How to create references

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It is not difficult to have footnotes on your page, with corresponding references listed out in a footer at the bottom of the page. Here is how.

1. Edit the page that you want to have references and footnotes on.
2. Go to the end of a piece of text that you want to add a reference for (in other words, the exact place that you want the superscript number to appear. For example, directly after a sentence like Researchers have found that natural disasters do not impede microenterprises as much as they do larger enterprises.
3. At that place in the text, you will type the text <ref> followed by the full reference associated with that piece of information, then followed by </ref>. Note the added slash in the second "ref" code. In our example mentioned above, you could edit the text so that it said: Researchers have found that natural disasters do not impede microenterprises as much as they do larger enterprises.<ref>Jon Morgan, Microfi Journal, April 2006.</ref>
4. The only step that remains is to tell the page where it is that you want it to display the list of footnote references that are on that page. Traditionally, of course, this is placed at the bottom of the page. Most pages also tend to place those footnotes under a new section heading called Notes. Therefore, all you have to do is the following. Edit your page and go to the very bottom of the page. Enter a new line of text that says ==Notes==. Then, in the line below, simply add the following code, which tells the system where to place the list of references: <references/>
5. When you have saved those edits, and if you have typed the codes correctly, then for each of the references you placed throughout your text, there will be a numbered footnote number in superscript, and then at the bottom there should be a Notes section with the references listed out in order.