Template:Reflist

Use {{reflist}} instead of <references/> to create multi-column footnote lists for heavily cited articles.
You can see the 2-column footnote layout at the bottom of this article!

This template and the exerpted documentation below are lifted from based on the Wikimedia template [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Template:Reflist|{{#if:{{reflist}}|{{reflist}}|Template:Reflist}}]]. Both have 1:1 correlation with the originating Wikimedia template as of the July 9 2007 revision. Don't expect that to last, even at maturity the originating template is receiving ~1 minor tweak per month. However, it is unlikely to see fundamental revision (and require re-porting) until [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Cascading Style Sheets|{{#if:CSS3|CSS3|Cascading Style Sheets}}]] reaches a [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}tipping point|{{#if:||tipping point}}]].

Usage

Use this template to create a reference list in an article with a small font. Note that there is no consensus that small font size should always for all references; when normal-sized font is more appropriate on an article, use <references /> instead.

If used with no parameters, it will produce a reference list with a single column.

Multiple columns

Using {{reflist|2}} will create a two-column reference list, and {{reflist|3}} will create a three-column list.

Using {{reflist|colwidth=30em}} will allow the browser to automatically choose the number of columns based on the width of the web browser. Choose a column width that's appropriate for the average width of the references on the page.

Note: multiple columns currently render properly only in [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Mozilla Firefox|{{#if:||Mozilla Firefox}}]] and other [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Gecko (layout engine)|{{#if:Gecko|Gecko|Gecko (layout engine)}}]]-based browsers,<ref>CSS3 Multi-Column Thriller</ref> though the feature is included in [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Cascading Style Sheets|{{#if:CSS3|CSS3|Cascading Style Sheets}}]], so it should work for a larger number of browsers in the future.<ref>CSS3 module: Multi-column layout</ref>

References

<references />