Editing Chabadpedia:Manual of Style/Layout (section)

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{{hatnote|For how to generate and format these sections, see [[Help:Footnotes]], [[Help:Shortened footnotes]], and [[Chabadpedia:Citing sources]] (particularly {{slink|Chabadpedia:Citing sources|How to create the list of citations|nopage=yes}}).}}
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{{See also|Chabadpedia:Manual of Style/Text formatting#Citations}}
[[File:Chabadpedia layout sample Notes References.png|thumb|upright=0.8|alt=The same article, with a horizontal section near the bottom highlighted, containing a two-column and a one-column section.|Notes and References appear after See also (click on image for larger view).]]

'''Contents:''' This section, or series of sections, may contain any or all of the following:

# [[Help:Footnotes#Footnotes: predefined groups|Explanatory footnotes]] that give information which is too detailed or awkward to be in the body of the article
# [[Chabadpedia:Citing sources#Inline citations|Citation footnotes]] (either short citations or full citations) that connect specific material in the article with specific sources
# Full citations to sources, if [[Chabadpedia:Citing sources#Short citations|short citations]] are used in the footnotes
# [[Chabadpedia:Citing sources#General references|General references]] (full bibliographic citations to sources that were consulted in writing the article but that are not explicitly connected to any specific material in the article)

[[Chabadpedia:Citing sources#Variation in citation methods|Editors may use any citation method they choose]], but it should be consistent within an article.

If there are both citation footnotes and explanatory footnotes, then they may be combined in a single section, or separated using the [[Help:Footnotes#Grouping footnotes|grouped footnotes]] function. General references and other full citations may similarly be either combined or separated (e.g. "References" and "General references"). There may therefore be one, two, three or four sections in all.

It is most common for only citation footnotes to be used, and therefore it is most common for only one section ("References") to be needed. Usually, if the sections are separated, then explanatory footnotes are listed first, short citations or other footnoted citations are next, and any full citations or general references are listed last. General references should be sorted logically (for example, by subject matter), chronologically, or alphabetically.

'''Heading names:''' Editors may use any reasonable section and subsection names that they choose.{{efn|One reason this guideline does not standardize section headings for citations and explanatory notes is that Chabadpedia draws editors from many disciplines (history, English, science, etc.), each with its own note and reference section-naming convention (or conventions). For more, see [[Chabadpedia:Perennial proposals#Changes to standard appendices|Chabadpedia:Perennial proposals § Changes to standard appendices]], [[Chabadpedia:Perennial proposals#Establish a house citation style|§ Establish a house citation style]], and [[Template:Cnote2/example]].}} The most frequent choice is "References". Other options, in diminishing order of popularity, are "Notes", "Footnotes" or "Works cited", although these are more often used to distinguish between multiple end-matter sections or subsections.

Several alternate titles ("Sources", "Citations", "Bibliography") may also be used, although each is questionable in some contexts: "Sources" may be confused with [[source code]] in computer-related articles, product purchase locations, river origins, [[journalism sourcing]], etc.; "Citations" may be confused with official awards, or a summons to court; "Bibliography" may be confused with the complete list of printed works by the subject of a biography ("Works" or "Publications").

If multiple sections are wanted, then some possibilities include:
* For a list of explanatory footnotes or shortened citation footnotes: "Notes", "Endnotes" or "Footnotes"
* For a list of full citations or general references: "References" or "Works cited"

With the exception of "Bibliography", the heading should be plural even if it lists only a single item.{{efn|name=pluralHeading}}