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After taking a look at Cite.php, it seems to me that it might be (*cough*) A
Small Matter of Programming to allow the <references> element to take a class
attribute. For example,
 <references class="foo bar"/>
would generate <ol class="references foo bar">.

A patch follows. I have not tested it (or even compiled it!). Feel free to
ignore it, laugh at my feeble PHP skills, etc.
 -- Chris Chittleborough
==========================================
--- Cite.php	Fri May 19 17:19:44 2006
+++ Cite.CWC.php	Fri May 19 17:35:50 2006
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@
 
 			// Although I could just use # instead of <li> above and nothing here that
 			// will break on input that contains linebreaks
-			'cite_references_prefix' => '<ol class="references">',
+			'cite_references_prefix' => '<ol class="references $1">',
 			'cite_references_suffix' => '</ol>',
 		)
 	);
@@ -311,12 +311,18 @@
 		 */
 		function references( $str, $argv, $parser ) {
 			$this->mParser = $parser;
+			$classes = '';
+			$cnt = count ( $argv );
+			if ( $cnt == 1 and isset( $argv['class'] ) ) {
+				$classes = ' '. $argv['class'];
+				$cnt = 0;
+			}
 			if ( $str !== null )
 				return $this->error( CITE_ERROR_REFERENCES_INVALID_INPUT );
-			else if ( count( $argv ) )
+			else if ( $cnt > 0 )
 				return $this->error( CITE_ERROR_REFERENCES_INVALID_PARAMETERS );
 			else
-				return $this->referencesFormat();
+				return $this->referencesFormat($classes);
 		}
 
 		/**
@@ -324,13 +330,13 @@
 		 *
 		 * @return string XHTML ready for output
 		 */
-		function referencesFormat() {
+		function referencesFormat( $classes ) {
 			$ent = array();
 			
 			foreach ( $this->mRefs as $k => $v )
 				$ent[] = $this->referencesFormatEntry( $k, $v );
 			
-			$prefix = wfMsgForContentNoTrans( 'cite_references_prefix' );
+			$prefix = wfMsgForContentNoTrans( 'cite_references_prefix', $classes );
 			$suffix = wfMsgForContentNoTrans( 'cite_references_suffix' );
 			$content = implode( "\n", $ent );