Adding references can be easy Hello Here s how to add references from reliable sources for the content you add to Wikipedia This helps maintain the Wikipedia policy of verifiability Adding well formatted references is actually quite easy While editing any article or a wikipage on the top of the edit window you will see a toolbar which says Cite Click on it Then click on Templates Choose the most appropriate template and fill in as many details as you can This will add a well formatted reference that is helpful in case the website link web URL becomes inactive dead link rot at some point Click on Preview when you re done filling out the Cite web news book journal to make sure that the reference is correct Click on Insert to insert the reference into your editing window content Click on Show preview to Preview all your editing changes Click on Save page and you ve just added a complete reference to a Wikipedia article You can read more about this on Help Edit toolbar or see this video File RefTools ogv Hope this helps To use this message place subst on User talk pages when needed