Editing Encyclopedia:Citing sources (section)

====Parenthetical referencing====
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Inline [[parenthetical referencing]] is '''deprecated''' on Wikipedia.<ref group="note">[[Special:PermanentLink/976895063#Deprecate parenthetical citations|September 2020 request for comments]]</ref> This includes short citations in parentheses placed ''within the article text itself'', such as {{!xt|(Smith 2010, p. 1)}}. This does not affect short citations that use {{tag|ref|o}} tags, which are not inline parenthetical references; see the [[#Short and full citations|section on short citations]] above for that method. This also does not affect explanatory footnotes. Some editors prefer to minimize the number of layers of footnoting for readability, but some featured articles have three layers of footnote (explanatory note, short cite, and full cite).

This should no longer be used, and should be replaced with footnotes if encountered:
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The Sun is pretty big (Miller 2005, p. 1), but the Moon is not so big (Brown 2006, p. 2). The Sun is also quite hot (Miller 2005, p. 3).
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* Brown, R. (2006). "Size of the Moon", ''Scientific American'', 51 (78).
* Miller, E. (2005). ''The Sun'', Academic Press.
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