<span class="mw-page-title-namespace">Template</span><span class="mw-page-title-separator">:</span><span class="mw-page-title-main">Cite</span>
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The footnote marker of a citation: {{cite|delvalle12a}} gives[1], a numbered link to the reference at the bottom of the page, with the full citation as a tooltip. The reference itself is the template of the same name (Template:Delvalle12a), generated from bibTeX as described in this blog post.

Several keys, comma-separated or as separate parameters, go in one pair of brackets, as a physics paper cites them: {{cite|delvalle12a,laussy04a}} gives[[1],[2]] and {{cite|delvalle12a|laussy04a|kavokin07a}} gives[[1],[2],[3]]; both forms mix, and each number keeps its own footnote link and tooltip. A single key is plain wikitext ({{cite/mark}}); with more than one the grouping is done by Module:Citer and the bracket pair is styled by the .citer-group rules in MediaWiki:Common.css.

See also {{onlinecite}} for the same marker set inline, {{citer}} for "Ref./Refs." and {{citet}} for the sentence-style "Author et al." form.