Learn to Edit Wikipedia

References can be added much more easily in VisualEditor than they can be in Wikitext markup.​

After clicking the "Edit" tab on your user page, add a little bit of text and then click the "Cite" button in the edit toolbar. Make sure that your cursor is at the end of the text entered, after the punctuation.​

I recommend always using the manual method for adding a citation because the results are better. Click on the type of citation you are creating: website, book, news, or journal.​

Fill out all the fields you can. This is how the website citation wizard looks before data is entered.​

This is how the website citation wizard looks after data is entered. When you are finished, click the blue "Insert" button.​

This is how a new website citation appears immediately after it is created.​

This is how the book citation wizard looks after data is entered.​

This is how a new book citation appears immediately after it is created.​

This is how the news citation wizard looks after data is entered.​

This is how a new news citation appears immediately after it is created.​

To create a list of references at the bottom of the page, place your cursor at the bottom and click the "Insert" drop-down menu. Then, click on the "Template" option in the drop-down menu.​

Type the word "reflist" in the search bar.​

Click the "Insert" button.​

This is how the template will look in VisualEditor.​

This is how the list of references will appear after the page is saved.​

When creating a list of references in an article, always create a heading over the Reflist template that is titled "References". To do this, write "References" over the template in VisualEditor.​

Then, click on the "Paragraph" drop-down menu and select "Heading".​

This is how the "References" heading will then appear in VisualEditor.​