Powerbase:A Guide to Referencing

For those people inputting material, when you put in a reference please use the references and citations procedure set out below.

You generate a reference (ie a superscript number at the end of a quotation) using eg. {{ref|guardianMacalister}}, and you label the corresponding citation (at the bottom of the page with the full reference) using {{note|guardianMacalister}}. Readers can see where a given citation is referenced in the article by clicking the up-arrow link next to it.

Here's an example:

In February 2006 The Guardian reported how "A small group of American companies such as Bechtel and Fluor look set to grab the lion's share of a £50bn British nuclear clean-up programme which should get the green light within weeks but take decades to complete. [1] Notes ^Terry Macalister, "Engineers in Line for jobs until 2080 on Britain's Nuclear Clean-up", The Guardian, February 16, 2005.