Help:How should an article look like

You can find here basic information, how should an article look like.

edit Length of Article

The article should be one chapter long, approximately one page A4 (1.800 characters). Longer articles are usually a bit confusing. When you want to make a longer article, then it is better to split them in more articles which will be shorter.

edit Structure of Article

You should start with simple definition at the beginning of the article. The structure of the article is created by headings. More detailed information how to create headings, can be found here.

edit End of Article

edit Reference

For inserting "reference list" just click on this button :

<noinclude>
== Links ==
=== Related Articles ===
=== Bibliography ===
=== References ===
<references />
</noinclude>

Related articles should contain two or three links to related articles at WikiLectures. Try to find related topics and link to existing articles.

Bibliography is list of all sources that you used when writing the article. You should not copy the text word by word from any source, however, it is highly recommended to provide links to all sources (books, websites, articles) that you used to study the topic.

References are automatically created if you provide some sources in the text. Please use the button to insert some references to the text.

You can delete items, which you do not need. But, please, keep the <noinclude>.

If you can not see this button, you have to activate it:

• Go to My preferences,
• press the tab Gadgets,
• section User buttons,
• click on Edit button "References" (at the end of an article)
• and Save changes.

edit Citation

If you need to create citation of any book, article or website, you can use the template {{Cite}}. For easier use of this template activate special button cite . Anytime, you click on it, you will see a new window, where you can choose, what you want to cite, then just fill items like author, title, ISBN, ... and create citation. It's easy!

If you can not see the button in your edit window, you have to activate it too:

• Go to My preferences,
• press the tab Gadgets,
• section User interface,
• click on Edit button and tool "Citation" for easier making citations
• and Save changes.