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Inline citations are usually small, numbered footnotes like this.<ref>{{cite book |author-last=Wales |author-first=Jimmy |title=What is an inline citation? |date={{CURRENTYEAR}} |publisher=Wikipublisher |page=6}}</ref> They are generally added either directly following the fact that they support, or at the end of the sentence that they support, following any punctuation. When clicked, they take the reader to a citation in a reference section near the bottom of the article.

While editing a page that uses the most common footnote style, you will see inline citations displayed between <code><nowiki><ref></nowiki>...<nowiki></ref></nowiki></code> tags.

If you are creating a new page, or adding references to a page that didn't previously have any, remember to add a References section like the one below [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout#Order of article elements|near the end]] of the article:
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''Note: This is by far the most popular system for inline citations, but sometimes you will find [[Wikipedia:Inline citations|other styles]] being used in an article. This [[WP:CITEVAR|is acceptable]], and you shouldn't change it or mix styles. To add a new reference, just copy and modify an existing one.''

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