Template:Wikicite/doc

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{{Wikicite}} makes a simple reference, for use in a "References" section for books, journals, web references, etc. The reference text is formatted manually, and the template merely adds an anchor for linking from in-text citations.

Cut-'n'-paste:

{{Wikicite | id= | reference= }}

or, alternatively

{{Wikicite | ref= | reference= }}

The "id" or "ref" parameters are alternative unique identifiers used for the reference link on the page, compatible with some other reference templates. The specified content for these parameters must be enclosed in quotes unless it consists entirely of letters, figures, hyphens and periods. If it contains any other character - such as a blank or underscore - it must be quoted. (e.g., an id of Von Autor-2006 must be specified as "Von Autor-2006")

Recommended format (using the id parameter for illustration):

* {{Wikicite | id= Atwood-2003 | reference= Atwood, Margaret (2003). ''Oryx and Crake'', Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. ISBN 0-7710-0868-6. }}

Result:

Atwood, Margaret (2003). Oryx and Crake, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. ISBN 0-7710-0868-6.

Resulting code:

<li><span class="citation wikicite" id="Reference-Atwood-2003">Atwood, Margaret (2003). ''Oryx and Crake'', Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:Booksources&isbn=0771008686" class="internal">ISBN 0-7710-0868-6</a>.</span></li>

This includes the HTML <span class="citation wikicite" id="Reference-Atwood-2003">, allowing you to link to the citation in your article's text with, for example [[#Reference-Atwood-2003 |(Atwood 2003)]], yielding a Harvard-style reference (Atwood 2003).

This is typically linked to in the article body from a shortened footnote in this form: <ref>[[#Reference-Atwood-2003| Atwood (2003)]]</ref>

This can be linked from {{Harv}} family templates if the ref parameter is used in combination with the {{Harvid}} template, as in the following example:

* {{Wikicite | ref= {{Harvid|Atwood|2003}} | reference= Atwood, Margaret (2003). ''Oryx and Crake'', Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. ISBN 0-7710-0868-6. }}

Resulting code:

<li><span class="citation wikicite" id="CITEREFAtwood2003">Atwood, Margaret (2003). ''Oryx and Crake'', Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:Booksources&isbn=0771008686" class="internal">ISBN 0-7710-0868-6</a>.</span></li>

Features

Compatible with any reference style: editor has 100% control of the format through a technology called editing wikitext

Technical features:

Produces well-formed, accessible, semantically-correct HTML code
Compatible many other templates' in-text citation links (any id which starts with "Reference-")
Complies with WP:AUM
No conditionals
No CSS hacks

Alternatives

Note that the identical behavior can be achieved using the more standard {{Harvnb}} and {{Citation}}.

In article body: {{Harv|Atwood|2003}}

In references section: *{{Citation| last=Atwood | first=Margaret | year=2003 | title=Oryx and Crake | location=Toronto | publisher=McClelland & Stewart | isbn=0771008686}}

Features

Alternatives

See also