Editing Project:Observatory Users Manual (section)

====== Footnotes, Citations, and Links ======
Here are the best practices for footnotes (whether notes or bibliographic citations) in your Article’s Google Document/Word Document. Once you convert the document into wikitext and upload it to the Observatory, these references will become endnotes. You can insert a footnote by using the “Cite” button (the open-quotation mark icon) in the top ribbon of the Edit text field.
 
In your Google Doc or word processor file, use internal links to sources the same way you would with syndicated Articles if you do not want them to appear as endnotes/footnotes/references.
 
However, we usually want as much of the research you did to appear as references/footnotes at the end of the Observatory Article, so it’s recommended to both use internal links over text to cite sources available online and also to format your links as MLA-style endnotes/footnotes inside the Google Doc/Word Doc prior to conversion. Check the [[Project:Style Guide#Links and Footnotes|Observatory Style Guide]] for more information about citations.
 
In Google Docs:
 
#Put your mouse in the Article document where you want to insert your footnote, then click to keep your cursor there (it should remain blinking).
#In the top menu bar, click '''Insert''' and then pick '''Footnote'''. (You can also use the hotkey command+option+f on a Mac).
#A number will appear where your cursor was in the body text, and a line will appear at the bottom of the page where you can insert and edit your footnote text.
#Google Docs will automatically number your footnotes correctly if you have more than one.
 
The Pandoc/workflow conversion from .docx/.odt files into MediaWiki text files will automatically treat the endnotes/footnotes as references.
 
You may find it’s best to code these using the Visual Editor after upload for new Articles ''(see section: [[Project:Observatory Users Manual#Insert references via Visual Editing (recommended)|Insert references via Visual Editing (recommended)]] for instructions)''.