Template:Citation/core
About this template
Template:Citation/core can be thought of as an engine producing consistent output for Wikipedia's citations. Templates such as Template:Tl 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
- Template:Cite arXiv
Parameter details
Note that the examples below are common uses of each parameter, intended to help editors understand the functioning of this template. In the most part, there is nothing wrong with passing different data to any of the parameters below if it produces the output that is desired. The exception is in parameters which are associated with a COinS field.
- Template:Para date when the Template:Para was accessed.
- Template:Para depreciated in favour of OriginalURL & ArchiveDate.
Archive
should contain 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 Template:Para may therefore end up being the URL of the source, or the URL of the archive copy, as determined by the calling template. - Template:Para Date of the archived URL
- Template:Para If an archived URL is provided elsewhere, the original URL should be specified here.
- Template:Para page reference within the source.
- Template:Para title of an existing Wikipedia article about the first author.
- Template:Para, Template:Para, ..., Template:Para title of an existing Wikipedia article about up to eight additional authors.
- Template:Para A Bibcode id
- Template:Para Digital object identifier.
- Template:Para date of the authorship, if different from date of publication.
- Template:Para Date the DOI is broken
- Template:Para number or name of the edition, if not the first; for example: Template:Para
- Template:Para first editor's first or given name(s).
- Template:Para, Template:Para, Template:Para second, third, and fourth editors' first or given name(s).
- Template:Para first editor's surname or last name.
- Template:Para, Template:Para, Template:Para second, third, and fourth editor' surname or last name.
- Template:Para title of an existing Wikipedia article about the first editor.
- Template:Para, Template:Para, Template:Para title of an existing Wikipedia article about the second, third, and fourth editor.
- Template:Para file format of the source, if not the common format. Or; "Free full text", "abstract", or similar descriptor
- Template:Para first author's first or given name(s).
- Template:Para, Template:Para, ..., Template:Para up to eight additional authors' first or given name(s).
- Template:Para miscellaneous identifier, other than Template:Para, Template:Para, Template:Para, Template:Para, Template:Para, or Template:Para.
- Template:Para International Standard Book Number.
- Template:Para International Standard Serial Number identifying the periodical.
- Template:Para Specific title, to be displayed in quotation marks. Contrast with Template:Para, which is displayed in italics. In some cases (e.g. Template:Cite web) it may be desirable to use IncludedWorkTitle for the title, and not use the Title parameter at all.
- Template:Para URL of the contribution or chapter, or other included work.
- Template:Para issue number of the periodical.
- Template:Para specifies the language in which the source is written, if not English.
- Template:Para Date of a lay summary
- Template:Para Summary of the source in a layman-friendly journal - for instance a BBC news article about a paper in Nature.
- Template:ParaOnline Computer Library Center ID number.
- Template:Para Other details to be inserted in a particular place
- Template:Para PubMed Central article number for full-text free repository of an article.
- Template:Para PubMed Unique Identifier.
- Template:Para 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, journal, magazine, or other serial publication.
- Template:Para place where the item was created.
- Template:Para date of publication.
- Template:Para city of publication.
- Template:Para name of the publisher.
- Template:Para text to be quoted from the source.
- Template:Para A reference name - if the citation is referred to using the Havard referencing suite of templates (LINK!)
- Template:Para specifies the punctuation mark used to separate fields. This usually defaults to a period, but may occasionally be a comma.
- Template:Para series of which this periodical is a part.
- Template:Para first author's surname or last name.
- Template:Para, Template:Para, ..., Template:Para up to eight additional authors' surname or last name.
- Template:Para Title, to be displayed in italics after Template:Para. Used, for example, when citing the title of a book; the chapter title would be passed to IncludedWorkTitle
- Template:Para Uniform Resource Locator of an online location where the article can be found.
- Template:Para volume number of a multi-volume book or compilation.
- Template:Para Note to accompany the year. Example: First published 1886
- Template:Para year of authorship or publication.