References must be reliable sources  such as newspapers books or trustworthy websites like BBC CNN News  For how see below    How references work   Simple references   These require two parts  a  Chzz is  years old The book of Chzz Aardvark Books    He likes tea  httpwwwnicecupofteaandasitdowncom Tea website    b A section called References with the special code reflist   References  reflist   an existing article is likely to already have one of these sections  To see the result of that please look at  Edit it and check the code perhaps make a test page of your own such as  and try it out   Named references    Chzz was born in   The book of Chzz Aardvark Books      Chzz lives in Footown    Note that the second usage has a  and no closing ref tag This needs a reference section as above please see  to see the result   Citation templates   You can put anything you like between  and  but using citation templates makes for a neat consistent look   Chzz has  Olympic medals  Citation   last  Smith   first  John   title  Olympic medal winners of the th century   publicationdate     publisher  Cambridge University Press   page     isbn       Please see  to see the result  For more help and tips on that subject see