Reference Decluttering

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Footnotes belong at the foot of the document - and that goes for markup source as well!
This is how it's done:
Some Fact.<ref name="Ref One"/>
And then at the bottom the == References == section:

{{reflist|refs=

<ref name="Ref One">
  {{cite web
    | last       = 
    | first      = 
    | title      = Whatever It's Called
    | date       = 
    | website    = 
    | publisher  = 
    | url        = http://www.hatev.er.URL.it's.at
    | accessdate = 
  }}
</ref>

}}

Consult Wikipedia:Citing_sources#Avoiding_clutter for further details.

Style

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The URL is *not* the most important information in quoting a source. Not even when quoting a website. It should be close to the end of the "ref" block.

Multiple Quotes with different Page numbers

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After the first full Cite use:

<ref>Miller 2005, p. 34.</ref>

-- WP:CITESHORT#Short citations


Alternatively some users seem to use:

<ref name=Shurtleff/>{{rp|419}}

Book Collection

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<ref>
{{cite book
 | last= Mason
 | first= Robert
 | authorlink= Robert Mason (writer)
 | title= Chickenhawk
 | year= 1983
 | publisher= Corgi Books
 | location= London
 | ISBN= 978-0-552-12419-5 
}}
</ref>

<ref>
{{cite book
 | last= Talbot
 | first= David
 | authorlink= David Talbot
 | title= The Devil's Chessboard
 | year= 2015
 | publisher= William Collins
 | location= London
 | ISBN= 978-0-00-815966-5
}}
</ref>

<ref>
{{cite encyclopedia
  | dictionary = Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language
  | title = <lemma in dictionary here>
  | edition = 
  | year = 1986
  | publisher = Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
  | volume = I (A-G)
  | isbn = 0-85229-503-0
}}
</ref>

<ref>
{{cite encyclopedia
  | dictionary = lo Zingarelli, Vocabolario della Lingua italiana
  | title = <lemma in dictionary here>
  | edition = 12
  | year = 2007
  | publisher = Zanichelli
  | isbn = 978-3-12-517365-1
}}
</ref>

<ref name=Keith>
  {{cite book
    | last= Keith
    | first= Elmer
    | authorlink= Elmer Keith
    | title= Sixguns
    | year= 2012
    | publisher= Martino Publishing
    | location= Mansfield Centre, CT
    | ISBN= 978-1-61427-282-3 
  }}
</ref>

<ref>
{{cite book
 | last= Fall
 | first= Bernard B.
 | authorlink= Bernard B. Fall
 | title= Street Without Joy
 | year= 1961, ..., 2018
 | publisher= Stackpole Books
 | location= Guilford, CT
 | ISBN= 978-0-8117-3654-1 
}}
</ref>