Template:Cite sign

Citation Style 1 templates
{{Cite arXiv}}	arXiv preprints
{{Cite AV media}}	audio and visual media
{{Cite AV media notes}}	AV media liner notes
{{Cite bioRxiv}}	bioRxiv preprints
{{Cite book}}	books and chapters
{{Cite CiteSeerX}}	CiteSeerX papers
{{Cite conference}}	conference papers
{{cite document}}	short, stand-alone, offline documents
{{Cite encyclopedia}}	edited collections
{{Cite episode}}	radio or TV episodes
{{Cite interview}}	interviews
{{Cite journal}}	academic journals
{{Cite magazine}}	magazines, periodicals
{{Cite mailing list}}	public mailing lists
{{Cite map}}	maps
{{Cite medRxiv}}	medRxiv preprints
{{Cite news}}	news articles
{{Cite newsgroup}}	online newsgroups
{{Cite podcast}}	podcasts
{{Cite press release}}	press releases
{{Cite report}}	reports
{{Cite serial}}	audio or video serials
{{Cite sign}}	signs, plaques
{{Cite speech}}	speeches
{{Cite SSRN}}	SSRN papers
{{Cite tech report}}	technical reports
{{Cite thesis}}	theses
{{Cite web}}	web sources not covered by the above
See also	Specific-source templates; t e;

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This template uses Lua:

Module:Citation/CS1 (sandbox)

This

citations

for signs, plaques, gravestones, and other non-video visuals.

Usage

Copy a blank version to use. Almost all parameter names are supported only in lower case (some initialisms, such as |isbn= have upper-case aliases like |ISBN=, which are acceptable for use). Use the "|" (pipe) character between each parameter. Unused parameters may be deleted to avoid clutter in the edit window. Some samples on this documentation page may include the current date. If the date is not current, then purge the page.

Blank

{{Cite sign 
|title       = 
|year        = 
|date        = 
|type        = 
|publisher   = 
|location    = 
|author      = 
|url         = 
|access-date = 
|medium      = 
}}

Examples

{{Cite sign |title=The Underwater Archaeology Centre |year=2006 |type=Plaque outside museum |publisher=The Hampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology |location=[[Fort Victoria (Isle of Wight)|Fort Victoria]]}}

The Underwater Archaeology Centre (Plaque outside museum).
Fort Victoria
: The Hampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology. 2006.

{{cite sign |author=Michigan Historical Marker Program |url=http://www.jacksonmich.com/markers/mark1.htm |title=Under the Oaks |location=Jackson, MI |publisher=Michigan Department of Natural Resources |date=February 18, 1956 |access-date=July 25, 2010 |medium=Michigan Historical Marker}}

Michigan Historical Marker Program (February 18, 1956). Under the Oaks (Michigan Historical Marker). Jackson, MI: Michigan Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved July 25, 2010.

Parameters

Syntax

Nested parameters rely on their parent parameters:

parent
OR: parent2—may be used instead of parent
- child—may be used with parent (and is ignored if parent is not used)
- OR: child2—may be used instead of child (and is ignored if parent2 is not used)

Where aliases are listed, only one of the parameters may be defined; if multiple aliased parameters are defined, then only one will show.

By default, sets of fields are terminated with a period (.).

COinS

This template embeds COinS metadata in the HTML output, allowing reference management software to retrieve bibliographic metadata. See Wikipedia:COinS. As a general rule, only one data item per parameter. Do not include explanatory or alternate text:

use |date=27 September 2007 not |date=27 September 2007 (print version 25 September)

Use of templates within the citation template is discouraged because many of these templates will add extraneous HTML or CSS that will be included raw in the metadata. Also, HTML entities, for example  , –, or  , should not be used in parameters that contribute to the metadata.

COinS metadata is created for these parameters

Note: This table of metadata is displayed in the documentation of all Citation Style 1 templates. Not all of these parameters are supported by every CS1 template. Some of these parameters are mutually exclusive, some are aliases of another parameter, and some require other parameters to be present. A full list of this template's supported parameters, their aliases, and their dependencies is shown in the Usage section near the top of this documentation page.

|periodical=, |journal=, |newspaper=, |magazine=, |work=, |website=, |encyclopedia=, |encyclopaedia=, |dictionary=
|chapter=, |script-chapter=, |contribution=, |script-contribution=, |entry=, |script-entry=, |article=, |script-article=, |section=, |script-section=
|title=, |script-title=, |book-title=
|publication-place=, |place=, |location=
|date=, |year=, |publication-date=
|series=, |version=
|volume=, |issue=, |number=
|page=, |pages=, |at=, |quote-page=, |quote-pages=
|edition=
|publisher=, |institution=
|url=, |chapter-url=, |contribution-url=, |section-url=
|author-last=, |author-last#=, |author#-last=, |author-surname=, |author-surname#=, |author#-surname=, |last=, |last#=, |surname=, |surname#=, |author=, |author#=, |subject=, |subject#=, |host=, |host#=
|author-first=, |author-first#=, |author#-first=, |author-given=, |author-given#=, |author#-given=, |first=, |first#=, |given=, |given#=
|degree=
|arxiv=, |bibcode=, |biorxiv=, |citeseerx=, |doi=, |eissn=, |eprint=, |hdl=, |isbn=, |issn=, |jfm=, |jstor=, |lccn=, |message-id=, |mr=, |oclc=, |osti=, |pmc=, |pmid=, |rfc=, |ssrn=, |s2cid=, |zbl=

Deprecated

Deprecated CS1/CS2 parameters
Deprecated parameter	Replace with	Date
`\|authors=`	`\|lastn=` / `\|firstn=`, `\|authorn=`, `\|vauthors=`	November 2023

Recently removed CS1/CS2 parameters
Removed parameter	Replace with	Date
`\|lay-date=`	(delete)	August 2023
`\|lay-source=`	(delete)
`\|lay-url=`	(delete)
`\|transcripturl=`	`\|transcript-url=`	August 2023

Description

Authors

last: Surname of a single author. Do not wikilink—use author-link instead. For corporate authors or authors for whom only one name is listed by the source, use last or one of its aliases (e.g. |author=Bono). Aliases: surname, author, last1, surname1, author1.
author: this parameter is used to hold the name of an organizational author (e.g. a committee) or the complete name (first and last) of a single person; for the latter, prefer the use of |first= and |last=. This parameter should never hold the names of more than one author. Supports accept-this-as-written markup. Do not use italics in this field, as doing so produces corrupt metadata.

first: Given or first names of author; for example: Firstname Middlename or Firstname M. or Firstname M. Sr. Do not wikilink—use author-link instead. Aliases: given, first1, given1. Requires last; first name will not display if last is empty. Use generational and regnal suffixes only in accordance with
MOS:HON
.

OR: for multiple authors, use last1, first1 through lastn, firstn, where n is any consecutive number for an unlimited number of authors (each firstn requires a corresponding lastn, but not the other way around). Aliases: surname1, given1 through surnamen, givenn, or author1 through authorn. For an individual author plus an institutional author, you can use |first1=...|last1=...|author2=....

author-link: Title of existing Wikipedia article about the author—not the author's website; do not wikilink. Aliases: author-link1, author1-link, authorlink.

OR: for multiple authors, use author-link1 through author-linkn. Aliases: author1-link through authorn-link.

name-list-style: accepts a limited list of keywords as value; when set to amp, ampersand, or &, inserts an ampersand between the last two names in a name list; when set to and, inserts the conjunction 'and' between the last two names of a name list; when set to vancdisplays name lists in
Vancouver style
when the lists use the last/first forms of name parameters.
vauthors: comma-separated list of author names in
Vancouver style; enclose corporate or institutional author names in doubled parentheses
. End with etal if appropriate:
|vauthors=Smythe JB, ((Megabux Corp.)), etal
- author-link and author-mask may be used for the individual names in |vauthors= as described above

authors: deprecated ~~Free-form list of author names; use of this parameter is discouraged because it does not contribute to a citation's metadata; not an alias of last.~~

translator-last: Surname of translator. Do not wikilink—use translator-link instead. Aliases: translator-surname, translator1, translator1-last, translator-last1. Supports accept-this-as-written markup.
- translator-first: Given or first names of translator. Do not wikilink—use translator-link instead. Aliases: translator-given, translator1-first, translator-first1.
- OR: for multiple translators, use translator-last1, translator-first1 through translator-lastn, translator-firstn, where n is any consecutive number for an unlimited number of translators (each translator-firstn requires a corresponding translator-lastn, but not the other way around). Aliases: translator1-last, translator1-first through translatorn-last, translatorn-first, or translator1 through translatorn.
- translator-link: Title of existing Wikipedia article about the translator—not the translator's website; do not wikilink. Aliases: translator-link1, translator1-link.
- OR: for multiple translators, use translator-link1 through translator-linkn. Aliases: translator1-link through translatorn-link.
collaboration: Name of a group of authors or collaborators; requires author, last, or vauthors listing one or more primary authors; follows author name-list; appends "et al." to author name-list.
others: To record other contributors to the work, including illustrators. For the parameter value, write Illustrated by John Smith.

Note: When using shortened footnotes or parenthetical referencing styles with templates, do not use multiple names in one field, or else the anchor will not match the inline link.

Title

title: Title of source. Can be wikilinked to an existing Wikipedia article or url may be used to add an external link, but not both. Displays in italics. If script-title is defined, use title to hold a
Romanization
(if available) of the title in script-title.
- script-title: Original title for languages that do not use a Latin-based script (Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, etc.); not italicized, follows italicized Romanization defined in title (if present). Must be prefixed with one of the supported language codes to help browsers properly display the script:
  ... |title=Tōkyō tawā |script-title=ja:東京タワー |trans-title=Tokyo Tower ...
- trans-title: English translation of the title if the source cited is in a foreign language. Displays in square brackets after title. Use of the language parameter is recommended.

Titles containing certain characters will not display and link correctly unless those characters are encoded.

newline	[	]	\|
space	[	]	`{{!}}` (preferred)
	{{bracket\|text}}		\| or {{pipe}} – see also Help:Table § Rendering the pipe

title-link: Title of existing Wikipedia article about the source named in title – do not use a web address; do not wikilink.

type: Provides additional information about the media type of the source. May alternatively be used to identify the type of manuscript linked to in the title, if this is not the final version of a manuscript (e.g. if a preprint of a manuscript is freely available, but the version of record is behind a paywall). Format in sentence case. Displays in parentheses following the title. The reserved keyword none can be used to disable the display of a type. Examples: Thesis, Booklet, Accepted manuscript, CD liner, Press release. Alias: medium.

language: The language (or a comma-separated list of the languages) in which the source is written, as either the ISO 639 language code (preferred) or the full language name. Examples: |language=ru; |lang=fr, pt-br; |lang=Russian; |language=French, Portuguese. See the list of supported codes and names. Do not use templates or wikilinks. Displays in parentheses with "in" before the language name or names. When the only source language is English, no language is displayed in the citation. The use of languages recognized by the citation module adds the page to the appropriate subcategory of Category:CS1 foreign language sources. Because cs1|2 templates are often copied from en.wiki to other wikis, the use of language codes is preferred so that language names render in the correct language and form: espagnol at a French-language wiki instead of the English word "Spanish". Aliases: lang

Date

date: Date of referenced source. Can be full date (day, month, and year) or partial date (month and year, season and year, or year). Use same format as other publication dates in the citations.[date 1] Do not wikilink. Displays after the authors and is enclosed in parentheses. If there is no author, then displays after the website and publisher.

Shortened footnotes target full citations using the year specified in this parameter. A lowercase letter may be suffixed to the year to disambiguate {{sfn}} links to multiple works by the same author in the same year,^[more] unless the date is formatted as YYYY-MM-DD. In the latter case, year or ref is required to disambiguate the link targets.

For approximate year, precede with "c. ", like this: |date=c. 1900.

For no date, or "undated", use |date=n.d.

The date of a Web page, PDF, etc. with no visible date can sometimes be established by searching the page source or document code for a created or updated date; a comment for editors such as date=2021-12-25|orig-date=Original date 2011-01-01 can be added.

Automatic date formatting: Citation Style 1 and 2 templates, including this template, automatically render dates in all date parameters (such as |date=, |publication-date=, |access-date=, |archive-date=, etc.) except for |orig-date= in the style specified by the article's {{use dmy dates}} or {{use mdy dates}} template. See those templates' documentation for details.

year: Year of publication. The more flexible |date= parameter also handles a year by itself. Do not use in combination with the |date= parameter, unless both of the following conditions are met:
1. Shortened footnotes target multiple citations with same last name and year of publication. (This situation necessitates a CITEREF disambiguator, usually a lowercase letter suffixed to the year.)
2. The |date= format is YYYY-MM-DD. (This format prevents the addition of a disambiguating letter to the year.)
orig-date: Original publication date or year; displays in square brackets after the date (or year). For clarity, please supply specifics. For example: |orig-date=First published 1859 or |orig-date=Composed 1904. As |orig-date= does not support automatic date formatting, use the same date format as defined by |df= (or, if it exists in the article, by |cs1-dates= of a {{use dmy dates}} or {{use mdy dates}} template), or as used in the |date= parameter. Alias: orig-year
df: date format; sets rendered dates to the specified format; does not support date ranges or seasonal dates; overrides the automatic date formatting described above. Accepts one value which may be one of these:
dmy – set publication dates to day month year format; access- and archive-dates are not modified;

mdy – as above for month day, year format

ymd – as above for year initial numeric format YYYY-MM-DD

dmy-all – set publication, access-, and archive-dates to day month year format;

mdy-all – as above for month day, year format

ymd-all – as above for year initial numeric format YYYY-MM-DD

MOS:DATEUNIFY
.

Publisher

publisher: Name of publisher; may be wikilinked if relevant. The
publisher is the company, organization or other legal entity that publishes the work being cited. Do not use the publisher parameter for the name of a work
(e.g. a website, book, encyclopedia, newspaper, magazine, journal, etc.). If the name of the publisher changed over time, use the name as stated in the publication or used at the time of the source's publication. Corporate designations such as "Ltd", "Inc.", or "GmbH" are not usually included. Not normally used for periodicals. Omit where the publisher's name is substantially the same as the name of the work (for example, The New York Times Co. publishes The New York Times newspaper, so there is no reason to name the publisher). Displays after title.

place: For news stories with a dateline, the location where the story was written. If the name of the location changed over time, use the name as stated in the publication or used at the time of the source's publication. In earlier versions of the template this was the publication place, and for compatibility, will be treated as the publication place if the publication-place parameter is absent; see that parameter for further information. Alias: location

publication-place: Geographical place of publication; generally not wikilinked; omit when the name of the work includes the publication place, for example, The Boston Globe, The Times of India. Displays after the title. If the name of the publication place changed over time, use the name as stated in the publication or used at the time of the source's publication. If only one of publication-place, place, or location is defined, it will be treated as the publication place and will show after the title; if publication-place and place or location are defined, then place or location is shown before the title prefixed with "written at" and publication-place is shown after the title.

publication-date: Date of publication when different from the date the work was written. If date (or year) is also defined and is different, then publication-date displays preceded by "published" and enclosed in parentheses, following publisher. If date (or year) is not defined, publication-date is displayed as date. Use the same format as other dates in the article; do not wikilink.

via: Name of the content deliverer (if different from publisher). via is not a replacement for publisher, but provides additional detail. It may be used when the content deliverer (e.g. NewsBank) presents the source in a format different from the original, when the URL provided does not make clear the identity of the deliverer, where no URL or DOI is available (EBSCO), or if the deliverer requests attribution. See the access level parameters to display access restrictions.

Edition, series, volume

edition: When the publication has more than one edition; for example: "2nd", "Revised", and so forth. Appends the string " ed." after the field, so |edition=2nd produces "2nd ed." Does not display if a periodical field is defined.

series or version: When the source is part of a series, such as a book series or a journal, where the issue numbering has restarted.

volume: For one publication published in several volumes. Displays after the title and series fields; volume numbers should be entered just as a numeral (e.g. 37). Volume values that are wholly digits, wholly uppercase Roman numerals, or fewer than five characters will appear in bold. Any alphanumeric value of five or more characters will not appear in bold. In rare cases, publications carry both an ongoing volume and a year-related value; if so, provide them both, for example |volume=IV / #10.

URL

url: URL of an online location where the text of the publication named by title can be found. Cannot be used if title is wikilinked. If applicable, the link may point to the specific page(s) referenced. Remove tracking parameters from URLs, e.g. #ixzz2rBr3aO94 or ?utm_source=google&utm_medium=...&utm_term=...&utm_campaign=.... For linking to pages in PDF files or in Google Books, see
WP:PAGELINKS. Do not link to any commercial booksellers, such as Amazon
; use |isbn= or |oclc= to provide neutral search links for books. Invalid URLs, including those containing spaces, will result in an error message.
access-date: Full date when the content pointed to by url was last verified to support the text in the article; do not wikilink; requires url; use the same format as other access and archive dates in the citations.
WP:CITEWEB. Access dates are not required for links to published research papers or published books. Note that access-date is the date that the URL was found to be working and to support the text being cited. See "Automatic date formatting" above for details about interaction with {{use dmy dates}} and {{use mdy dates}}. Can be hidden or styled
by registered editors. Alias: accessdate.

archive-url: The URL of an
Wikipedia:Using the Wayback Machine) and archive.today (see Help:Using archive.today
); requires archive-date and url. By default (overridden by |url-status=live) the archived link is displayed first, with the original link at the end. Alias: archiveurl.
archive-date: Archive-service snapshot-date; preceded in display by default text "archived from the original on". Use the same format as other access and archive dates in the citations. This does not necessarily have to be the same format that was used for citing publication dates.[date 1] Do not wikilink; templated dates are discouraged. See "Automatic date formatting" above for details about interaction with {{use dmy dates}} and {{use mdy dates}}. Alias: archivedate.

url-status: A control parameter to select one of |url= or |archive-url= to link |title=; requires url and archive-url. Use {{dead link}} to mark dead |url= when there is no |archive-url=.
Accepts multiple keywords:
dead – (default condition when |url-status= omitted or empty) selects |archive-url=

live – selects |url=; used when |url= is preemptively archived with |archive-url=

deviated – selects |archive-url=; used when |url= is still 'live' but no-longer supports the text in a Wikipedia article

unfit – selects |archive-url=; used when |url= links to vice (gambling, pornography), advertising, or other unsuitable page; links to |url= are suppressed in the rendering. If an entire domain is unsuitable, consider instead
WP:URLREQ

usurped – selects |archive-url=; used when the domain in |url= no longer serves its original intent, particularly when the domain has been (mis)appropriated by other entities, such as vice, reseller and advertising sites; links to |url= are suppressed in the rendering. Bot help is available at
WP:URLREQ

bot: unknown – Editors may encounter this value which is left behind by a bot that has visited the reference and wasn't able to determine the status of the url. The page will be automatically placed in Category:CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown when this value is present, and per the instructions in that category, editors manually evaluate the state of the URL and change the parameter value appropriately.

archive-format: File format of the work referred to by archive-url; for example: DOC or XLS; displayed in parentheses after the archive link. HTML is implied and should not be specified. PDF is auto-detected and should not be specified. Does not change the
alt text; thus, they do not add file format information for the visually impaired. (This is not a concern with PDF, because the auto-detection will add "(PDF)" as descriptive text.) See Using |format=

url-access: See Access indicators for url-holding parameters

format: File format of the work referred to by url; for example: DOC or XLS; displayed in parentheses after title. (For media format, use type.) HTML is implied and should not be specified. PDF is auto-detected and should not be specified. Does not change the
alt text; thus, they do not add file format information for the visually impaired. (This is not a concern with PDF, because the auto-detection will add "(PDF)" as descriptive text.) See Using |format=

URLs must begin with a supported
URI scheme. http:// and https:// will be supported by all browsers; however, ftp://, gopher://, irc://, ircs://, mailto: and news: may require a plug-in or an external application and should normally be avoided. IPv6
host-names are currently not supported.
If URLs in
percent-encoded
. For example, a space must be replaced by %20. To encode the URL, replace the following characters with:

Character space " ' < > [ ] { | }

Encoding %20 %22 %27 %3C %3E %5B %5D %7B %7C %7D

Single apostrophes do not need to be encoded; however, unencoded multiples will be parsed as italic or bold markup. Single curly closing braces also do not need to be encoded; however, an unencoded pair will be parsed as the double closing braces for the template transclusion.

^
MOS:DATEUNIFY
.

Anchor

ref: the citation's HTML anchor identifier, when different from its default. When set, |ref=ID generates an anchor with the given ID (the id= attribute in the citation's <cite id="ID"> HTML tag). Setting |ref=ID identifies the template as a target and allows
harv}} templates. Since April 2020, the parameter / keyword pair |ref=harv has no special meaning; this deprecated setting should not be used and may be removed from existing cs1|2 templates. To inhibit anchor ID creation, set |ref=none. Aliases: none. See Template:Citation/doc § Anchors for Harvard referencing templates
.

Identifiers

id: A
NCJ 122967
instead.

The following identifiers create links and are designed to accept a single value. Using multiple values or other text will break the link and/or invalidate the identifier. In general, the parameters should include only the variable part of the identifier, e.g. |rfc=822 or |pmc=345678.

arxiv: arXiv identifier; for example: |arxiv=hep-th/9205027 (before April 2007) or |arxiv=0706.0001 (April 2007 – December 2014) or |arxiv=1501.00001 (since January 2015). Do not include extraneous file extensions like ".pdf" or ".html". Aliases: eprint.

asin: Amazon Standard Identification Number; if first character of asin value is a digit, use isbn. Because this link favours one specific distributor, include it only if standard identifiers are not available. Example |asin=B00005N5PF. Aliases: ASIN.
asin-tld: ASIN top-level domain for Amazon sites other than the US; valid values: ae, au, br, ca, cn, de, es, fr, in, it, jp, mx, nl, pl, sa, se, sg, tr, uk. Aliases: none.

bibcode: bibcode; used by a number of astronomical data systems; for example: 1974AJ.....79..819H. Aliases: none.

biorxiv: bioRxiv id, as in the entire DOI (e.g. 10.1101/078733 for http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/10/01/078733 or https://doi.org/10.1101/078733; 10.1101/2020.07.24.220400 for https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.24.220400). Aliases: none.

citeseerx: CiteSeerX id, a string of digits and dots found in a CiteSeerX URL (e.g. 10.1.1.176.341 for http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.176.341). Aliases: none.

doi: Digital object identifier; for example: 10.1038/news070508-7. It is checked to ensure it begins with (10.). Aliases: DOI.
Supports accept-this-as-written markup to indicate valid DOIs using a non-standard format, see below.

doi-broken-date: Date a valid DOI was found to be non-working/inactive at https://doi.org. Use the same format as other dates in the article. Aliases: none.

eissn:
International Standard Serial Number for the electronic media of a serial publication; eight characters may be split into two groups of four using a hyphen, but not an en dash
or a space; example |eissn=1557-2986. Aliases: EISSN.
Supports accept-this-as-written markup to indicate valid eISSNs using a non-standard format, see below.

hdl: Handle System identifier for digital objects and other resources on the Internet; example |hdl=20.1000/100. Aliases: HDL.

isbn:
International Standard Book Number; for example: 978-0-8126-9593-9. (See Wikipedia:ISBN and ISBN § Overview
.) Hyphens in the ISBN are optional, but preferred. Use the ISBN actually printed on or in the book. Use the 13-digit ISBN – beginning with 978 or 979 – when it is available. If only a 10-digit ISBN is printed on or in the book, use it. ISBNs can be found on the page with the publisher's information – usually the back of the title page – or beneath the barcode as a number beginning with 978 or 979 (barcodes beginning with any other numbers are not ISBNs). For sources with the older 9-digit SBN system, use sbn. Do not convert a 10-digit ISBN to 13-digit by just adding the 978 prefix; the last digit is a calculated check digit and just making changes to the numbers will make the ISBN invalid. This parameter should hold only the ISBN without any additional characters. It is checked for length, invalid characters – anything other than numbers, spaces, and hyphens, with "X" permitted as the last character in a 10-digit ISBN – and the proper check digit. Aliases: ISBN.
Use the {{Format ISBN}} template within the parameter – in the form |isbn={{Format ISBN|9780812695939}} – if you are unsure of how any particular ISBN should be hyphenated, as the pattern varies by country and publisher.

Supports accept-this-as-written markup to indicate valid ISBNs using a non-standard format, see below.

ismn:
Hyphens
or spaces in the ISMN are optional. Use the ISMN actually printed on or in the work. This parameter should hold only the ISMN without any additional characters. It is checked for length, invalid characters – anything other than numbers, spaces, and hyphens – and the proper check digit. Aliases: ISMN.

issn:
International Standard Serial Number; eight characters may be split into two groups of four using a hyphen, but not an en dash
or a space; example |issn=2049-3630. Aliases: ISSN.
Supports accept-this-as-written markup to indicate valid ISSNs using a non-standard format, see below.

jfm: Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik
; do not include "JFM" in the value; example |jfm=53.0144.01. Aliases: JFM.

jstor: JSTOR reference number; for example: |jstor=3793107. Aliases: JSTOR.

lccn: Library of Congress Control Number. When present, alphabetic prefix characters are to be lower case and without a space; example |lccn=79-57364 or |lccn=2004042477 or |lccn=e09001178. Aliases: LCCN.

mr: Mathematical Reviews; example |mr=630583. Aliases: MR.

oclc:
OCLC Number for looking up publications in the WorldCat union catalog
; example |oclc=9355469. Aliases: OCLC.

ol: Open Library identifier; do not include "OL" in the value; example |ol=7030731M. Aliases: OL.

osti: Office of Scientific and Technical Information; example |osti=4367507. Aliases: OSTI.

pmc:
open repository
full-text of a journal article, e.g. |pmc=345678. Do not include "PMC" in the value. See also the pmid parameter, below; these are two different identifiers. Aliases: PMC.
pmc-embargo-date: Date that pmc goes live; if this date is in the future, then pmc is not linked until that date. Aliases: none.

pmid: PubMed; use unique identifier; example |pmid=17322060 See also the pmc parameter, above; these are two different identifiers. Aliases: PMID.

rfc: Request for Comments; example |rfc=3143. Aliases: RFC.

sbn:
Standard Book Number
; example |sbn=356-02201-3. Aliases: SBN.
Supports accept-this-as-written markup to indicate valid SBNs using a non-standard format, see below.

ssrn: Social Science Research Network; example |ssrn=1900856. Aliases: SSRN.

s2cid: Semantic Scholar corpus ID; example |s2cid=37220927. Aliases: S2CID.

zbl:
Zentralblatt MATH
; example |zbl=0472.53010 For zbMATH search results like JFM 35.0387.02 use |jfm=35.0387.02. Aliases: ZBL.

In very rare cases, valid identifiers (f.e., as actually printed on publications) do not follow their defined standard format or use non-conforming checksums, which would typically cause an error message to be shown. Do not alter them to match a different checksum. In order to suppress the error message, some identifiers (|doi=, |eissn=, |isbn=, |issn=, and |sbn=) support a special accept-this-as-written markup which can be applied to disable the error-checking (as |<param>=((<value>))). If the problem is down to a mere typographical error in a third-party source, correct the identifier value instead of overriding the error message.
For some identifiers, it is possible to specify the access status using the corresponding |<param>-access= parameter.
For {{cite journal}}, some identifiers (specifying free resources) will automatically be linked to the title when |url= and |title-link= are not used to specify a different link target. This behaviour can be overridden by one out of a number of special keywords for |title-link= to manually select a specific source (|title-link=pmc or |title-link=doi) for auto-linking or to disable the feature (|title-link=none).
It is not necessary to specify a URL to a link identical to a link also produced by an identifier. The |url= parameter (or |title-link=) can then be used for providing a direct deep link to the corresponding document or a convenience link to a resource that would not otherwise be obviously accessible.

Quote

quote: Relevant text quoted from the source. Displays enclosed in quotes. When supplied, the citation terminator (a period by default) is suppressed, so the quote must include terminating punctuation. If script-quote is defined, use quote to hold a
Romanization
(if available) of the text in script-quote.
script-quote: Original quotation for languages that do not use a Latin-based script (Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, etc.); not italicized, follows italicized Romanization defined in quote (if available). Alias: none. Must be prefixed with one of the supported language codes to help browsers properly display the script:
... |quote=Tōkyō tawā |script-quote=ja:東京タワー |trans-quote=Tokyo Tower ...

trans-quote: English translation of the quotation if the source quoted is in a foreign language. Displays in square brackets. Alias: none.

Editors

editor-last: surname of editor. Do not wikilink—use editor-link instead. Where the surname is usually written first—as in Chinese—or for corporate authors, simply use editor-last to include the same format as the source. Aliases: editor-last1, editor1-last, editor-surname, editor-surname1, editor1-surname, editor, editor1.
editor: This parameter is used to hold the complete name of a single editor (first and last), or the name of an editorial committee. This parameter should never hold the names of more than one editor. Supports accept-this-as-written markup.

editor-first: given or first names of editor, including title(s); example: Firstname Middlename or Firstname M. or Dr. Firstname M., Sr. Do not wikilink—use editor-link instead. Aliases: editor-first1, editor1-first, editor-given, editor-given1, editor1-given.

OR: for multiple editors, use editor-last1, editor-first1 through editor-lastn, editor-firstn (Aliases: editorn-last, editor-surnamen or editorn-surname; editorn-first, editor-givenn or editorn-given; editorn). For an individual editor plus an institutional editor, you can use |editor-first1=...|editor-last1=... |editor2=....

editor-link: title of existing Wikipedia article about the editor—not the editor's website; do not wikilink. Aliases: editor-link1.

OR: for multiple editors, use editor-link1 through editor-linkn (alias editorn-link).

name-list-style: accepts a limited list of keywords as value; when set to amp, ampersand, or &, inserts an ampersand between the last two names in a name list; when set to and, inserts the conjunction 'and' between the last two names of a name list; when set to vancdisplays name lists in
Vancouver style
when the lists use the last/first forms of name parameters.

veditors: comma separated list of editor names in
Vancouver style; enclose corporate or institutional names in doubled parentheses
. End with etal if appropriate:
|veditors=Smythe JB, ((Megabux Corp.)), etal

editor-linkn and editor-maskn may be used for the individual names in |veditors=, as described above

Display:
Use display-editors to control the length of the displayed editor name list and to specify when "et al." is included.

If authors: Authors are first, followed by the included work, then "In" and the editors, then the main work.

If no authors: Editors appear before the included work; a single editor is followed by "ed."; multiple editors are followed by "eds."

Display options

mode: Sets element separator, default terminal punctuation, and certain capitalization according to the value provided. For |mode=cs1, element separator and terminal punctuation is a period (.); where appropriate, initial letters of certain words are capitalized ('Retrieved...'). For |mode=cs2, element separator is a comma (,); terminal punctuation is omitted; where appropriate, initial letters of certain words are not capitalized ('retrieved...'). These styles correspond to Citation Style 1 and Citation Style 2 respectively. To override default terminal punctuation use postscript.

author-mask:

contributor-mask:

editor-mask:

interviewer-mask:

subject-mask:

translator-mask:
Replaces the name of the (first) author with em dashes or text. Set <name>-mask to a numeric value n to set the dash n em spaces wide; set <name>-mask to a text value to display the text without a trailing author separator; for example, "with". The numeric value 0 is a special case to be used in conjunction with <name>-link—in this case, the value of <name>-link will be used as (linked) text. In either case, you must still include the values for all names for metadata purposes. Primarily intended for use with bibliographies or bibliography styles where multiple works by a single author are listed sequentially such as shortened footnotes. Do not use in a list generated by {{reflist}}, <references /> or similar as there is no control of the order in which references are displayed. Mask parameters can take an enumerator in the name of the parameter (e.g. |authorn-mask=) to apply the mask to a specific name.

display-authors:

display-contributors:

display-editors:

display-interviewers:

display-subjects:

display-translators:
Controls the number of author (or other kind of contributor) names that are displayed. By default, all authors are displayed. To change the displayed number of names, set the parameter to the desired number. For example, |display-authors=2 will display only the first two authors in a citation (and not affect the display of the other kinds of contributors). |display-authors=0 is a special case suppressing the display of all authors including the et al. |display-authors=etal displays all authors in the list followed by et al. Aliases: none.

postscript: Controls the closing punctuation for a citation; defaults to a period (.); for no terminating punctuation, specify |postscript=none – leaving |postscript= empty is the same as omitting it, but is ambiguous. Additional text, or templates that render more than a single terminating punctuation character, will generate a maintenance message. |postscript= is ignored if quote is defined.

Subscription or registration required

Citations of online sources that require registration or a subscription are acceptable in Wikipedia as documented in
verifying claims in articles
.
Four access levels can be used:

access indicator for named identifiers:
free: the source is free to read for anyone

access indicators for url-holding parameters:
registration: a free registration with the provider is required to access the source, even if a limited preview, abstract or review may still be available without registration

limited: free access is subject to limited trial and a subscription is normally required

subscription: the source is only accessible via a paid subscription with the provider of the source ("paywall")

As there are often multiple external links with different access levels in the same citation, each value is attributed to a specific external link.

Access indicators for url-holding parameters

Shortcut
WP:URLACCESS

Main page:
WP:CONLINK

Online sources linked by |url=, |article-url=, |chapter-url=, |contribution-url=, |entry-url=, |map-url=, and |section-url= are presumed to be free-to-read. When they are not free-to-read, editors should mark those sources with the matching access-indicator parameter so that an appropriate icon is included in the rendered citation. Because the sources linked by these URL-holding parameters are presumed to be free-to-read, they are not marked as free. If the registration/limited/subscription access to the source goes dead and is no longer available, then remove the access-indicator parameter and add |archive-url= and |archive-date= values if possible.

URL-holding and access-indicator parameters
URL Access Allowed keywords

|url= |url-access= registration
limited
subscription

|article-url= |article-url-access=

|chapter-url= |chapter-url-access=

|contribution-url= |contribution-url-access=

|entry-url= |entry-url-access=

|map-url= |map-url-access=

|section-url= |section-url-access=

For example, this cites a web page that requires registration but not subscription:

{{cite web |url=https://example.com/nifty_data.php |url-access=registration |date=2021-04-15 |title=Nifty example data}}

which renders as:

"Nifty example data". 2021-04-15.

Access indicator for named identifiers

Links inserted by named identifiers are presumed to lie behind a paywall or registration barrier – exceptions listed below. When they are free-to-read, editors should mark those sources with the matching access-indicator parameter so that an appropriate icon is included in the rendered citation. When the sources linked by these named-identifier parameters are not presumed to carry a free-to-read full text (for instance because they're just abstracting services), they may not be marked as limited, registration, or subscription.

Named-identifier and access-indicator parameters
Identifier Access Allowed keywords

|bibcode= |bibcode-access= free

|doi= |doi-access=

|hdl= |hdl-access=

|jstor= |jstor-access=

|ol= |ol-access=

|osti= |osti-access=

|ssrn= |ssrn-access=

|s2cid= |s2cid-access=

Some named-identifiers are always free-to-read. For those named identifiers there are no access-indicator parameters; the access level is automatically indicated by the template. These named identifiers are:

|arxiv=

|biorxiv=

|citeseerx=

|medrxiv=

|pmc=

|rfc=

For embargoed pmc that will become available in the future, see pmc-embargo-date.

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TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Cite sign in articles based on its TemplateData.
TemplateData for Cite sign

This template is used to create citations for signs, plaques, and other non-video visuals, using the provided source information (e.g. author, publication, date) and various formatting options.
Template parameters[Edit template data]
This template has custom formatting.
Parameter Description Type Status
URL url
The URL of the online location where the text of the publication can be found
String optional
Source title title
The title of the source page on the website; displays in quotes
String required
Last name last last1 author author1
The surname of the author; don't wikilink, use 'author-link'.
Line optional
First name first first1
Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the author; don't wikilink, use 'author-link'.
Line optional
Author link author-link author-link1 author1-link
Title of existing Wikipedia article about the author; can suffix with a numeral to add additional authors
Page name optional
Last name last2 author2
The surname of the second author; don't wikilink, use 'author-link2'.
Line optional
First name first2
Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the second author; don't wikilink.
Line optional
Author link author-link2 author2-link
Title of existing Wikipedia article about the second author.
Page name optional
Source date date
Full date of the source; do not wikilink
String required
Work work
Name of the source periodical; may be wikilinked; displays in italics; alias of 'newspaper', 'journal', 'magazine', 'periodical'
String optional
Publisher publisher
Name of the publisher; displays after title
String optional
Newspaper newspaper
Name of the newspaper; displays after title
String optional
URL access date access-date
The full date when the original URL was accessed; do not wikilink
String optional
Others others
Used to record other contributions to the work, such as 'Illustrated by John Smith' or 'Translated by John Smith'
String optional
Year of publication year
Year of the source being referenced; use 'date' instead, if month and day are also known
String optional
Original date orig-date
Original date of publication; provide specifics
String optional
Editor last name editor-last
The surname of the editor; don't wikilink, use 'editor-link'; can suffix with a numeral to add additional editors; alias of 'editor1-last', 'editor', and 'editors'
Line optional
Editor first name editor-first
Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the editor; don't wikilink, use 'editor-link'; can suffix with a numeral to add additional editors; alias of 'editor1-first'
Line optional
Editor link editor-link
Title of existing Wikipedia article about the editor; can suffix with a numeral to add additional editors; alias of 'editor1-link'
Page name optional
Issue issue
Issue identifier when the source is part of a series that is published periodically
String optional
Department department
Department within the periodical
String optional
Location of publication place location
Geographical place of publication; usually not wikilinked; omit when the publication name includes place
String optional
Place of publication publication-place
Publication place shows after title; if 'place' or 'location' are also given, they are displayed before the title prefixed with 'written at'
String optional
Publication date publication-date
Date of publication when different from the date the work was written; do not wikilink
String optional
Edition edition
When the publication has more than one edition; for example: '2nd', 'Revised' etc.; suffixed with ' ed.'
String optional
Volume volume
For one publication published in several volumes
String optional
Page page
Page in the source that supports the content; displays after 'p.'
String optional
Pages pages
Pages in the source that support the content (not an indication of the number of pages in the source; displays after 'pp.'
String optional
No pp no-pp
Set to 'y' to suppress the 'p.' or 'pp.' display with 'page' or 'pages' when inappropriate (such as 'Front cover')
String optional
At at
May be used instead of 'page' or 'pages' where a page number is inappropriate or insufficient
String optional
Language language
The language in which the source is written, if not English; use the full language name; do not use icons or templates
String optional
Translated title trans-title
An English language title, if the source cited is in a foreign language; 'language' is recommended
String optional
Type type
Additional information about the media type of the source; format in sentence case
String optional
Format format
Format of the work referred to by 'url'; examples: PDF, DOC, XLS; do not specify HTML
String optional
arXiv identifier arxiv
An identifier for arXive electronic preprints of scientific papers
String optional
ASIN asin
Amazon Standard Identification Number; 10 characters
String optional
ASIN TLD asin-tld
ASIN top-level domain for Amazon sites other than the US
String optional
Bibcode bibcode
Bibliographic Reference Code (REFCODE); 19 characters
String optional
DOI doi
Digital Object Identifier; begins with '10.'
String optional
DOI broken date doi-broken-date
The date that the DOI was determined to be broken
String optional
ISBN isbn
International Standard Book Number; use the 13-digit ISBN where possible
String optional
ISSN issn
International Standard Serial Number; 8 characters; may be split into two groups of four using a hyphen
String optional
jfm code jfm
Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik classification code
String optional
JSTOR jstor
JSTOR identifier
String optional
LCCN lccn
Library of Congress Control Number
String optional
MR mr
Mathematical Reviews identifier
String optional
OCLC oclc
Online Computer Library Center number
String optional
OL ol
Open Library identifier
String optional
OSTI osti
Office of Scientific and Technical Information identifier
String optional
PMC pmc
PubMed Center article number
String optional
PMID pmid
PubMed Unique Identifier
String optional
RFC rfc
Request for Comments number
String optional
SSRN ssrn
Social Science Research Network
String optional
Zbl zbl
Zentralblatt MATH journal identifier
String optional
id id
A unique identifier used where none of the specialized ones are applicable
String optional
Archive URL archive-url
The URL of an archived copy of a web page, if or in case the URL becomes unavailable; requires 'archivedate'
String optional
Archive date archive-date
Date when the original URL was archived; do not wikilink
String optional
URL status url-status
If set to 'live', the title display is adjusted; useful for when the URL is archived preemptively but still live. Set to "dead" or 'usurped' for broken links. Entering 'unfit' or 'usurped' makes the original link not appear at all.
Default
dead
String optional
Quote quote
Relevant text quoted from the source; displays last, enclosed in quotes; needs to include terminating punctuation
String optional
Ref ref
An anchor identifier; can be made the target of wikilinks to full references; special value 'harv' generates an anchor suitable for the harv template
String optional
Postscript postscript
The closing punctuation for the citation; ignored if 'quote' is defined
Default
.
String optional
Last name last3 author3
The surname of the third author; don't wikilink, use 'author-link3'.
Line optional
First name first3
Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the third author; don't wikilink.
Line optional
Author link author-link3 author3-link
Title of existing Wikipedia article about the third author.
Page name optional
Last name last4 author4
The surname of the forth author; don't wikilink, use 'author-link4'.
Line optional
First name first4
Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the forth author; don't wikilink.
Line optional
Author link author-link4 author4-link
Title of existing Wikipedia article about the forth author.
Page name optional
Last name last5 author5
The surname of the fifth author; don't wikilink, use 'author-link5'.
Line optional
First name first5
Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the fifth author; don't wikilink.
Line optional
Author link author-link5 author5-link
Title of existing Wikipedia article about the sixth author.
Page name optional
Last name last6 author6
The surname of the sixth author; don't wikilink, use 'author-link6'.
Line optional
First name first6
Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the sixth author; don't wikilink.
Line optional
Author link author-link6 author6-link
Title of existing Wikipedia article about the sixth author.
Page name optional
Last name last7 author7
The surname of the seventh author; don't wikilink, use 'author-link7'.
Line optional
First name first7
Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the seventh author; don't wikilink.
Line optional
Author link author-link7 author7-link
Title of existing Wikipedia article about the seventh author.
Page name optional
Last name last8 author8
The surname of the eighth author; don't wikilink, use 'author-link8'.
Line optional
First name first8
Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the eighth author; don't wikilink.
Line optional
Author link author-link8 author8-link
Title of existing Wikipedia article about the eighth author.
Page name optional
Last name last9 author9
The surname of the ninth author; don't wikilink, use 'author-link9'.
Line optional
First name first9
Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the ninth author; don't wikilink.
Line optional
Author link author-link9 author9-link
Title of existing Wikipedia article about the ninth author.
Page name optional
Author mask author-mask
Replaces the name of the first author with em dashes or text; set to a numeric value 'n' to set the dash 'n' em spaces wide; set to a text value to display the text without a trailing author separator; for example, 'with' instead
String optional
Display authors display-authors
number of authors to display before 'et al.' is used; default is to do so after 8 of 9 are listed
Default
8
Number optional
Name list style name-list-style
Set to 'amp' or 'and' to change the separator between the last two names of the name list to ' & ' or ' and ', respectively. Set to 'vanc' to display name lists in Vancouver style.
String optional

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