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Purpose

This template adds an external link to an entry in the Dictionary of African Christian Biography (DACB) at dacb.org.

Parameters

Parameters:

|url-id=the location of the entry at the DACB website. For example, the entry "Afua Kuma (1908-1987)", with the URL https://dacb.org/stories/ghana/afua-kuma/ , will be said to have the url-id of ghana/afua-kuma.

All the rest of the parameters take values as described in {{cite encyclopedia}}

|title=Title of the Article
|last=Surname of the article author
|first=Given name(s) of the article author
|author-link=Wikipedia article title about that author
|last2=Additional article authors can be added, in the same format.
|first2=
|author2-link=
|last3=
|first3=
|author3-link=
|last4=
|first4=
|author4-link=
|access-date=access date of the article; date format should match the rest of the citations in our article

Examples and usage

Suppose you want to add an external link to the DACB's article on Afua Kuma (1908-1987). The location of this entry at the DACB is at ghana/afua-kuma , the title of the entry is "Afua Kuma (1908-1987)." The code

  • {{Cite DACB |url-id=ghana/afua-kuma |title=Afua Kuma (1908-1987) |first=Sara J. |last=Fretheim |access-date=17 December 2025}}

will produce the link

  • Fretheim, Sara J. "Afua Kuma (1908-1987)". Dictionary of African Christian Biography. Retrieved 17 December 2025.

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