[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Mediawiki-l] that awful <ref> syntax

[Carl Beckhorn]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 08:30:46PM -0500, Aude wrote:
> The other user helping with this article is an academic expert.  So I wanted
> to make the references simple as could be and just did them like this
> <ref>Rotter (1954)</ref> or like this <ref>Millon (2004), p. 353</ref>  

Even simpler is to use Harvard referencing and use footnotes for 
parenthetical comments that belong in footnotes. For example, 

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_logic

It's even possible to get the inline citations to link to the full 
reference, although it isn't completely implemented in that article yet.

- Carl