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Ricky J
Ricky J • 7 December 2021 • User blog:Ricky J

Sample Citations (Raw)[]

Stuff given in single brackets, i.e. {}, are to be replaced with relevant info.

Internal[]

Notes (generic):[1]

  • <ref name="{Note Title} {Subject of Note, if necessary/helpful}">[[Link#Subsection|''{Note Title}'']] ({Source Game}) {{en}} "{Specific cited text, if any.}"</ref>

Notes ("Cylinders"):[2]

  • <ref name="Cylinder {Cylinder Title} {Subject of Note, if necessary/helpful}">[[Link#Subsection|Cylinder: ''{Cylinder Title}'']] ({Source Game}) {{en}} "{Specific cited text, if any.}"</ref>

Notes (Memory Capsules):[3]

  • <ref name="Memory Capsule {Capsule Title/Location} {Subject of Note, if necessary/helpful}">Memory Capsule:[[Link#Subsection|''{Capsule Title}'']] ({Source Game}) {{en}} "{Specific cited text, if any.}"</ref>

Notes (Daniel's Diary entries):[4]

  • <ref name="Diary {Non-Date Title of Entry} {Subject, if necessary/helpful}">Daniel's Diary: [[Link#Subsection|''{Entry Date}'']] ({Source Game}) {{en}} "{Specific cited text, if any.}"</ref>

Notes (Hank's Dossier):[5]

  • <ref name="Hank's Dossier {Hank's Note Title} {Subject, if necessary/helpful}">Hank's Dossier: [[Link#Subsection|''{Hank's Note Title}'']] ({Source Game}) {{en}} "{Specific cited text, if any.}"</ref>

Mementos/Journal Entries:[6]

  • <ref name="Memento/Journal {Location, if necessary/helpful} {Subject, if necessary/helpful}">Memento: [[Link#Subsection|"{Location/Title}"]] ({Source Game})</ref>
Note: Citing specific Memento text should be unnecessary, as they are too short to require elucidation. Mandus's Journal text, however, may require quotation, depending on circumstances.

Loading Screen blurbs:[7]

  • <ref name="Loading Screen {Location} {Subject, if necessary/helpful}">Loading Screen: [[Link#Subsection|''Title'' OR "First few words of the loading screen text..."]] ({Source Game})</ref>

Flashbacks:[8]

  • <ref name="Flashback {Flashback Title} {Subject, if necessary/helpful}">Flashback: [[Link#Subsection|"{Flashback Title}"]] ({Source Game}) {{en}} "{Specific cited flashback text, if any.}"</ref>

Phonographs:[9]

  • <ref name="Phonograph {Phonograph Title} {Subject}">Phonograph: [[Link#Subsection|''{Phonograph Title}'']] ({Source Game}) {{en}} "{Specific cited phonograph dialogue, if any.}"</ref>

Dialogue:[10]

  • <ref name="Dialogue {Character speaking} {Dialogue Title, if any} {Subject, if necessary}">[[Link#Subsection|Dialogue]] ({Source Game}) {{en}} {Character speaking}: "{Specific cited dialogue, if any.}"</ref>

Short Story Text:[11]

  • <ref name="{Short Story Title} {Subject}">''Remember'': [[Link#Subsection|{Story Title}]] {{en}} "{Specific cited text, if any.}"</ref>

Credits:[12]

  • <ref name="{Game} Credits {Abbrev. Language of Credits} {Subject, if necessary/helpful}">[[{Game}/Credits#subsection|''{Game}'' {{en}} {Language of Credits} credits]]: "{Specific cited credits, if any.}"</ref>

Game Endings:[13]

  • <ref name="{Game} Ending {Name of Ending}">[[Link#subsection|''{Game}''/Endings {{en}} "{Name of Ending} Ending"]]</ref>

Developer Commentary files:[14]

  • <ref name="{Author} {Location/File Title} {Subject, if necessary}">Developer Commentary: [[Link#subsection|"{File Title}"]]. {Surname}, {Given name}. ''{Game}'', V{version number}, {Game Publisher}, {Publication Date}, "{File Address}".</ref>

External[]

Wikipedia:[15]

  • <ref name="Wikipedia {Article Title} {Subsection, if cited} {Subject, if necessary}">"{Article Title}". Accessed {day} {full month} {year}. Last revised {day} {full month} {year}. ''Wikipedia'', Wikimedia Foundation. {full url}.</ref>

Wiktionary:[16]

  • <ref name="Wiktionary {Article Title} {Language, if cited}">"{Article Title} [{Language, if cited}]". Accessed {day} {full month} {year}. Last revised {day} {full month} {year}. ''Wiktionary'', Wikimedia Foundation. {full url}.</ref>

Other online dictionary:[17]

  • <ref name="{Dictionary Title} {Article Title} {Language, if cited}">"{Article Title} [{Language, if cited}]". Accessed {day} {full month} {year}. Published {day} {full month} {year}. ''{Dictionary Site Title}'' [Website], {Publisher/Site Title}. {full url}.</ref>

Dissertation or Thesis:[18]

  • <ref name="{Author} Thesis/Dissertation {Additional terms, if necessary}">{Work Author surname}, {Work Author first initial, if known}. "{Work Title}". Accessed {day} {full month} {year}. Published {day} {full month} {year}. ''{Associated Institution/University}'', {Type of work (e.g. doctoral dissertation)}. Via ''{Publication/Forum Title}'', {Publisher/Site Title}. {full url}.</ref>

Tweets:[19]

  • <ref name="Twitter {Subject, as appropriate}">"{Full or relevant text of the tweet(s)}". ''{Account name at retrieval}'', @{account handle at retrieval}. Accessed {day} {full month} {year}. Published {day} {full month} {year}. Twitter. {full url}.</ref>

YouTube videos:[20]

  • <ref name="YouTube {Channel Title} {Video Title, as appropriate} {Subject, as appropriate}">"{Full video title}" [Video]. Accessed {day} {full month} {year}. Published {day} {full month} {year}. ''{Channel name at retrieval}'', YouTube. {full url}.</ref>

Other web-sourced videos:

  • <ref name="Video {Video Hosting Site} {Video Title, as appropriate} {Subject, as appropriate}">"{Full video title}" [Video]. Accessed {day} {full month} {year}. Published {day} {full month} {year}. ''{Uploader/Channel name at retrieval}'', {Video Hosting Site Title}. {full url}.</ref>

Web-sourced photographs:

  • <ref name="Photograph {Photographer surname, as appropriate} {Subject, as appropriate}">{Photographer surname}, {Photographer's first initial, if known}. "{Title of Photograph} ({Location of Photograph})" [Photograph]. Accessed {day} {full month} {year}. Taken {day} {full month} {year}. Published {day} {full month} {year}. ''{Publication/Forum Title}'', {Publisher/Site Title}. {full url}.</ref>

Wiki Commons photographs:[21]

  • <ref name="Photograph {Photographer surname, as appropriate} {Subject, as appropriate}">{Photographer surname}, {Photographer's first initial, if known}. "{Title of Photograph} ({Location of Photograph})" [Photograph]. Accessed {day} {full month} {year}. Taken {day} {full month} {year}. Last revised {day} {full month} {year}. ''Wikimedia Commons'', Wikimedia Foundation Inc. {full url}.</ref>

Other external online sources:[22]

  • <ref name="{Publisher} {Short Title} {Additional terms, if necessary}">{Work Author surname}, {Work Author first initial, if known}. "{Work Title}". Accessed {day} {full month} {year}. Last revised/Published {day} {full month} {year}. ''{Publication/Forum Title}'', {Publisher/Site Title}. {full url}.</ref>

Other external offline sources:

  • <ref name="{Work Title} {Subsection, if any} {Publication Date} {Page number} {Additional terms, if necessary}">{Work Author surname}, {Work Author first initial, if known}. ''{Work Title}''. Published {day} {full month} {year}. {Publisher City, if known}: ''{Publication Title}'', {Publisher Title}.</ref>

Sample Citations (Visual)[]

  1. ↑ November 23rd 1899 (AMP)
  2. ↑ Cylinder: The Fall (Rebirth) – "I was the traitor Kita, alchemist, apprentice to Temaku."
  3. ↑ Memory Capsule: Laboratory (TDD) – "I weep for them, they lust for power without restraint, where I only crave fair judgment and a safe return."
  4. ↑ Daniel's Diary: 17 May 1839 (TDD) – "The crudely carved passage confused me. It looked much older than the 4th century structure we had expected."
  5. ↑ Hank's Dossier: Leon De Vries (Rebirth) – "But Phoebe (ex M&W) says she wouldn't invite him to dinner."
  6. ↑ Memento: "Rainy Hall" (TDD) – "Follow the liquid trail and find its source."
  7. ↑ Loading Screen: The Collar, The Neck, The Noose (AMP) – "From the window, he could see almost to the docks, where they were still pulling hair out of the gratings."
  8. ↑ Flashback: "James Henry Mitchell" (Rebirth) – "Goddamn, I do miss the old man."
  9. ↑ Phonograph: Basile (Justine) – Justine: "Speak into the phonograph, Basile, mon chéri."
  10. ↑ Dialogue (TDD) – Agrippa: "Not many orbs are left. They sometimes consume themselves or break when used by an uninitiated."
  11. ↑ Remember: With the Blessing of a King – "Ambroise tossed a stone onto the map. The gilded table below resonated with a clang. Herbert looked around with a slight panic and then down on the map and the star-shaped stone."
  12. ↑ Amnesia: The Dark Descent – English credits: "Sam Mowry as Alexander"
  13. ↑ Amnesia: The Dark Descent/Endings – "Agrippa's Ending"
  14. ↑ Developer Commentary: "00_thomas_raint_hall.ogg". Grip, Thomas. Amnesia: The Dark Descent, V1.4, Frictional Games, c. 2010, "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Amnesia The Dark Descent\commentary\00_thomas_raint_hall.ogg".
  15. ↑ "Alexander the Great". Accessed 1 May 2020. Last revised 1 April 2020. Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great.
  16. ↑ "Radix [Latin]". Accessed 8 August 2022. Last revised 3 July 2022. Wiktionary, Wikimedia Foundation. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/radix#Latin.
  17. ↑ "weaver". Accessed 10 October 2024. Merriam-Webster Dictionary [Website], Merriam-Webster, Inc. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/weaver.
  18. ↑ Howell, P. "Disruptive Game Design: A Commercial Design and Development Methodology for Supporting Player Cognitive Engagement in Digital Games" [PDF]. Accessed 10 October 2024. Published December 2015. University of Portsmouth, doctoral thesis. Via University of Portsmouth Research Portal, Elsevier BV. https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/files/3364888/PeterHowell_PhD.pdf.
  19. ↑ "Fun fact: This video was the main inspiration for The Shadow's slime in Amnesia: TDD". frictionalgames, @frictionalgames. Accessed 1 May 2020. Published Jun 2, 2017. Twitter. https://twitter.com/frictionalgames/status/870540115969552384.
  20. ↑ "ARTV: Handguns of World War I, Part 3" [Video]. Accessed 2 July 2023. Published 25 August 2016. NRApubs, YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vgr7gcT5Fw.
  21. ↑ van Beem, A. "Revolver Modele 1892, 8mm 6 rounds (Musée Somme 1916, France)" [Photograph]. Accessed 2 July 2023. Taken 4 September 2013. Last revised {day} {full month} {year}. Wikimedia Commons, Wikimedia Foundation Inc. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Revolver_Modele_1892,_8mm_6_rounds,_Mus%C3%A9e_Somme_1916,_pic-034.JPG.
  22. ↑ "William Smith". Accessed 7 December 2021. Published 24 Aug 2021. Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Smith-British-geologist.

Useful Abbreviations[]

Languages[]

  • ENG/EN = English
  • RUS/RU = Russian
  • ESP/ES = Spanish

Games[]

  • TDD = The Dark Descent
  • JUS = Justine
  • AMP/AMfP = A Machine for Pigs
  • REB/Rb = Rebirth
  • BNK/Bn = The Bunker
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