Template:Wikicite/doc

{{Wikicite}} creates an anchor, for use in a "References" section for books, journals, web references, etc. The anchor should be linked-to in the body of the article.

Usage

Copy-'n'-paste.

{{wikicite | id = | reference = }}

or, alternatively (but not equivalently – see below)

{{wikicite | ref = | reference = }}

The first parameter is an alias for |reference=. The |id= or |ref= parameters are alternative unique identifiers used for the reference link on the page, compatible with some other reference templates. If both |id= and |ref= are provided, |id= is ignored. There are two differences between these:

• |id= automatically prefixes the link anchor with "Reference-", whereas |ref= does not
• |id= encloses the link anchor in double quotes, so these must not be provided by the editor; but if using |ref=, the specified content for this parameter 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., a ref anchor of Von Autor-2006 must be specified as |ref="Von Autor-2006")

Thus, these two forms

{{wikicite | id = Anchor 1 | reference = Reference text }}
{{wikicite | ref = "Reference-Anchor 1" | reference = Reference text }}

produce identical results.

The |reference= parameter is the actual reference text. It may be plain text, formatted text, or one of the citation templates.

Examples

Recommended formats.

Markup	Renders as
According to Atwood, blah blah.<ref>[[#Atwood-2003|Atwood (2003)]], p. 29.</ref> == Notes == {{reflist}} == References == * {{wikicite | ref = Atwood-2003 | reference = Atwood, Margaret (2003). ''Oryx and Crake'', Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.}}	According to Atwood, blah blah. Notes References Atwood, Margaret (2003). Oryx and Crake, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.
According to Atwood, blah blah.<ref>[[#Reference-Atwood-2003|Atwood (2003)]], p. 29.</ref> == Notes == {{reflist}} == References == * {{wikicite | id = Atwood-2003 | reference = Atwood, Margaret (2003). ''Oryx and Crake'', Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.}}	According to Atwood, blah blah. Notes References Atwood, Margaret (2003). Oryx and Crake, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.
According to Atwood, blah blah.{{sfn|Atwood|2003|p=29}} == Notes == {{reflist}} == References == * {{wikicite | ref = {{sfnRef|Atwood|2003}} | reference = Atwood, Margaret (2003). ''Oryx and Crake'', Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.}}	According to Atwood, blah blah. Notes References Atwood, Margaret (2003). Oryx and Crake, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.

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 with many other templates' in-text citation links (any id which starts with "Reference-")
• No conditionals
• No CSS hacks

Alternatives

Note that identical behavior can be achieved using the more standard {{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 = 978-0-7710-0868-9 }}

See also

• {{Citation}}
• {{Citeref}}, alternative method to create links to citations
• Category:Citation templates
• BattleTechWiki:Citing sources