Template:Citation/core

 

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About this template

Template:Citation/core can be thought of as an engine producing consistent output for Wikipedia's citations. Templates such as {{citation}} provide this core template with a list of parameters, which it uses to produce a formatted text (HTML) output, which contains embedded COinS metadata. This metadata allows many readers to find cited references more easily, or to extract their details to a reference manager.

The presence of a central template makes individual citation templates simpler to code and amend, and produces a consistent look throughout the encyclopaedia.

Templates using this 'engine'

Changes to this central template can affect the output of several 'upstream' templates. A list of templates using citation/core is provided below for testing purposes.

• Template:Citation
• Template:Cite book
• Template:Cite journal
• Template:Cite web
• Template:Cite encyclopedia
• Template:Cite mailing list
• Template:Cite news

Parameter details

• |AccessDate= date when the |URL= was accessed.
• |Archive= details of an archived copy of the source; the calling template will pass on a string such as "archived from the original on 02-02-2002". The URL passed as |IncludedWorkURL= may therefore end up being the URL of the source, or the URL of the archive copy, as determined by the calling template.
• |At= page reference within the source.
• |Authorlink1= title of an existing Wikipedia article about the first author.
• |Authorlink2=, |Authorlink3=, ..., |Authorlink9= title of an existing Wikipedia article about up to eight additional authors.
• |Bibcode= A Bibcode id
• |DOI= Digital object identifier.
• |Date= date of the authorship, if different from date of publication.
• |DoiBroken= Date the DOI is broken
• |Edition= number or name of the edition, if not the first; for example: |Edition=2nd.
• |EditorGiven1= first editor's first or given name(s).
• |EditorGiven2=, |EditorGiven3=, |EditorGiven4= second, third, and fourth editors' first or given name(s).
• |EditorSurname1= first editor's surname or last name.
• |EditorSurname2=, |EditorSurname3=, |EditorSurname4= second, third, and fourth editor' surname or last name.
• |Editorlink1= title of an existing Wikipedia article about the first editor.
• |Editorlink2=, |Editorlink3=, |Editorlink4= title of an existing Wikipedia article about the second, third, and fourth editor.
• |format= file format of the source, if not the common format.
• |Given1= first author's first or given name(s).
• |Given2=, |Given3=, ..., |Given9= up to eight additional authors' first or given name(s).
• |ID= miscellaneous identifier, other than |DOI=, |ISBN=, |ISSN=, |OCLC=, |PMID=, or |PMC=.
• |ISBN= International Standard Book Number.
• |ISSN= International Standard Serial Number identifying the periodical.
• |IncludedWorkTitle= title of the contribution, chapter, or other included work.
• |IncludedWorkURL= URL of the contribution or chapter, or other included work.
• |Issue= issue number of the periodical.
• |language= specifies the language in which the source is written, if not English.
• |laydate= Date of a lay summary
• |laysummary= Summary of the source in a layman-friendly journal - for instance a BBC news article about a paper in Nature.
• |OCLC=Online Computer Library Center ID number.
• |Other= Other details to be inserted in a particular place
• |PMC= PubMed Central article number for full-text free repository of an article.
• |PMID= PubMed Unique Identifier.
• |Periodical= name of the periodical, journal, or magazine. This parameter controls whether or not the template will generate a citation in the style appropriate to a periodical, jorunal, magazine, or other serial publication.
• |Place= place where the item was created.
• |PublicationDate= date of publication.
• |PublicationPlace= city of publication.
• |Publisher= name of the publisher.
• |quote= text to be quoted from the source.
• |Ref= A reference name - if the citation is referred to using the Havard referencing suite of templates (LINK!)
• |Sep= specifies the punctuation mark used to separate fields. This usually defaults to a period, but may occasionally be a comma.
• |Series= series of which this periodical is a part.
• |Surname1= first author's surname or last name.
• |Surname2=, |Surname3=, ..., |Surname9= up to eight additional authors' surname or last name.
• |Title= title of the article in the periodical.
• |URL= Uniform Resource Locator of an online location where the article can be found.
• |Volume= volume number of a multi-volume book or compilation.
• |YearNote= Note to accompany the year. Example: First published 1886
• |Year= year of authorship or publication.