Thread:Wikiwalker11291/@comment-6697950-20170103220818

Not sure if you've noticed, but the Reference Guideline also has a section about the process of shortening a reference when it has already been used once on the article. Basically, this allows you to reuse an already existing reference, without having to flood the page with reference coding. This reference reuse is the main reason why we have a standard referencing format - to make it easy to re-use existing references easily. 