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Encyclopedic overview
{{[[Template:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]]}} is designed to be used to create shortened footnotes, a citation style which pairs a short, author-date citation in a footnote with a complete citation in the references section at the end of the article (see example below). This citation style is used to reduce clutter in the edit window and to combine multiple citations to the same source.
Common problems and known workarounds are given in the possible issues section below.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Template:Harvard citation documentation” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.