Editing Encyclopedia:Citing sources (section)

====<span id="MultiPages"></span>Citing multiple pages of the same source====
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When an article cites many different pages from the same source, to avoid the redundancy of many big, nearly identical full citations, most Wikipedia editors use one of these options:
* [[WP:NAMEDREFS|Named references]] in conjunction with a combined list of page numbers using the [[Help:Citation Style 1#Pages|{{para|pages}}]] parameter of the {{cite xxx}} templates (can become confusing for large number of pages)
* Named references in conjunction with the {{tl2|rp}} or {{tl2|r}} templates to specify the page
* [[WP:CITESHORT|Short citations]]

The use of ''[[ibid.]]'', ''[[id.]]'', or similar abbreviations is discouraged, as they may become broken as new references are added (''[[op. cit.]]'' is less problematic in that it should refer explicitly to a citation contained in the article; however, not all readers are familiar with the meaning of the terms). If the use of ''ibid'' is extensive, tag the article using the {{tl|ibid}} template.