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This page, Help:Reftags, explains the use of the reftag element,<ref>...</ref> for defining reference footnotes, as displayed by using a <references /> tag or a {{Reflist}} template to list the footnotes. A reftag can also be defined by using wikitext function {{#tag:ref|...}} to generate the text <ref>...</ref> and allow direct use of subst'ing of templates to embed equivalent markup inside a footnote, or to nest a <ref>...</ref> inside a {{#tag:ref|...}}.