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creates an anchor, for use in a "References" section for books, journals, web references, etc. The anchor should be linked-to in the body of the article.  
The reference text may be formatted manually, and the template merely adds an anchor for linking from in-text citations. This template is also useful when using a citation template that does not support the ref parameter (for example, ws).
This template is only needed for handwritten citations, or citations using non-standard citation templates, that are linked to by a shortened footnote or a parenthetical reference. If you don't mind using a citation template, it is more standard to use sfn or harv with a template such as citation, cite book, cite web, etc.
This template is not necessary if the citation uses a citation template (such as cite book). Use the ref parameter of the citation template to create the anchor. This template is also not necessary if the article does not contain a shortened footnote or parenthetical reference that creates a link (e.g. 2003). The anchor serves no purpose if nothing links to it.

**Usage**
Copy-'n'-paste.

or, alternatively (but not equivalentlysee below)

The first parameter is  an alias for reference.  The id or ref parameters are alternative unique identifiers used for the reference link on the page, compatible with some other reference templates. If both id and ref are provided, id is ignored. There are two differences between these:- id automatically prefixes the link anchor with "Reference-", whereas ref does not- id encloses the link anchor in double quotes, so these must not be provided by the editor; but if using ref, the specified content for this parameter must be enclosed in quotes unless it consists entirely of letters, figures, hyphens and periods. If it contains any other character - such as a blank or underscore - it must be quoted. (e.g., a ref anchor of Von Autor-2006 must be specified as "Von Autor-2006")
Thus, these two forms


produce identical results.
The reference parameter is the actual reference text. It may be plain text, formatted text, or one of the citation templates.

**Examples**
Recommended formats.
The parameter reference can be assigned templates as well as text. So if there is a template that is used for citations that does not support the usual Harvnb templates (see Help:CS1 and Help:CS2) the template can be passed into this template via the reference parameter. There is a template called ws that "places a wikisource icon before text". For example:

would look like:
ws|The Waterloo dispatch by the Duke of Wellington (19 June 1815)
However this is only one of several ways this particular text could be cited (see  § Alternatives for more details):
*ws can take a template as a parameter itself, and then the citation can be linked using the standard harv-style footnotes:
:

**Features**
 Compatible with any reference style: editor has 100% control of the format through a technology called editing wikitext
Technical features:- Produces well-formed, accessible, semantically-correct HTML code- Compatible with many other templates' in-text citation links (any id which starts with "Reference-")- Complies with WP:AUM- No conditionals- No CSS hacks

**Alternatives**
Note that identical behavior can be achieved using the more standard Harvnb (or sfn) and Citation
In article body:
In references section:

**See also**
 Citation- Harvnb- Sfn, an alternative method for creating shortened footnotes.- Wikipedia:Citation templates- Wikipedia:Citing sources- Wikipedia:Citing sources/Further considerations#Using Wikicite- T-34#References, example of usage