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# Using citations

**Not recommended for the WISE documentation**

Citations are similar to footnotes, but have a label that is not numeric or does not begin with `#`.

When the documentation is built using the Sphinx document generator, the citations are "global", meaning that every citation can be referenced from any `.rst` files. In this case, a separate file may be created (e.g., a `references.rst` file).

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```{code-block} rst
You can find more information in the guidance [GuidanceDoc]_.

.. [GuidanceDoc] EEA (2026). The ultimate Guidance Document. 100pp.
```

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There is no equivalent in Markdown.
See {ref}`heading_using_bibtex_citations` for details on how to use BibTeX citations in Markdown.

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