Using Citation Templates in References

Templates are shortcuts for entering or formatting pages. You can find a full list of this site's templates here. The citation templates are especially useful. You pick the right one for a given book, fill in the chapter and page number for the reference, and the template fills in the book's full name, authors, ISBN, and the rest of the info. They're awesome!

They're also a confusing butt-pain to use. Using them in-line isn't that hard, but their real use is in a Reference object (like this ), and it took me a long time to figure out how that's even done. Here's the process. Congrats! You've embedded a reference! And trust me, that's the easy way. :) I'll come back to this page when I figure out how to list references at the bottom of the page.
 * 1) Open the Citation templates category page.
 * 2) In the list of Cite Book templates, find the one for the book you want to refer to. Remember the name as it's spelled here.
 * 3) Start editing the page you want to add references to.
 * 4) Put your cursor where you want the reference to appear.
 * 5) Click Insert\Reference.
 * 6) When the Reference dialog opens, type " {{ " to invoke the Insert Template dialog.
 * 7) This dialog shows a (badly sorted, partial) list of this site's templates. I'm not actually sure how it decides what to show or in what order. That's why you had to go find the name earlier. Enter the name now, for example: Cite Book/Hornsaw for the v.3.5 version of the Hornsaw sourcebook.
 * 8) When the proper template appears in the list, click on it to open its Edit dialog.
 * 9) There are only two fields you need to fill out:
 * 10) Under Chapter, enter the chapter number or name you're referring to.
 * 11) Under 1, enter the page number that contains the relevant info.
 * 12) Click Apply Changes back out to the page you're editing.