Template:Broken footnote

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Usage

To be used to flag broken footnotes with {{broken footnote}}. For instance

This is a sentence with a working footnote. This is another sentence, this one with a broken footnote. This is a third sentence, again with a broken footnote.

Footnotes

Bibliography

• Smith, John (2008). Book of Stuff. Foobar.
• Smith, John; Hunter, Sally (2010). Another Book of Stuff. Foobar.

The cause of the issue can be varies. Often times, it will be due to

• The authors or year are missing/mismatched, or the footnote template is wrongly used. For example, {{sfn|Smith & Hunter (2010)|p=12}} should (in most cases) be {{sfn|Smith|Hunter|2010|p=12}}. The exact syntax varies with the templates used, so some investigation might be required.
• The full citation is completely missing

See also

• User:Trappist the monk/HarvErrors.js – a user script which detects several classes of Harvard citation errors. It will, however, throw additional warnings, which are not errors.

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