CZ:List-defined references

List-defined references (LDR) is a referencing method that moves the text of the references out of the main body of an article and into the "References" section at the bottom of the article.

LDR is a way to make referencing of article contents much simpler and with a great deal less cluttering of the article's main body text in the edit page. That will make reading of the edit page and making revisions much easier. Creating LDR is not only simpler than the previous methods, it is a method that will be more easily understood by new users.

Overview of how LDR works
This section explains the steps and coding to be used in the edit page of a Citizendium article in order to cite references as the sources for words or statements (sentences or paragraphs) in the main body of the article.

The user creates a short unique id (identifier or name) for each individual reference which is formatted like this:
 * Where xxxx is the reference's full text. Quotation marks enclosing the (&thinsp; / &thinsp;) are not needed.

Note that the forward slash (&thinsp; / &thinsp;) is not included after the id for the listed full-text references in "References" section.

Some rules

 * When a comma or a period is located immediately to the right of a word or statement where the user wants to locate a reference id (e.g.,  ), the id should be located immediately to the right of the comma or the period and should be separated from the next word or next sentence by a single blank character space.


 * A blank, line space must be provided between each listed reference.

Example
This is how to code the edit page of an article using "List-Defined References"&thinsp;:

This is what the above coding produces on the article page&thinsp;:

A style note
Note that the and  templates used in the above coding example are formatted with the cells in a horizontal style rather than a vertical style where the cells are in a vertical column. The horizontal style looks neater and definitely uses less space. However, the horizontal style is only a suggestion, it is not mandatory.