Template:Format footnotes/doc

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Usage

Use {{format footnotes|date=December 2024}} to alert editors to articles with citations that are incorrectly formatted or not formatted at all.

This template will add the page to Category:Articles needing references cleanup.

Examples

Use in an article with citations like:

Australia has a government Australian Government.

or

Australia has a government^{see footnote 1}

A standard, correct way of formatting this citation would be:

Australia has a government.^[1]
References
change

↑ Australian Goverment Press Agency (25 November 2009). "Australian Goverment". Retrieved 25 November 2009.

Related pages

[1] Australian Goverment Press Agency (25 November 2009). "Australian Goverment". Retrieved 25 November 2009.

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