User:John R. Brews/Sample2

See also Help:Index/Formatting/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 references that do not clutter the edit page version of the main text. It is a method more easily understood by new users.

How LDR works

The basic templates used for bibliographic information are the same {{cite book}}, {{cite journal}} and {{cite web}} templates used with the <ref>-</ref> method. However, these templates are placed not in the text, but at the end of the article following a References header using {{reflist}} and the format:

{{reflist|refs=              (notice the vertical separator and refs=)

<ref name=Ref1> {{cite book ...}} </ref>  (this is first reference)

<ref name=Ref2> {{cite book ...}} </ref>  (this is second reference, separated by a space)

}}                  (these are additional final braces)

where the names "Ref1", "Ref2" are arbitrary creations of the writer. Connection to these definitions from the text is done with an insertion, such as <ref name=Ref1/>, but notice, with a forward slash.

Example

The References section for an article might appear as follows:

==References==

{{reflist|refs=

<ref name=MyFirstRef> I love to use List-defined references. </ref>

<ref name=MySecondRef> They are easy to edit at the end of the article instead of searching all over for them. </ref>

<ref name=MyThirdRef> It's a win-win.</ref>

}}

Using these references, this is how they appear on an edit page of an article using "List-Defined References" :

List-defined references are easy to set up.<ref name=MyFirstRef/> They do not clutter the main text,<ref name=MySecondRef/> making editing easier. <ref name=MyThirdRef/>

This is what the above coding produces on the article page :

List-defined references are easy to set up. They do not clutter the main text, making editing easier. References

Real-world examples can be seen in the article Set (mathematics), which is formatted using the CZ:List-defined references methodology. The article Coriolis force also is formatted using the CZ:List-defined references method, but using the template {{reflist2}}, which works in exactly the same way, but results in a two-column format for the reference listing.