Template:Refbegin/doc

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Note:If hanging indentations (|indent=) is used, you may see malformed lists where list items are preceded by an asterisk (*). To fix this, replace all instances of the asterisk in your reference list with the indent (:) character.

{{refbegin}} and its complementary closing template {{refend}} are used to apply any of several optional styles or presentational choices for bibliographies or reference lists—that is, lists of fully-specified references / sources / works cited, alpha-sorted by author/contributor) that appear in Wikipedia articles.

These bibliographies or reference lists appear in a dedicated section within an article:

==References==

The formatting options provided by this template are:

refbegin template options/parameters

Option	How to get it	Notes
font size reduction	{{refbegin}}	no parameters needed, default will reduce to 90% of standard browser text size
display list in multiple columns	{{refbegin|n}}	where n determines the number of columns, or width of columns based on the browser's screen width
apply hanging indent	{{refbegin|indent=yes}}	will apply hanging indent if an individual reference wraps over more than one line in the browser's display window

Each use of {{refbegin}} whether with or without parameters, needs an accompanying {{refend}} closing template to 'turn off' the formatting; refend does not need any parameters.

Font size reduction is always applied. Either one, the other, or both of multi-columns and hanging indent may be applied as well (though see specifics and caveats on browser differences in relevant sections, below).

When used, each occurrence of {{refbegin}} should always be paired with a corresponding closing {{refend}} template:

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{refbegin}}
*1st entry in the bibliography/references list.. 
*2nd entry in the bibliography/references list.. 
...
*last entry in the bibliography/references list.. 

{{refend}}