 Hi, it's Hannah and this video is going to talk you through how to add citations Now if you come to the home page of Wikipedia English Wikipedia and log in You can see I'm logged in as here's my username blue Rhino So if you come to this home page and click on your username We'll take you to your home user page Now we're going to edit on here to show you how to use citations Now citations are the most important element of any Wikipedia page No page should be on Wikipedia if it cannot be backed up from a high-quality published secondary source You should aim to have a citation at the end of every sentence or at least every paragraph your golden rule for sources That you use should be that they are published They should have a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy Scholarly material is normally fine broad-shoot newspapers University-level textbooks and books from respective publishing houses tabloid and click-bake journalism Should be avoided as it tends to be less reliable blogs are also sometimes less reliable, but blogs from universities or Other type of organizations with an editorial oversight might be all right now. So to add a citation We need to click edit And this takes us to visual editing, but if you want source editing, it's this little button here So we're at visual editing now and I'm going to type a sentence underneath here. So this morning. I read an interesting article about Vincent van Gogh Then this is the article find the citation you're going to use So the place depicted in Vincent van Gogh's final painting was found with the help of a postcard Now to add the citation Go to the site button in the top here and you can see it comes up with automatic manual reuse So you can input it with any of these options URL, DOI, ISBN and so on So ours is a URL And click generate and you can see here it's made up the Citations the name of the article the place where it's from date and date retrieved. So click insert and if you want to edit it say example add an Author or any else anything else you can do that by pressing the edit button, but I think this is good So we're going to save our changes and to do this. We're going to click publish changes Now every time you save your changes you should describe what you've done. So In this box, we're going to put added citation and click publish changes So now you can see Next to the Vincent van Gogh, we've got a little one This takes us to this box here And this takes us to the article. Thanks for watching and I hope that helps