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== When to use ==

This template indicates that the article uses many improperly formatted or non-formatted inline citations that require large-scale conversion to an [[WP:INLINECITE|accepted form of inline citation]].

== How to use ==

To add this template to an article, copy and paste:
* {{tlx|{{PAGENAME}}|<nowiki>{{subst:DATE}}</nowiki>}}
:or
* {{tlx|{{PAGENAME}}|date{{=}}{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}}}

Both options result in the same output.

* This template will add the page to [[:Category:Articles needing footnote reformatting]] and [[:Category:Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify]].
* A [[WP:BOT|bot]] will add the date for you at a later time if you forgot.

== Examples ==

A standard, correct way of formatting the following citations (with some acceptable variations as described at [[Wikipedia:Citing sources]]) would be:

<blockquote>{{em|Correct}}: {{xt|Australia has a government.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.australia.gov.au/ |title=Australian Government |author=Australian Government Press Agency |date=25 November 2009 |accessdate=25 November 2009}}</ref>}}

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</blockquote>

The following are examples of improperly formatted or non-formatted inline citations. This template is appropriate for articles that contain many such citations, therefore requiring large-scale conversion.

=== Embedded link ===

<blockquote>{{em|Incorrect}}: {{!xt|Australia has a government [http://www.australia.gov.au/ Australian Government].}}</blockquote>

or:

<blockquote>{{em|Incorrect}}: {{!xt|Australia has a government.[http://www.australia.gov.au/]}}</blockquote>

=== Manual number ===

<blockquote>{{em|Incorrect}}: {{!xt|Australia has a government<sup>see footnote 1</sup>}}</blockquote>

=== Parenthetical reference ===

Inline [[Wikipedia:Parenthetical referencing|parenthetical referencing]] was a previously accepted citation system that is now [[Deprecation|deprecated]] per [[WP:PARREF]]. The recommendation is to convert inline parenthetical references to [[Help:Shortened footnotes|shortened footnotes]] (as depicted below) or [[Help:Footnotes|regular footnotes]] (as depicted in the first example above) or [[Help:List-defined references|footnotes with list-defined references]].

<blockquote>{{em|Incorrect}}: {{!xt|Australia has a government (Australian Government Press Agency, 2009).}}</blockquote>
<blockquote>{{em|Correct}}: {{xt|Australia has a government.{{sfn |Davidson |Court |2011 |p=1}}}}

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::;Sources
::*{{cite book |last=Davidson |first=Hazel |last2=Court |first2=Dorothy |title=Australian Government  |publication-place=Chapel Hill, Qld |publisher=Sugarbag on Damper |year=2011 |isbn=9780975759387  |oclc=697121237}}

</blockquote>

== See also ==
* [[Help:Footnotes]]
* [[Help:List-defined references]]
* [[Help:Shortened footnotes]]
* [[Wikipedia:Citing sources]]
* [[Wikipedia:Citing sources/Example edits for different methods]]
* [[Wikipedia:Citation templates]]
* [[Wikipedia:Template index/Cleanup]]

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