Template:Cite/doc

This template is for citing sources.

For a list of citation templates, see Wikipedia:Citation templates.

The use of citation templates is recommended, but not mandatory. See Wikipedia:Citing sources for the relevant style guidelines.

Please consider using specific citation templates before using this general template.

Example:

Code:

{{cite 
 |author=Fred Bloggs 
 |title=A book 
 |publisher=A Publisher 
 |date=2004-07-31 }}

Result:

Fred Bloggs (2004-07-31), A book, A Publisher

Note: Since "the date" is a single parameter in the code, the ISO 8601 date format (YYYY-MM-DD) should be used; something like date=July 31, 2004 doesn't work correctly.

Useful links

• Zotero - find articles in Mozilla Firefox and easily paste them into Wikipedia as citation templates with Ctrl-Alt-C
• Verisimilus's Cite generator - find articles using built-in Google Scholar interface and automatically produce an appropriate cite template. Also features a BibTeX to {{cite}} converter.