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==References==
It is acceptable to write from experience, but material should be supported by reliable external sources whenever it is likely that such exists for the topic of a sentence or section. Such external sources should, where available, be secondary ones such as textbooks and reviews rather than primary studies.
In wiki code, it is recommended to add references by within <nowiki><ref> and </ref></nowiki> tags, in addition to adding {{tl|reflist}} at the bottom of the article. Such <nowiki><ref></nowiki> tags can be automatically generated from the doi codes, PMID or PMCID of articles at this site:
*[http://sumsearch.org/cite/ http://sumsearch.org/cite/]
For example, entering 10.1038/438900a at that page yields the following text:
*<nowiki><ref name="pmid16355180">{{cite journal| author=Giles J| title=Internet encyclopaedias go head to head. | journal=Nature | year= 2005 | volume= 438 | issue= 7070 | pages= 900-1 | pmid=16355180 | doi=10.1038/438900a | pmc= | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=16355180 }} </ref></nowiki>
When inserted in an article, it gives the following at the bottom:
*{{cite journal| author=Giles J| title=Internet encyclopaedias go head to head. | journal=Nature | year= 2005 | volume= 438 | issue= 7070 | pages= 900-1 | pmid=16355180 | doi=10.1038/438900a | pmc= | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=16355180 }}
Dubious or insufficiently referenced texts should be corrected, removed, or marked with inline cleanup tags, such as:
