Template:Note short footnote style 2 in use/doc

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Usage[edit]

This message should be placed only on article talk pages at the head of the talk page with other notices for articles which appear to follow the particular shortened footnote style. If there is some question about the style intended for the article, instead use the inquiry template {{Note short footnote style 1}} to confirm that style 1 is what contributors have chosen.

To use this template, add this code to an article’s talk page:

{{Note short footnote style 2 in use|sources}}

Where sources is the name of the section or sections where full citations are listed. The default is Cited works.

Example

{{Note short footnote style 2 in use|sources=Cited sources}}

This produces:

In order to maintain an organized list of cited works, this article uses shortened footnotes for all references to cited works, with the full citation placed in the Cited sources section.

Further information

Per Wikipedia:Citing sources, please continue to maintain the same style of use when adding citations. Footnotes will be altered to fit this article's style if they do not conform to the following rule: All full citations should appear in the Cited sources section, and follow whatever the article's convention is for making footnotes to the cited work. See the article for usage examples. The typical convention for an article is to use a short footnote template such as {{sfn}}, {{harvnb}} but plain text could be the convention to be followed. If you have any questions or problems, please ask on the talk page and someone will be happy to help you. Thank you.

The article is added to the hidden maintenance category Category:Articles with notice for sfn style 2 for tracking purposes.

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