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When writing articles, you can use the cite web template to generate footnotes with consistent styling and information. Not all fields are required. | When writing articles, you can use the cite web template to generate footnotes with consistent styling and information. Not all fields are required. | ||
<PRE> | |||
< | <ref> | ||
| title=Title of page or thread | {{cite web | ||
| url=http://blah.blah (required) | | title = Title of page or thread | ||
| work=Site name or description | | url = http://blah.blah (required) | ||
| publisher=company name | | work = Site name or description | ||
| accessdate=date you looked at page in dd mmmm yyyy format | | publisher = company name | ||
| author=Author Name (required) | | accessdate = date you looked at page in dd mmmm yyyy format | ||
| date=date of article dd mmmm yyyy format, e.g. 12 March 2013 | | author = Author Name (required) | ||
| quote=snippet of pertinent text | | date = date of article dd mmmm yyyy format, e.g. 12 March 2013 | ||
| quote = snippet of pertinent text}} | |||
</ref> | |||
</PRE> | |||
== Known bugs == | == Known bugs == | ||
Revision as of 21:07, 26 March 2013
Template documentation
This template is used to cite Web-based sources. It works similarly to Wikipedia's Template:Cite web. But it accepts fewer parameters and is much less polished.
This template accepts the following parameters. All parameter names must be in lowercase.
- author
- date
- url (required)
- title (required)
- work
- publisher
- at
- accessdate
- quote
Format
When writing articles, you can use the cite web template to generate footnotes with consistent styling and information. Not all fields are required.
<ref>
{{cite web
| title = Title of page or thread
| url = http://blah.blah (required)
| work = Site name or description
| publisher = company name
| accessdate = date you looked at page in dd mmmm yyyy format
| author = Author Name (required)
| date = date of article dd mmmm yyyy format, e.g. 12 March 2013
| quote = snippet of pertinent text}}
</ref>
Known bugs
- If author isn't specified, then date will not be shown.