Wikipedia:Citation Templates - Use in Footnotes

Use in Footnotes

For more details on this topic, see Help:Footnotes.

For a citation to appear in a footnote, it needs to be enclosed in "ref" tags. You can add these by typing at the front of the citation and at the end. Alternatively you may notice above the edit box there is a row of "markup" formatting buttons which include a button to the right—if you highlight your whole citation and then click this markup button, it will automatically enclose your citation in ref tags (i.e. citation).

Note, if this is a new page or if there are not already references previously cited, it is necessary to create a section usually named "Notes" or "References" near the end of the page; see WP:FNNR and MOS:APPENDIX for more information on section names:

== Notes ==

or

== Notes == {{Reflist}}