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Zotero is a free and open-source program that can facilitate adding references to Wikipedia articles. This essay will walk you through installing and setting up Zotero, generating citation information, and inserting it into a Wikipedia article. For general information on creating references and citing sources on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Citing sources.
Adding sources via visual editor also uses Zotero, see the help page for visual editor, and Citoid.