StarCraft Wiki:Referencing

It is imperative that articles be comprehensively sourced from canon sources.

Methods of Referencing
There is no set-in-stone requirements for how to reference, but generally you want to include as much information as possible in the reference.

Books
You would reference a novel as follows:



the first time you use it in an article and each additional time you would reference it this way:



Note that slash; that is very important.

This would put a small superscript number (such as [1]) right after the referenced information. Clicking on the number will take the reader to the actual reference, which would appear on the bottom of the screen. The same number appears each time the same reference is repeated.

You can find a list of commonly references book sources at the citation index.

Web Page
You would reference an online source this way:



and each additional time you would reference it this way:



Quotations as References
You can (and should) use quotes from the game as references. Unfortunately the process is a bit complicated; as a result, these quotes haven't been used enough. For now, they are stored at User:PsiSeveredHead/Script. They'll be added to the relevant articles over time.



It ends up looking like this:


 * Jim Raynor: "I'll see you dead for this, Kerrigan. For Fenix and all the others who got caught between you and your mad quest for power!" Kerrigan: "Tough talk, Jimmy. But I don't think you have what it takes to be a killer." Jim Raynor: "It may not be tomorrow, darlin'. It may not even happen with an army at my back. But rest assured: I'm the man who's going to kill you some day. I'll be seein' you." StarCraft: Brood War. Vivendi Games. Level/area: True Colors (in English). 1998.

This one is complicated, as it involves two characters exchanging views. Be sure to use  to separate the sentences, and begin each sentence with the appropriate character's name, in bold.

In addition, in-between mission text (and epilogue text) can be used in a similar manner.



It ends up looking like this:


 * And alone, floating on a dark platform above the burnt-out planet of Char, Sarah Kerrigan, the Queen of Blades, sat and lorded over the ravenous Swarms. Unable to shake the feeling that a great threat loomed just over the horizon, Kerrigan could only stare off into the vastness of space where she beheld a great void. Or perhaps a reflection of a hollow victory and of the trials yet to come... StarCraft: Brood War. Vivendi Games. Level/area: Epilogue (in English). 1998.

Just One Source
Some articles are taken entirely (or almost entirely) from one source. For instance, all the information we have on Somo Hung, the main character from StarCraft: Uprising, comes from that novel, so you could just reference the page as follows:


 * ==References==  Neilson, Micky. StarCraft: Uprising. New York and Toronto, Ontario: Pocket Books, 2000. ISBN 0-7434-1898-0 (eBook only)

You do this instead of using the tags.

Another example is Michael Liberty; at present virtually all information on him comes from StarCraft: Liberty's Crusade (so that reference would simply be put on the bottom of the page) but information from other sources should be referenced the "usual" way (with the tags).