poems/The Lang Coortin’ (in poem) - ref must be with text, within other formatting
 * Page:Solution_of_the_Child_Labor_Problem.djvu/77 (Link in ref; double ref)
 * Prometheus Unbound; a lyrical drama in four acts with other poems (reference with paragraphs— used )
 * Page:The Gradual Acceptance of the Copernican Theory of the Universe.djvu/58 (double reference)
 * Page:The_Works_of_William_Harvey_(part_1_of_2).djvu/11 (reference in footnote)
 * Page:Symonds - A Problem in Modern Ethics.djvu/61, Page:Symonds - A Problem in Modern Ethics.djvu/99 internal reference
 * Page:The Harvard Classics Vol. 3.djvu/346 triple ref


 * 1951_Refugee_Convention (ref list within text, double ref)

Original Image:

The principal persons involved in this argument were Caesar*, former military leader and Imperator, and the orator Cicero†. Both were of the aristocratic (Patrician) class, and were quite wealthy.

† Marcus Tullius Cicero.
 * Gaius Julius Caesar.

Correctly Proofread Text:

The principal persons involved in this argument were Caesar, former military leader and Imperator, and the orator Cicero. Both were of the aristocratic (Patrician) class, and were quite wealthy.

The principal persons involved in this argument were Caesar, former military leader and Imperator, and the orator Cicero. Both were of the aristocratic (Patrician) class, and were quite wealthy.

Original Footnoted Poetry: Mary had a little lamb$[1]$
 * Whose fleece was white as snow

And everywhere that Mary went
 * The lamb was sure to go!

1 This lamb was obviously of the Hampshire breed, well known for the pure whiteness of their wool.

A most determined ovine.

Correctly Proofread Text:

Mary had a little lamb
 * Whose fleece was white as snow

And everywhere that Mary went
 * The lamb was sure to go!

Mary had a little lamb
 * Whose fleece was white as snow

And everywhere that Mary went
 * The lamb was sure to go!