Is there an automatic way to create an academic citation or a BibTeX record from a Wikipedia article? (Similar to the "cite" link in StackExchange.)
Citing a Wikipedia article
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Best Answer
In the sidebar, under Tools, is a link to Cite this page. Click this link. (You can also get there by going to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ACite and entering the name of the page you want.)
Under the warning about using tertiary sources in your academic papers and a general disclaimer that it is a community-edited resource is a set of citations. Currently, the supported formats are:
When you click the link it specifically references the most recent revision of the article. If you want to cite an earlier version you'll need to go to the article's history.