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Use of italics should conform to Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Text formatting § Italic type. Do not use articles (a, an, or the) as the first word (Economy of the Second Empire, not The economy of the Second Empire), unless it is an inseparable part of a name (The Hague) or title of a work (A Clockwork Orange, The Simpsons).
This guide presents the typical layout of Wikipedia articles, including the sections an article usually has, ordering of sections, and formatting styles for various elements of an article. For advice on the use of wiki markup, see Help:Editing; for guidance on writing style, see Manual of Style.
The short citations and full citations may be linked so that the reader can click on the short note to find full information about the source. See the template documentation for details and solutions to common problems. For variations with and without templates, see wikilinks to full references. For a set of realistic examples, see these.
For example, citing an article in an edited collection uses the misnamed { {cite encyclopedia}} template, with |title= for the article name and |encyclopedia= for the collection name; the equivalent parameters in { {Citation}} are named contribution and title, respectively.
The word "source" in Wikipedia has three meanings: the work itself (for example, a document, article, paper, or book), the creator of the work (for example, the writer), and the publisher of the work (for example, Cambridge University Press).
Templates are a very powerful feature of MediaWiki, but can be confusing to new users and even experienced users can have difficulty making sense of the more complex ones. Templates should therefore be accompanied by documentation to improve usability. Template documentation should explain what a template does and how to use it.
As explained in more detail at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout § Standard appendices and footers, optional appendix sections containing the following information may appear after the body of the article in the following order: A list of books or other works created by the subject of the article (works) A list of internal "wikilinks" to related Wikipedia articles (see also) Notes and ...
Wiki markup quick reference (PDF download) For a full list of editing commands, see Help:Wikitext For including parser functions, variables and behavior switches, see Help:Magic words For a guide to displaying mathematical equations and formulas, see Help:Displaying a formula For a guide to editing, see Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia For an overview of commonly used style guidelines, see ...