The Cite extension to MediaWiki provides a way for wiki editors to add references and footnotes to articles.

See mw:Extension:Cite for technical documentation on installing and configuring the extension. See mw:Help:Cite for user documentation.

Cite is responsible for implementing the <ref> and <references> tags in wikitext. Integrations are provided for the legacy wikitext parser, Parsoid, WikiEditor, VisualEditor, and the reading interface.