As of September 2009, references may be defined within {{Reflist}} using |refs= and invoked within the content. There are new error messages associated with this update, documented at Help:Cite errors. As usual, groups can be used. Defined references must be used within the body; unused references will show an error message.

Example

This is reference 1.<ref name="refname1" group="groupname" />This is reference 2.<ref name="refname2" group="groupname" />This is reference 3.<ref name="refname3" group="groupname" />{{Reflist|group="groupname"|refs=<ref name="refname1" group="groupname">content1</ref><ref name="refname2" group="groupname">content2</ref><ref name="refname3" group="groupname">content3</ref>}}

Result

This is reference 1.[groupname 1]This is reference 2.[groupname 2]This is reference 3.[groupname 3]