Template:Cite Bing Maps/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:Cite Bing Maps.
It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

This template is a Citation Style 1 specific-source template based on {{Cite map}}. For centralised Citation Style 1 discussions, see Help talk:Citation Style 1.

This template is used for referencing maps published by Microsoft through their Bing Maps service.

It can also be set to emulate CS2 style.

Note that unlike paper maps, Bing Maps offers dynamic sizing at variable scales. Major citation style guides omit a map scale in that situation so this template does not render any scale output.

Usage

This:

{{Bing maps |url=http://binged.it/Q06Ih9 |title=Grand Rapids, MI |access-date=1 April 2024}}

generates this:

Microsoft; Nokia (1 April 2024). "Grand Rapids, MI" (Map). Bing Maps. Microsoft. Retrieved 1 April 2024.

Parameters

url: the URL for the map in question
title: a "subtitle" for the map. The link text will appear as "<title>" if "title" is used; otherwise, it will be the page name.
access-date: the full retrieval date.
link: set to no to unlink the authors.
mode: set to "cs2" to use Citation Style 2 output
last-author-amp: to join the authors with an ampersand (&) instead of a semicolon (;) for consistency with other citations in an article

Usage

Parameters

See also