Please note! See the notes section for information on how to create notes (footnotes, endnotes) and the links section for information on including hyperlinks. Authors will include notes and links in the article body using special markup--not as separate, attached lists.
Various reference lists can be associated with articles. These lists should be compiled according to the applicable guidelines in The Chicago Manual of Style and any other category editor-specified guidelines. The article's author should compile all these lists with the advice of the relevant review group(s). As a rule, any of these reference lists that fail to be exhaustive should constitute a balanced, unbiased attempt to represent the variety of works, style, etc., in question.
All items on these reference lists may include some useful annotation. These can be judgmental but only insofar as they express extremely common or universal views; it's best, as usual, to say things that are both informative and uncontroversial, whenever possible. Annotations are not required.
A section titled "For Further Reading" should be associated with every (or nearly every) Nupedia article. This is in its own text box, not part of the article text itself. "For Further Reading" is neither a bibliography nor a list of works cited. The purposes of the "further reading" section are to give readers credible sources of introductory reading and to make a record of the most important, influential, etc., works on the subject in question. Brief reading lists should be associated with brief articles and longer lists with longer articles. Works cited or crucially used in the preparation of an article should be noted in notes. It is helpful to give a sentence or two of descriptive comments after each article (see existing articles for examples). Please, if you have it on hand, consult the Chicago Manual of Style and make sure the works are listed according to the standards in that reference.
For biographical entries and other entries as appropriate, lists of works--for example, musical compositions, novels, best-known works of art by the subject of a biography--are also permitted and encouraged, but of course not required in every case. They are required for famous writers and thinkers. In any case, the briefer articles should have briefer lists of works--around five to eight items as a rough upper limit. The lists attached to longer articles can be of any length.
Articles about music may include discographies. A separate text box has been included in the system for this purpose.