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{{Cite arXiv}} | arXiv preprint |
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{{Cite AV media}} | audio and visual |
{{Cite AV media notes}} | audio and visual liner notes |
{{Cite book}} | books |
{{Cite conference}} | conference papers |
{{Cite DVD notes}} | DVD liner notes |
{{Cite encyclopedia}} | edited collections |
{{Cite episode}} | radio or television episodes |
{{Cite interview}} | interviews |
{{Cite journal}} | academic journals and papers |
{{Cite magazine}} | magazines, periodicals |
{{Cite mailing list}} | public mailing lists |
{{Cite map}} | maps |
{{Cite news}} | news articles |
{{Cite newsgroup}} | online newsgroups |
{{Cite podcast}} | audio or video podcast |
{{Cite press release}} | press releases |
{{Cite report}} | reports |
{{Cite serial}} | audio or video serials |
{{Cite sign}} | signs, plaques |
{{Cite speech}} | speeches |
{{Cite techreport}} | technical reports |
{{Cite thesis}} | theses |
{{Cite web}} | any resource accessible through a URL |
See also: | |
Meta-templates • Specific-source templates | |
This Citation Style 1 template is used to create citations for academic and scientific papers and journals. For articles in magazines and newsletters, use {{cite magazine}}
.
Usage
Copy a blank version to use. All parameter names must be in lowercase. Use the "|" (pipe) character between each parameter. Delete unused parameters to avoid clutter in the edit window. Some samples may include the current date. If the date is not current, then
the page.
or
|
|
{{cite journal | last = | first = | last2 = | first2 = | date = | title = | url = | journal = | publisher = | volume = | issue = | pages = | bibcode = | doi = | access-date= }}
{{cite journal | vauthors = | date = | title = | url = | journal = | publisher = | volume = | issue = | pages = | doi = | pmc = | pmid = }} or {{cite journal | last = | first = | last2 = | first2 = | date = | title = | url = | journal = | publisher = | volume = | issue = | pages = | doi = | pmc = | pmid = | name-list-format = vanc }}
{{cite journal | last = | first = | date = | title = | url = | journal = | location = | publisher = | access-date= }}
{{cite journal | author = <!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> | title = | url = | journal = | location = | publisher = | date = | access-date= }}
{{cite journal | last = | first = | date = | title = | url = | dead-url = | journal = | location = | publisher = | archive-url = | archive-date= | access-date = }}
{{cite journal | last = | first = | date = | title = | trans-title = | url = | language = | journal = | location = | publisher = | access-date = }}
{{cite journal | last1 = | first1 = | last2 = | first2 = | date = | title = | trans-title = | url = | dead-url = | format = | language = | journal = | location = | publisher = | archive-url = | archive-date = | access-date = | via = | subscription = | quote = }} |
Vertical list | Prerequisites | Brief instructions / notes |
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{{cite journal | last1 = | first1 = | author-link1 = | last2 = | first2 = | author-link2 = | last3 = | first3 = | author-link3 = | last4 = | first4 = | author-link4 = | last5 = | first5 = | author-link5 = | display-authors = | author-mask = | name-list-format = | last-author-amp = | date = | year = | orig-year = | editor1-last = | editor1-first = | editor1-link = | editor2-last = | editor2-first = | editor2-link = | editor3-last = | editor3-first = | editor3-link = | editor4-last = | editor4-first = | editor4-link = | editor5-last = | editor5-first = | editor5-link = | display-editors = | others = | title = | script-title = | trans-title = | url = | dead-url = | format = | department = | journal = | type = | series = | language = | edition = | location = | publisher = | publication-date = | volume = | issue = | page = | pages = | at = | nopp = | arxiv = | asin = | bibcode = | doi = | doi-broken-date = | isbn = | issn = | jfm = | jstor = | lccn = | mr = | oclc = | ol = | osti = | pmc = | pmid = | rfc = | ssrn = | zbl = | id = | archive-url = | archive-date = | access-date = | via = | registration = | subscription = | lay-url = | lay-source = | lay-date = | quote = | postscript = | ref = }} |
last1 last1 last2 last2 last3 last3 last4 last4 last5 editor1-last editor2-last editor2-last editor3-last editor3-last editor4-last editor4-last editor5-last title or script-title title or script-title archive-url url url archive-url url |
|
- If a field name is listed in the Prerequisites column, it is a prerequisite for the field to the left.
Examples
- Formal citation
{{cite journal |last=Smith |first=Joseph III |date=October 1879 |title=Last Testimony of Sister Emma |journal=The Saints' Herald |volume=26 |page=289}}
- Displays as:
- Smith, Joseph III (October 1879). "Last Testimony of Sister Emma". The Saints' Herald. 26: 289.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- Vancouver style (common in biomedicine); see Citation Style Vancouver for specific templates
{{cite journal |vauthors=Bannen R, Suresh V, Phillips GN Jr, Wright S, Mitchell J |date=2008 |title=Optimal design of thermally stable proteins |url=http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/24/20/2339 |journal=Bioinformatics |volume=24 |issue=20 |pages=2339–2343 |doi=10.1093/bioinformatics/btn450 |pmc=2562006 |pmid=18723523 }}
- Displays as:
- Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Identifiers at line 47: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
or
{{cite journal |last=Bannen |first=RM |last2=Suresh |first2=V |last3=Phillips |first3=GN Jr |last4=Wright |first4=SJ |last5=Mitchell |first5=JC |date=2008 |title=Optimal design of thermally stable proteins |url=http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/24/20/2339 |journal=Bioinformatics |volume=24 |issue=20 |pages=2339–2343 |doi=10.1093/bioinformatics/btn450 |pmc=2562006 |pmid=18723523 |name-list-format=vanc }}
- Displays as:
- Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Identifiers at line 47: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Include URL link to free-article, pre-print or abstract.
{{cite journal |last=Aries |first=Myriam B. C. |last2=Newsham |first2=Guy R. |last-author-amp=yes |date=2008 |title=Effect of daylight saving time on lighting energy use: a literature review |url=http://archive.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/obj/irc/doc/pubs/nrcc49212/nrcc49212.pdf |format=PDF |journal=Energy Policy |volume=36 |issue=6 |pages=1858–1866 |doi=10.1016/j.enpol.2007.05.021 |access-date=October 18, 2013}}
- Displays as:
- Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Identifiers at line 47: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Specify the DOI to provide a permanent link. Also give the PMID abstract for medical articles, and the URL if the article is free. PubMed Central free full-text repository links may also be supplied and will link the title if the URL is not specified, else as an additional linked PMC value.
{{cite journal |last=Viollet |first=Benoît |last2=Andreelli |first2=Fabrizio |last3=Jørgensen |first3=Sebastian B. |last4=Perrin |first4=Christophe |last5=Geloen |first5=Alain |last6=Flamez |first6=Daisy |last7=Mu |first7=James |last8=Lenzner |first8=Claudia |last9=Baud |first9=Olivier |last10=Bennoun |first10=Myriam |last11=Gomas |first11=Emmanuel |last12=Nicolas |first12=Gaël |last13=Wojtaszewski |first13=Jørgen F. P. |last14=Kahn1 |first14=Axel |last15=Carling |first15=David |last16=Schuit |first16=Frans C. |last17=Birnbaum |first17=Morris J. |last18=Richter |first18=Erik A. |last19=Burcelin |first19=Rémy |last20=Vaulont |first20=Sophie |display-authors=5 |date=January 2003 |title=The AMP-activated protein kinase α2 catalytic subunit controls whole-body insulin sensitivity |url=http://www.jci.org/articles/view/16567 |journal=The Journal of Clinical Investigation |volume=111 |issue=1 |pages=91–98 |doi=10.1172/JCI16567 |pmc=151837 |pmid=12511592 |access-date=2012-11-17}}
- Displays as:
- Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Identifiers at line 47: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
Whereas if the URL had not been specified, then the title is linked to the PMC link, which is repeated:
{{cite journal |last=Viollet |first=Benoît |last2=Andreelli |first2=Fabrizio |last3=Jørgensen |first3=Sebastian B. |last4=Perrin |first4=Christophe |last5=Geloen |first5=Alain |last6=Flamez |first6=Daisy |last7=Mu |first7=James |last8=Lenzner |first8=Claudia |last9=Baud |first9=Olivier |last10=Bennoun |first10=Myriam |last11=Gomas |first11=Emmanuel |last12=Nicolas |first12=Gaël |last13=Wojtaszewski |first13=Jørgen F. P. |last14=Kahn1 |first14=Axel |last15=Carling |first15=David |last16=Schuit |first16=Frans C. |last17=Birnbaum |first17=Morris J. |last18=Richter |first18=Erik A. |last19=Burcelin |first19=Rémy |last20=Vaulont |first20=Sophie |display-authors=5 |date=January 2003 |title=The AMP-activated protein kinase α2 catalytic subunit controls whole-body insulin sensitivity |journal=The Journal of Clinical Investigation |volume=111 |issue=1 |pages=91–98 |doi=10.1172/JCI16567 |pmc=151837 |pmid=12511592}}
- Displays as:
- Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Identifiers at line 47: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
If the doi link is broken, then use of doi-broken-date unlinks the doi value, indicates when the doi-problem was first noticed, and will also add the page to "Category:Pages with DOIs broken since YYYY":
{{cite journal |last=Viollet |first=Benoît |last2=Andreelli |first2=Fabrizio |last3=Jørgensen |first3=Sebastian B. |last4=Perrin |first4=Christophe |last5=Geloen |first5=Alain |last6=Flamez |first6=Daisy |last7=Mu |first7=James |last8=Lenzner |first8=Claudia |last9=Baud |first9=Olivier |last10=Bennoun |first10=Myriam |last11=Gomas |first11=Emmanuel |last12=Nicolas |first12=Gaël |last13=Wojtaszewski |first13=Jørgen F. P. |last14=Kahn1 |first14=Axel |last15=Carling |first15=David |last16=Schuit |first16=Frans C. |last17=Birnbaum |first17=Morris J. |last18=Richter |first18=Erik A. |last19=Burcelin |first19=Rémy |last20=Vaulont |first20=Sophie |display-authors=5 |date=January 2003 |title=The AMP-activated protein kinase α2 catalytic subunit controls whole-body insulin sensitivity |journal=The Journal of Clinical Investigation |volume=111 |issue=1 |pages=91–98 |doi=10.1172/JCI16567 |doi-broken-date=2015-01-01 |pmc=151837 |pmid=12511592}}
- Displays as:
- Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Identifiers at line 47: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- If the article is in a foreign language, and the original title is unknown
Enclose the translated title in square brackets and use |title=
.
{{cite journal |last=Huang |first=Y. |last2=Lu |first2=J. |last3=Shen |first3=Y. |last4=Lu |first4=J. |last-author-amp=yes |date=March 1999 |title=[The protective effects of total flavonoids from Lycium Barbarum L. on lipid peroxidation of liver mitochondria and red blood cell in rats] |journal=Wei Sheng Yan Jiu |language=Chinese |volume=28 |issue=2 |pages=115–116 |pmid=11938998}}
- Displays as:
- Huang, Y.; Lu, J.; Shen, Y. & Lu, J. (March 1999). "[The protective effects of total flavonoids from Lycium Barbarum L. on lipid peroxidation of liver mitochondria and red blood cell in rats]". Wei Sheng Yan Jiu (in Chinese). 28 (2): 115–116. PMID 11938998.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- Other examples
{{cite journal |last=Smith |first=Joseph III |author-link=Joseph Smith |date=October 1879 |title=Last Testimony of Sister Emma |journal=The Saints' Herald |volume=26 |page=289}}
- Displays as:
- Smith, Joseph III (October 1879). "Last Testimony of Sister Emma". The Saints' Herald. 26: 289.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
{{cite journal |last=Woodin |first=W. Hugh |date=2001 |title=The Continuum Hypothesis, Part I |url=http://www.ams.org/notices/200106/fea-woodin.pdf |format=PDF |journal=Notices of the AMS |location=Providence, Rhode Island, United States |publisher=American Mathematical Society |volume=48 |issue=6 |pages=567–576 |issn=1088-9477 |oclc=34550461}}
- Displays as:
- Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Identifiers at line 47: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
{{cite journal |title=Disney Releases 10 Titles on Laser Videodisc |journal=Videodisc/Videotex |volume=2 |issue=3 |page=175 |date=1982}}
- Displays as:
- "Disney Releases 10 Titles on Laser Videodisc". Videodisc/Videotex. 2 (3): 175. 1982.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
Parameters
Syntax
Nested parameters rely on their parent parameters:
- parent
- OR: parent2—may be used instead of parent
- child—may be used with parent (and is ignored if parent is not used)
- OR: child2—may be used instead of child (and is ignored if parent2 is not used)
- Where aliases are listed, only one of the parameters may be defined; if multiple aliased parameters are defined, then only one will show.
By default, sets of fields are terminated with a period (.).
COinS
This template embeds COinS metadata in the HTML output, allowing reference management software to retrieve bibliographic metadata. As a general rule, only one data item per parameter. Do not include explanatory or alternate text:
- Use
|date=27 September 2007
not|date=27 September 2007 (print version 25 September)
Use of templates within the citation template is discouraged because many of these templates will add extraneous HTML or CSS that will be included raw in the metadata. Also, HTML entities, for example
, –
, etc, should not be used in parameters that contribute to the metadata. Do not include Wiki markup ''
(italic font) or '''
(bold font) because these markup characters will contaminate the metadata.
- COinS metadata is created for these parameters
|periodical=
,|journal=
,|newspaper=
,|magazine=
,|work=
,|website=
,|encyclopedia=
,|encyclopaedia=
,|dictionary=
|chapter=
,|contribution=
,|entry=
,|article=
,|section=
|title=
|publication-place=
,|publicationplace=
,|place=
,|location=
|date=
,|year=
,|publication-date=
,|publicationdate=
|series=
,|version=
|volume=
|issue=
,|number=
|page=
,|pages=
,|at=
|edition=
|publisher=
,|distributor=
,|institution=
|url=
|chapter-url=
,|chapterurl=
,|contribution-url=
,|contributionurl=
,|section-url=
,|sectionurl=
|author#=
,|author-last#=
,|author#-last=
,|last#=
,|surname#=
|author-first#=
,|author#-first=
,|first#=
,|given#=
- any of the named identifiers (
|isbn=
,|issn=
,|doi=
,|pmc=
, etc)
Deprecated
The coauthor and coauthors parameters are deprecated. Their use will place the page into Category:Pages containing cite templates with deprecated parameters. Use last# / first# or author or authors. If coauthor · coauthors are used for et al, then use display-authors=etal instead.
Description
Authors
- last: Surname of a single author. Do not wikilink—use author-link instead. For corporate authors or authors for whom only one name is listed by the source, use last or one of its aliases (e.g.
|author=Bono
). Aliases: last1, surname, surname1, author, author1.- author: this parameter is used to hold the complete name of a single author (first and last) or to hold the name of a corporate author. This parameter should never hold the names of more than one author.
- first: Given or first names of author; for example: Firstname Middlename or Firstname M. or Firstname M., Sr. Do not wikilink—use author-link instead. Aliases: first1, given, given1. Requires last; first name will not display if last is empty.
- OR: for multiple authors, use last1, first1 through lastn, firstn where n is any consecutive number for an unlimited number of authors (each firstn requires a corresponding lastn).
|first1=...
|last1=...
|author2=...
.
Aliases: surname1, given1 through surnamen, givenn, or author1 through authorn. For an individual author plus an institutional author, you can use - author-link: Title of existing Wikipedia article about the author—not the author's website; do not wikilink. Aliases: author-link1, authorlink, authorlink1, author1-link, author1link.
- OR: for multiple authors, use author-link1 through author-linkn. Aliases: authorlink1 through authorlinkn, or author1-link through authorn-link, or author1link through authornlink.
- name-list-format: displays authors and editors in Vancouver style when set to
vanc
and when the list useslast
/first
parameters for the name list(s)
- vauthors: comma separated list of author names in Vancouver style; enclose corporate or institutional author names in doubled parentheses:
|vauthors=Smythe JB, ((Megabux Corporation))
- author-link and author-mask may be used for the individual names in
|vauthors=
as described above
- authors: Free-form list of author names; use of this parameter is discouraged because it does not contribute to a citation's metadata; not an alias of last
- coauthors: (deprecated)
Names of coauthors. Requires author, authors, or lastnInclude coauthors in author or authors or use separate authorn or lastn/firstn to list coauthors. - translator-last: Surname of translator. Do not wikilink—use translator-link instead. Aliases: translator1, translator1-last, translator-last1.
- translator-first: Given or first names of translator. Do not wikilink—use translator-link instead. Aliases: translator1-first, translator-first1.
- OR: for multiple translators, use translator-last1, translator-first1 through translator-lastn, translator-firstn where n is any consecutive number for an unlimited number of translators (each translator-firstn requires a corresponding translator-lastn). Aliases: translator1-last, translator1-first through translatorn-last, translatorn-first, or translator1 through translatorn.
- translator-link: Title of existing Wikipedia article about the translator—not the translator's website; do not wikilink. Aliases: translator-link1, translator1-link.
- OR: for multiple translators, use translator-link1 through translator-linkn. Aliases: translator1-link through translatorn-link.
- collaboration: Name of a group of authors or collaborators; requires author, last, or vauthors which list one or more primary authors; follows author name-list; appends 'et al.' to author name-list.
- others: To record other contributors to the work, including illustrators. For the parameter value, write Illustrated by John Smith.
- Note: When using shortened footnotes or parenthetical referencing styles with templates, do not use multiple names in one field or else the anchor will not match the inline link.
Date
- date: Date of source being referenced. Can be full date (day, month, and year) or partial date (month and year, season and year, or year). Use same format as other publication dates in the citations.[date 1] Required when year is used to disambiguate
{{sfn}}
links to multiple-work citations by the same author in the same year.[more] Do not wikilink. Displays after the authors and is enclosed in parentheses. If there is no author, then displays after publisher.
- For approximate year, precede with "
c.
", like this:|date=c. 1900
.
- For no date, or "undated", add as
|date=n.d.
- year: Year of source being referenced. Use of
|date=
is recommended unless all of the following conditions are met:- The template uses
|ref=harv
, or the template is{{citation}}
, or|mode=cs2
- The
|date=
format is YYYY-MM-DD. - The citation requires a
CITEREF
disambiguator.
- The template uses
- orig-year: Original publication year; displays after the date or year. For clarity, please supply specifics. For example:
|orig-year=First published 1859
or|orig-year=Composed 1904
. Alias: origyear - df: date format; sets rendered dates to the specified format; does not support date ranges or seasonal dates. Accepts one value which may be one of these:
dmy
– set publication dates to day month year format; access- and archive-dates are not modified;mdy
– as above for month day, year formatymd
– as above for year initial numeric format YYYY-MM-DDdmy-all
– set publication, access-, and archive-dates to day month year format;mdy-all
– as above for month day, year formatymd-all
– as above for year initial numeric format YYYY-MM-DD
- ↑ Publication dates in references within an article should all have the same format. This may be a different format from that used for archive and access dates.
Editors
- editor-last: Surname of editor. Do not wikilink—use editor-link instead. Where the surname is usually written first—as in Chinese—or for corporate authors, simply use editor-last to include the same format as the source. Aliases: editor-last1, editor-surname, editor-surname1, editor1-last, editor, editor1.
- editor: this parameter is used to hold the complete name of a single editor (first and last). This parameter should never hold the names of more than one editor.
- editor-first: Given or first names of editor, including title(s); example: Firstname Middlename or Firstname M. or Dr. Firstname M., Sr. Do not wikilink—use editor-link instead. Aliases: editor-first1, editor-given, editor-given1, editor1-first.
- OR: for multiple editors, use editor-last1, editor-first1 through editor-lastn, editor-firstn (Aliases: editor-surnamen or editorn-last; editor-givenn or editorn-first; editorn). For an individual editor plus an institutional editor, you can use
|editor-first1=...
|editor-last1=...
|editor2=...
.
- editor-link: Title of existing Wikipedia article about the editor—not the editor's website; do not wikilink. Aliases: editor-link1.
- OR: for multiple editors, use editor-link1 through editor-linkn (alias editorn-link).
- name-list-format: displays authors and editors in Vancouver style when set to
vanc
and when the list useslast
/first
parameters for the name list(s)
- veditors: comma separated list of editor names in Vancouver style; enclose corporate or institutional names in doubled parentheses:
|veditors=Smythe JB, ((Megabux Corporation))
- editor-linkn and editor-maskn may be used for the individual names in
|veditors=
, as described above
- editor-linkn and editor-maskn may be used for the individual names in
- editors: Free-form list of editor names; use of this parameter is discouraged; not an alias of editor-last
- Display:
- Use display-editors to control the length of the displayed editor name list and to specify when "et al." is included.
- If authors: Authors are first, followed by the included work, then "In" and the editors, then the main work.
- If no authors: Editors appear before the included work; a single editor is followed by "ed."; multiple editors are followed by "eds."
Title
- title: Title of source. Can be wikilinked to an existing Wikipedia article or url may be used to add an external link, but not both. Displays in quotes. If script-title is defined, title holds romanized transliteration of title in script-title.
- script-title: Original title for languages that do not use a Latin-based alphabet (Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, etc); not italicized, follows italicized transliteration defined in title. May be prefixed with an ISO 639-1 two-character code to help browsers properly display the script:
... |title=Tōkyō tawā |script-title=ja:東京タワー |trans-title=Tokyo Tower ...
- trans-title: English translation of the title if the source cited is in a foreign language. Displays in square brackets after title; if url is defined, then trans-title is included in the link. Use of the language parameter is recommended.
- script-title: Original title for languages that do not use a Latin-based alphabet (Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, etc); not italicized, follows italicized transliteration defined in title. May be prefixed with an ISO 639-1 two-character code to help browsers properly display the script:
- Titles containing certain characters will display and link incorrectly unless those characters are encoded.
newline | [ | ] | | |
---|---|---|---|
space | [ | ] | {{!}} (preferred)
|
{{bracket|text}} | | or {{pipe}} – |
- When the title you are citing contains quotations marks or apostrophes at the beginning, end or both, you can use
 
to place a separation between that punctuation and the quotation marks this template automatically provides around the title, to avoid a non-ideal display such as '''.
- For example instead of title='name' which will display on many browsers with the quotation marks surrounding it as '''name''', use |title= 'name' , which will display as " 'name' ".
- title-link: Title of existing Wikipedia article about the source named in title – do not use a web address; do not wikilink. Alias: titlelink.
- type: Provides additional information about the media type of the source; format in sentence case. Displays in parentheses following the title. Examples: Thesis, Booklet, CD liner, Press release. Alias: medium.
- language: The language in which the source is written. Displays in parentheses with "in" before the language name or names. Use the full language name or ISO 639-1 code. When the source uses more than one language, list them individually, separated by commas, e.g.
|language=French, German
. The use of language names or language codes recognized by Wikimedia adds the page to the appropriate subcategory of Category:CS1 foreign language sources; do not use templates or wikilinks. Note: When the language is "English" (or "en"), no language is displayed in the citation. Note: When two or more languages are listed there is no need to include "and" before the last language. "and" is inserted automatically by the template.
URL
- url: URL of an online location where the text of the publication can be found. Cannot be used if title is wikilinked. If applicable, the link may point to the specific page(s) referenced. Remove spurious tracking parameters from URLs, e.g.
#ixzz2rBr3aO94
or?utm_source=google&utm_medium=...&utm_term=...&utm_campaign=...
. Do not link to any commercial booksellers, such as Amazon.com. Invalid URLs, including those containing spaces, will result in an error message.- access-date: Full date when the content pointed to by url was last verified to support the text in the article; do not wikilink; requires url; use the same format as other access and archive dates in the citations.[date 1] Not required for linked documents that do not change. For example, access-date is not required for links to copies of published research papers accessed via DOI or a published book, but should be used for links to news articles on commercial websites (these can change from time to time, even if they are also published in a physical medium). Note that access-date is the date that the URL was checked to not just be working, but to support the assertion being cited (which the current version of the page may not do). Can be hidden or styled by registered editors. Alias: accessdate.
- archive-url: The URL of an archived copy of a web page, if or in case the original URL becomes unavailable. Typically used to refer to services like WebCite and Internet Archive ; requires archive-date and url. Alias: archiveurl.
- archive-date: Date when the original URL was archived; preceded by default text "archived from the original on". Use the same format as other access and archive dates in the citations. This does not necessarily have to be the same format that was used for citing publication dates.[date 1] Do not wikilink. Alias: archivedate.
- dead-url: When the URL is still live, but pre-emptively archived, then set
|dead-url=no
. This changes the display order with the title retaining the original link and the archive linked at the end. When the original URL has been usurped for the purposes of spam, advertising, or is otherwise unsuitable, setting|dead-url=unfit
or|dead-url=usurped
will not link to the original URL in the rendered citation;|url=
is still required. Other accepted values are y, yes, or true. Alias: deadurl.
- template-doc-demo: The archive parameters will be error checked to ensure that all the required parameters are included, or else {{citation error}} is invoked. With errors, main, help and template pages are placed into one of the subcategories of Category:Articles with incorrect citation syntax. Set
|template-doc-demo=true
to disable categorization; mainly used for documentation where the error is demonstrated.
- format: Format of the work referred to by url; for example: PDF, DOC, or XLS; displayed in parentheses after title. HTML is implied and should not be specified. Automatically added when a PDF icon is displayed. Does not change the external link icon. Note: External link icons do not include alt text; thus, they do not add format information for the visually impaired.
- URLs must begin with a supported URI scheme.
http://
andhttps://
will be supported by all browsers; however,ftp://
,gopher://
,irc://
,ircs://
,mailto:
andnews:
may require a plug-in or an external application and should normally be avoided. IPv6 host-names are currently not supported. - If URLs in citation template parameters contain certain characters, then they will not display and link correctly. Those characters need to be percent-encoded. For example, a space must be replaced by
%20
. To encode the URL, replace the following characters with:
sp | " | ' | < | > | [ | ] | { | | | } |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
%20 | %22 | %27 | %3c | %3e | %5b | %5d | %7b | %7c | %7d |
- Single apostrophes do not need to be encoded; however, unencoded multiples will be parsed as italic or bold markup. Single curly closing braces also do not need to be encoded; however, an unencoded pair will be parsed as the double closing braces for the template transclusion.
- ↑ Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 Access-date and archive-date in references should all have the same format – either the format used for publication dates, or YYYY-MM-DD.
Periodical
- work: Name of the source periodical; may be wikilinked if relevant. Displays in italics. Aliases: journal, newspaper, magazine, periodical, website.
- issue: When the publication is one of a series that is published periodically. Alias: number. When the issue has a special title of its own, this may be given, in italics, along with the issue number, e.g.
|issue=2, ''Modern Canadian Literature''
. Displayed in parentheses following volume. - department: Title of a regular department, column, or section within the periodical or journal. Examples include "Communication", "Editorial", "Letter to the Editor", and "Review". Displays after title and is in plain text.
- issue: When the publication is one of a series that is published periodically. Alias: number. When the issue has a special title of its own, this may be given, in italics, along with the issue number, e.g.
- When set, work changes the formatting of other parameters:
- title is not italicized and is enclosed in quotes.
- chapter does not display in this citation template (and will produce an error message).
- location and publisher are enclosed in parentheses.
- page and pages do not show p. or pp.
- edition does not display.
Publisher
- publisher: Name of publisher; may be wikilinked if relevant. The publisher is the company that publishes the work being cited. Do not use the publisher parameter for the name of a work (e.g. a book, encyclopedia, newspaper, magazine, journal, website). Not normally used for periodicals. Corporate designations such as "Ltd", "Inc" or "GmbH" are not usually included. Omit where the publisher's name is substantially the same as the name of the work (for example, The New York Times Co. publishes The New York Times newspaper, so there is no reason to name the publisher). Displays after title; if work is defined, then publisher is enclosed in parentheses.
- place: Geographical place of publication; generally not wikilinked; omit when the name of the work includes the location; examples: The Boston Globe, The Times of India. Displays after the title; if work is defined, then location is enclosed in parentheses. Alias: location
- publication-place: If any one of publication-place, place or location are defined, then the location shows after the title; if publication-place and place or location are defined, then place or location are shown before the title prefixed with "written at" and publication-place is shown after the title.
- publication-date: Date of publication when different from the date the work was written. Displays only if year or date are defined and only if different, else publication-date is used and displayed as date. Use the same format as other dates in the article; do not wikilink. Follows publisher; if work is not defined, then publication-date is preceded by "published" and enclosed in parenthesis.
- via: Name of the content deliverer (if different from publisher). via is not a replacement for publisher, but provides additional detail. It may be used when the content deliverer presents the source in a format other than the original (e.g. NewsBank), when the URL provided does not make clear the identity of the deliverer, where no URL or DOI is available (EBSCO), if the deliverer requests attribution, or as requested in WP:The Wikipedia Library (e.g. Credo, HighBeam).
Edition, series, volume
- edition: When the publication has more than one edition; for example: "2nd", "Revised", and so forth. Appends the string " ed." after the field, so
|edition=2nd
produces "2nd ed." Does not display if a periodical field is defined.
- series or version: When the source is part of a series, such as a book series or a journal where the issue numbering has restarted.
- volume: For one publication published in several volumes. Displays after the title and series fields; volumes of four characters or less display in bold.
In-source locations
- page: The number of a single page in the source that supports the content. Use either
|page=
or|pages=
, but not both. Displays preceded by <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" id="" style="" inline="1">p.</syntaxhighlight> unless|nopp=y
or work (or an alias) is defined. - OR: pages: A range of pages in the source that supports the content. Use either
|page=
or|pages=
, but not both. Separate using an en dash (–); separate non-sequential pages with a comma (,); do not use to indicate the total number of pages in the source. Displays preceded by <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" id="" style="" inline="1">pp.</syntaxhighlight> unless|nopp=y
or work (or an alias) is defined. Hyphens are automatically converted to en dashes; if hyphens are appropriate, for example: pp. 3-1–3-15, use|at=
.- nopp: Set to y, yes, or true to suppress the <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" id="" style="" inline="1">p.</syntaxhighlight> or <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" id="" style="" inline="1">pp.</syntaxhighlight> notations where this is inappropriate; for example, where
|page=Front cover
or|pages=passim
.
- nopp: Set to y, yes, or true to suppress the <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" id="" style="" inline="1">p.</syntaxhighlight> or <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" id="" style="" inline="1">pp.</syntaxhighlight> notations where this is inappropriate; for example, where
- OR: at: For sources where a page number is inappropriate or insufficient. Overridden by
|page=
or|pages=
. Use only one of|page=
,|pages=
, or|at=
.
- Examples: page (p.) or pages (pp.); section (sec.), column (col.), paragraph (para.); track; hours, minutes and seconds; act, scene, canto, book, part, folio, stanza, back cover, liner notes, indicia, colophon, dust jacket, verse.
Identifiers
- id: A unique identifier, used where none of the specialized identifiers are applicable; wikilink or use a template as applicable.
These identifiers create links and are designed to accept a single value. Using multiple values or other text will break the link and/or invalidate the identifier. In general, the parameters should include only the variable part of the identifier, e.g. rfc=822
or pmc=345678
.
- arxiv: arXiv identifier; for example:
arxiv=hep-th/9205027
(before April 2007) orarxiv=0706.0001
or
arxiv=1501.00001
(since April 2007). Do not include extraneous file extensions like ".pdf" or ".html".
- asin: Amazon Standard Identification Number; if first character of asin value is a digit, use isbn.
- asin-tld: ASIN top-level domain for Amazon sites other than the US; valid values:
au
,br
,ca
,cn
,co.jp
,co.uk
,de
,es
,fr
,it
,mx
- asin-tld: ASIN top-level domain for Amazon sites other than the US; valid values:
- bibcode: Bibcode; used by a number of astronomical data systems; for example:
1974AJ.....79..819H
- doi: Digital object identifier; for example:
10.1038/news070508-7
. It is checked to ensure it begins with (<syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" id="" style="" inline="1">10.</syntaxhighlight>).- doi-broken-date: Date the DOI was found to be non-working at http://dx.doi.org. Use the same format as other dates in the article. Alias: doi_brokendate, doi-inactive-date
- eissn: International Standard Serial Number for the electronic media of a serial publication; eight characters may be split into two groups of four using a hyphen, but not an en dash or a space. Alias: EISSN
- hdl: Handle System identifier for digital objects and other resources on the Internet. Alias: HDL
- isbn: International Standard Book Number; for example:
978-0-8126-9593-9
. Dashes in the ISBN are optional, but preferred. Use the ISBN actually printed on or in the book. Use the 13-digit ISBN – beginning with 978 or 979 – when it is available. If only a 10-digit ISBN is printed on or in the book, use it. ISBNs can be found on the page with the publisher's information – usually the back of the title page – or beneath the barcode as a number beginning with 978 or 979 (barcodes beginning with any other numbers are not ISBNs). For sources with the older 9-digit SBN system, prefix the number with a zero; thus, SBN 902888-45-5 should be entered as|isbn=0-902888-45-5
. Do not convert a 10-digit ISBN to 13-digit by just adding the 978 prefix; the last digit is a calculated check digit and just making changes to the numbers will make the ISBN invalid. This parameter should hold only the ISBN without any additional characters. It is checked for length, invalid characters – anything other than numbers, spaces, and hyphens, with "X" permitted as the last character in a 10-digit ISBN – and the proper check digit. Alias: ISBN - ismn: International Standard Music Number; for example:
979-0-9016791-7-7
. Hyphens or spaces in the ISMN are optional. Use the ISMN actually printed on or in the work. This parameter should hold only the ISMN without any additional characters. It is checked for length, invalid characters – anything other than numbers, spaces, and hyphens – and the proper check digit. Alias: ISMN - issn: International Standard Serial Number; eight characters may be split into two groups of four using a hyphen, but not an en dash or a space. Alias: ISSN
- jfm: Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik
- jstor: JSTOR reference number; for example:
jstor=3793107
will generate JSTOR 3793107. - lccn: Library of Congress Control Number. When present, alphabetic prefix characters are to be lower case.
- mr: Mathematical Reviews
- oclc: OCLC; WorldCat's Online Computer Library Center
- ol: Open Library identifier; do not include "OL" in the value.
- osti: Office of Scientific and Technical Information
- pmc: PubMed Central; use article number for full-text free repository of a journal article, e.g.
pmc=345678
. Do not include "PMC" in the value.- embargo: Date that pmc goes live; if this date is in the future, then pmc is not linked until that date.
- pmid: PubMed; use unique identifier.
- rfc: Request for Comments
- ssrn: Social Science Research Network
- zbl: Zentralblatt MATH
Subscription or registration required
These parameters add a link note to the end of the citation:
- registration: For online sources that require registration, set
|registration=yes
(or y
, or true
); superseded by subscription if both are set.
- subscription: For online sources that require a subscription, set
|subscription=yes
(or y
, or true
); supersedes registration if both are set.
Lay summary
- lay-url: URL link to a non-technical summary or review of the source; the URL title is set to "Lay summary". Aliases: lay-summary, laysummary.
- lay-source: Name of the source of the laysummary. Displays in italics and preceded by an endash. Alias: laysource.
- lay-date: Date of the summary. Displays in parentheses. Alias: laydate.
Quote
- quote: Relevant text quoted from the source. Displays enclosed in quotes. When supplied, the citation terminator (a period by default) is suppressed, so the quote needs to include terminating punctuation.
Anchor
- ref: the citation's HTML anchor identifier. When set,
|ref=ID
generates an anchor with the given ID (the id
attribute in the citation's <cite id="ID">
HTML tag). Setting |ref=ID
identifies the template as a target and allows wikilinking to full references, especially useful with short-form citations like shortened notes and parenthetical referencing. The special value |ref=harv
generates an anchor identifier suitable for use with {{sfn}} and {{harv}} templates. When |mode=cs2
defaults to |ref=harv
.
Display options
- mode: Sets element separator, default terminal punctuation, and certain capitalization according to the value provided. For
|mode=cs1
, element separator is a semicolon (;
); terminal punctuation is a period (.
); where appropriate, initial letters of certain words are capitalized ('Retrieved...'). For |mode=cs2
, element separator is a comma (,
); terminal punctuation is omitted; where appropriate, initial letters of certain words are not capitalized ('retrieved...'). To override default terminal punctuation use postscript.
- author-mask: Replaces the name of the first author with em dashes or text. Set author-mask to a numeric value n to set the dash n em spaces wide; set author-mask to a text value to display the text without a trailing author separator; for example, "with". You must still include the values for all authors for metadata purposes. Primarily intended for use with bibliographies or bibliography styles where multiple works by a single author are listed sequentially such as shortened footnotes. Do not use in a list generated by
{{reflist}}
, <references />
or similar as there is no control of the order in which references are displayed. You can also use editor-mask and translator-mask in the same way.
- display-authors: Controls the number of author names that are displayed when a citation is published. To change the displayed number of authors, set display-authors to the desired number. For example,
|display-authors=2
will display only the first two authors in a citation. By default, all authors are displayed. |display-authors=etal
displays all authors in the list followed by et al. Aliases: displayauthors.
- display-editors: Controls the number of editor names that are displayed when a citation is published. To change the displayed number of editors, set display-editors to the desired number. For example,
|display-editors=2
will display only the first two editors in a citation. By default, all editors are displayed. |display-editors=etal
displays all editors in the list followed by et al. Aliases: displayeditors.
- last-author-amp: Switches the separator between the last two names of the author list to space ampersand space (
&
) when set to y
, yes
, or true
. Example: |last-author-amp=yes
- postscript: Controls the closing punctuation for a citation; defaults to a period (
.
); for no terminating punctuation, specify |postscript=none
– leaving |postscript=
empty is the same as omitting it, but is ambiguous. Ignored if quote is defined.
Notes
Although it may appear redundant to include multiple ids for articles, it is helpful for many editors who only have access to a certain resource. If only one ID is to be included, the DOI should be used, as this is the universal standard preferred by professional publications. Specifying a link as a doi, pmid etc. is always preferable to including it as a url parameter, as it makes it clear that the link is accurate and stable, but not necessarily openly accessible.
TemplateData
This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools; see the monthly error report for this template.
TemplateData for Cite journal
This template formats a citation to an article in a magazine or journal, using the provided source information (e.g. journal name, author, title, issue, URL) and various formatting options.
Template parameters
Parameter Description Type Status Last name last
author
author1
authors
last1
The surname of the author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink'; can suffix with a numeral to add additional authors
Line suggested First name first
first1
Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink'; can suffix with a numeral to add additional authors
Line suggested Author link author-link
authorlink
Title of existing Wikipedia article about the author; can suffix with a numeral to add additional authors
Page optional Last name 2 last2
author2
The surname of the second author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink2'.
Line optional First name 2 first2
Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the second author; don't wikilink.
Line optional Author link 2 author-link2
author2-link
authorlink2
Title of existing Wikipedia article about the second author.
Page optional Last name 3 last3
author3
The surname of the third author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink3'.
Line optional First name 3 first3
Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the third author; don't wikilink.
Line optional Author link 3 author-link3
author3-link
authorlink3
Title of existing Wikipedia article about the third author.
Page optional Last name 4 last4
author4
The surname of the forth author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink4'.
Line optional First name 4 first4
Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the forth author; don't wikilink.
Line optional Author link 4 author-link4
author4-link
authorlink4
Title of existing Wikipedia article about the forth author.
Page optional Last name 5 last5
author5
The surname of the fifth author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink5'.
Line optional First name 5 first5
Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the fifth author; don't wikilink.
Line optional Author link 5 author-link5
author5-link
authorlink5
Title of existing Wikipedia article about the sixth author.
Page optional Last name 6 last6
author6
The surname of the sixth author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink6'.
Line optional First name 6 first6
Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the sixth author; don't wikilink.
Line optional Author link 6 author-link6
author6-link
authorlink6
Title of existing Wikipedia article about the sixth author.
Page optional Last name 7 last7
author7
The surname of the seventh author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink7'.
Line optional First name 7 first7
Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the seventh author; don't wikilink.
Line optional Author link 7 author-link7
author7-link
authorlink7
Title of existing Wikipedia article about the seventh author.
Page optional Last name 8 last8
author8
The surname of the eighth author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink8'.
Line optional First name 8 first8
Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the eighth author; don't wikilink.
Line optional Author link 8 author-link8
author8-link
authorlink8
Title of existing Wikipedia article about the eighth author.
Page optional Last name 9 last9
author9
The surname of the ninth author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink9'. If nine authors are defined, then only eight will show and 'et al.' will show in place of the last author.
Line optional First name 9 first9
Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the ninth author; don't wikilink.
Line optional Author link 9 author-link9
author9-link
authorlink9
Title of existing Wikipedia article about the ninth author.
Page optional Display authors displayauthors
display-authors
number of authors to display before 'et al.' is used;
Number optional Author mask author-mask
Replaces the name of the first author with em dashes or text; set to a numeric value 'n' to set the dash 'n' em spaces wide; set to a text value to display the text without a trailing author separator; for example, 'with' instead
String optional Last author ampersand last-author-amp
lastauthoramp
When set to any value, changes the separator between the last two names of the author list to 'space ampersand space'
Boolean optional Author separator author-separator
Changes the separator between authors; defaults to a semicolon and space; a space must be encoded as  
- Default
- ;
Line optional Author name separator author-name-separator
Changes the separator between last and first names; defaults to a comma and space; a space must be encoded as  
- Default
- ,
Line optional Source date date
Full date of the source; do not wikilink
Date required Year of publication year
Year of the source being referenced; use 'date' instead, if month or season is also known
Number optional Original year orig-year
origyear
Original year of publication; provide specifics
Number optional Editor last name editor-last
editor1-last
The surname of the editor; don't wikilink, use 'editor-link'; can suffix with a numeral to add additional editors; alias of 'editor1-last', 'editor'
Line optional Editor first name editor-first
editor1-first
Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the editor; don't wikilink, use 'editor-link'; can suffix with a numeral to add additional editors; alias of 'editor1-first'
Line optional Editor link editor-link
Title of existing Wikipedia article about the editor; can suffix with a numeral to add additional editors; alias of 'editor1-link'
Page optional Editor last name 2 editor2-last
editor2
The surname of the second editor; don't wikilink, use 'editor2-link'.
Line optional Editor first name 2 editor2-first
Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the second editor; don't wikilink.
Line optional Editor link 2 editor2-link
editor2link
editorlink2
Title of existing Wikipedia article about the second editor.
Page optional Editor last name 3 editor3-last
editor3
The surname of the third editor; don't wikilink, use 'editor3-link'.
Line optional Editor first name 3 editor3-first
Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the third editor; don't wikilink.
Line optional Editor link 3 editor3-link
editor3link
editorlink3
Title of existing Wikipedia article about the third editor.
Page optional Editor last name 4 editor4-last
editor4
The surname of the fourth editor; don't wikilink, use 'editor4-link'.
Line optional Editor first name 4 editor4-first
Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the fourth editor; don't wikilink.
Line optional Editor link 4 editor4-link
editor4link
editorlink4
Title of existing Wikipedia article about the fourth editor.
Page optional Editor last name 5 editor5-last
editor5
The surname of the fifth editor; don't wikilink, use 'editor5-link'.
Line optional Editor first name 5 editor5-first
Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the fifth editor; don't wikilink.
Line optional Editor link 5 editor5-link
editor5link
editorlink5
Title of existing Wikipedia article about the fifth editor.
Page optional Editor last name 6 editor6-last
editor6
The surname of the sixth editor; don't wikilink, use 'editor6-link'.
Line optional Editor first name 6 editor6-first
Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the sixth editor; don't wikilink.
Line optional Editor link 6 editor6-link
editor6link
editorlink6
Title of existing Wikipedia article about the sixth editor.
Page optional Editor last name 7 editor7-last
editor7
The surname of the seventh editor; don't wikilink, use 'editor7-link'.
Line optional Editor first name 7 editor7-first
Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the seventh editor; don't wikilink.
Line optional Editor link 7 editor7-link
editor7link
editorlink7
Title of existing Wikipedia article about the seventh editor.
Page optional Editor last name 8 editor8-last
editor8
The surname of the eighth editor; don't wikilink, use 'editor8-link'.
Line optional Editor first name 8 editor8-first
Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the eighth editor; don't wikilink.
Line optional Editor link 8 editor8-link
editor8link
editorlink8
Title of existing Wikipedia article about the eighth editor.
Page optional Editor last name 9 editor9-last
editor9
The surname of the ninth editor; don't wikilink, use 'editor9-link'.
Line optional Editor first name 9 editor9-first
Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the ninth editor; don't wikilink.
Line optional Editor link 9 editor9-link
editor9link
editorlink9
Title of existing Wikipedia article about the ninth editor.
Page optional Others others
Used to record other contributions to the work, such as 'Illustrated by John Smith' or 'Translated by John Smith'
Content optional Title title
The title of the article; can be wikilinked to an existing Wikipedia article or url may be used to add an external link, but not both. Displays in quotes.
Content required Script title script-title
For titles in languages that do not use a Latin-based alphabet (Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, etc). Prefix with two-character ISO639-1 language code followed by a colon. For Japanese use: |script-title=ja:...
Line optional Translated title trans-title
trans_title
An English language title, if the source cited is in a foreign language; 'language' is recommended
Content optional URL url
URL
The URL of the online location where the text of the publication can be found
Line suggested Dead URL dead-url
deadurl
If set to 'no', the title display is adjusted; useful for when the URL is archived preemptively but still live
Line optional Format format
Format of the work referred to by 'url' ('url' is required when using 'format'); examples: PDF, DOC, XLS; do not specify HTML
Content optional Department department
Department within the periodical
String optional Journal journal
Name of the source journal; may be wikilinked; displays in italics; alias of 'work'
Content required Chapter chapter
The chapter heading of the source
String optional Type type
Additional information about the media type of the source; format in sentence case
Content optional Series series
version
Series identifier when the source is part of a series, such as a book series or a journal; alias of 'version'
Content optional Language language
The language in which the source is written, if not English; use the full language name; do not use icons or templates
Content optional Edition edition
When the publication has more than one edition; for example: '2nd', 'Revised' etc.; suffixed with ' ed.'
Line optional Location of publication location
Geographical place of publication; usually not wikilinked; omit when the publication name includes place; alias of 'place'
String optional Publisher publisher
Name of the publisher; displays after title
Content optional Place of publication publication-place
Publication place shows after title; if 'place' or 'location' are also given, they are displayed before the title prefixed with 'written at'
Content optional Publication date publication-date
Date of publication when different from the date the work was written; do not wikilink
Date optional Volume volume
For one publication published in several volumes
Line suggested Issue issue
Issue identifier when the source is part of a series that is published periodically
Line suggested Page page
Page in the source that supports the content; displays after 'p.'
Line optional Pages pages
Pages in the source that support the content (not an indication of the number of pages in the source; displays after 'pp.'
Line optional At at
May be used instead of 'page' or 'pages' where a page number is inappropriate or insufficient
Line optional No pp nopp
Set to 'y' to suppress the 'p.' or 'pp.' display with 'page' or 'pages' when inappropriate (such as 'Front cover')
Line optional arXiv identifier arxiv
An identifier for arXive electronic preprints of scientific papers
Line optional ASIN asin
Amazon Standard Identification Number; 10 characters
Line optional ASIN TLD asin-tld
ASIN top-level domain for Amazon sites other than the US
Line optional Bibcode bibcode
Bibliographic Reference Code (REFCODE); 19 characters
Line optional DOI doi
Digital Object Identifier; begins with '10.'
String suggested DOI broken date doi-broken-date
The date that the DOI was determined to be broken
Date optional ISBN isbn
International Standard Book Number; use the 13-digit ISBN where possible
Line optional ISSN issn
International Standard Serial Number; 8 characters; may be split into two groups of four using a hyphen
Line optional jfm code jfm
Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik classification code
Line optional JSTOR jstor
JSTOR identifier
Line optional LCCN lccn
Library of Congress Control Number
Line optional MR mr
Mathematical Reviews identifier
Line optional OCLC oclc
Online Computer Library Center number
Number optional OL ol
Open Library identifier
Line optional OSTI osti
Office of Scientific and Technical Information identifier
Line optional PMC pmc
PubMed Center article number
Number optional PMID pmid
PubMed Unique Identifier
Line suggested RFC rfc
Request for Comments number
Number optional SSRN ssrn
Social Science Research Network
Line optional Zbl zbl
Zentralblatt MATH journal identifier
Line optional id id
A unique identifier used where none of the specialized ones are applicable
Line optional Archive URL archive-url
archiveurl
The URL of an archived copy of a web page, if or in case the URL becomes unavailable; requires 'archivedate'
Line optional Archive date archive-date
archivedate
Date when the original URL was archived; do not wikilink
Date optional URL access date access-date
accessdate
The full date when the original URL was accessed; do not wikilink
Date suggested Registration registration
If the reference requires registration, type 'yes' to notify the reader.
String optional Subscription subscription
If the reference requires a subscription, type 'yes' to notify the reader.
String optional Lay URL lay-url
layurl
URL link to a non-technical summary or review of the source; alias of 'laysummary'
Line optional Lay source lay-source
laysource
Name of the source of the laysummary; displays in italics, preceded by an en dash
String optional Lay date lay-date
laydate
Date of the summary; displays in parentheses
Date optional Quote quote
Relevant text quoted from the source; displays last, enclosed in quotes; needs to include terminating punctuation
Content optional Postscript postscript
The closing punctuation for the citation; ignored if 'quote' is defined; to suppress use reserved keyword 'none'
- Default
- .
Line optional Ref ref
An anchor identifier; can be made the target of wikilinks to full references; special value 'harv' generates an anchor suitable for the harv and sfn templates
Line optional Separator separator
The punctuation used to separate lists of authors, editors, etc.; a space must be encoded as   to suppress use reserved keyword 'none'
- Default
- .
Line optional Content deliverer (i.e. Database) via
Provider of the article (not the publisher), usually an aggregator of journal articles or a repository
- Example
- JSTOR, Project MUSE, Elsevier Science Direct
String suggested
Alternate usages
For medical articles, this citation-filling template can be used to generate a cite journal template from a PubMed identified (PMID).
See also
This template produces COinS metadata; see COinS in Wikipedia for background information.