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Easy Citation Example 1

 

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This is an example of how to use easy citations. Just look at the source of this page to see the details of how it is done.

You use easy citations to cite items in a bibliography by writing cite(key) which results in [2]. This cites an item in the bibliography list that is automatically generated and placed at the end of the current page. One simple use for citations is have a list of various web pages that you want to refer to as in this example:

Note that citing an item twice does not produce a new number. The use of numbers to refer to items in the bibliography is called using a numerical citation style. There is also a textual citation style, see ??? for an example on how to use that. You can change the citation style by adding a fmt to the (:bib:) directive.

How do I use it?

There are two steps two using easy citations:

• Add a bibliographic database to the page where you write the information about the things you wish to cite¹. This can be as simple as writing:

  (:bib:)
  : key : Text of the reference that will show up in the bibliography.
  : pmwiki : http://pmwiki.org
  (:bibend:)
  

• Cite your references. This can be as simple as writing cite(key) which results in [2].

See ?? for further information and examples.

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• Christian Ridderström

¹ to cite means to refer to an item in the bibliography (↑)