Template:Cite journal/TemplateData
This template formats a citation to an article in a magazine or journal, using the provided source information (e.g. journal name, author, title, issue, URL) and various formatting options.
Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
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Last name | last author author1 authors last1 | The surname of the author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink'; can suffix with a numeral to add additional authors | Line | suggested |
First name | first first1 | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink'; can suffix with a numeral to add additional authors | Line | suggested |
Author link | author-link authorlink | Title of existing Wikipedia article about the author; can suffix with a numeral to add additional authors | Page name | optional |
Last name 2 | last2 author2 | The surname of the second author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink2'. | Line | optional |
First name 2 | first2 | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the second author; don't wikilink. | Line | optional |
Author link 2 | author-link2 author2-link authorlink2 | Title of existing Wikipedia article about the second author. | Page name | optional |
Last name 3 | last3 author3 | The surname of the third author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink3'. | Line | optional |
First name 3 | first3 | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the third author; don't wikilink. | Line | optional |
Author link 3 | author-link3 author3-link authorlink3 | Title of existing Wikipedia article about the third author. | Page name | optional |
Last name 4 | last4 author4 | The surname of the forth author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink4'. | Line | optional |
First name 4 | first4 | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the forth author; don't wikilink. | Line | optional |
Author link 4 | author-link4 author4-link authorlink4 | Title of existing Wikipedia article about the forth author. | Page name | optional |
Last name 5 | last5 author5 | The surname of the fifth author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink5'. | Line | optional |
First name 5 | first5 | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the fifth author; don't wikilink. | Line | optional |
Author link 5 | author-link5 author5-link authorlink5 | Title of existing Wikipedia article about the fifth author. | Page name | optional |
Last name 6 | last6 author6 | The surname of the sixth author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink6'. | Line | optional |
First name 6 | first6 | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the sixth author; don't wikilink. | Line | optional |
Author link 6 | author-link6 author6-link authorlink6 | Title of existing Wikipedia article about the sixth author. | Page name | optional |
Last name 7 | last7 author7 | The surname of the seventh author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink7'. | Line | optional |
First name 7 | first7 | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the seventh author; don't wikilink. | Line | optional |
Author link 7 | author-link7 author7-link authorlink7 | Title of existing Wikipedia article about the seventh author. | Page name | optional |
Last name 8 | last8 author8 | The surname of the eighth author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink8'. | Line | optional |
First name 8 | first8 | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the eighth author; don't wikilink. | Line | optional |
Author link 8 | author-link8 author8-link authorlink8 | Title of existing Wikipedia article about the eighth author. | Page name | optional |
Last name 9 | last9 author9 | The surname of the ninth author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink9'. If nine authors are defined, then only eight will show and 'et al.' will show in place of the last author. | Line | optional |
First name 9 | first9 | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the ninth author; don't wikilink. | Line | optional |
Author link 9 | author-link9 author9-link authorlink9 | Title of existing Wikipedia article about the ninth author. | Page name | optional |
Last name 10 | last10 author10 | The surname of the tenth author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink9'. If ten authors are defined, then only eight will show and 'et al.' will show in place of the last two authors. | Line | optional |
First name 10 | first10 | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the tenth author; don't wikilink. | Line | optional |
Last name 11 | last11 author11 | The surname of the 11th author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink9'. If more than nine authors are defined, then only eight will show and 'et al.' will show in place of the remaining authors. | Line | optional |
First name 11 | first11 | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the 11th author; don't wikilink. | Line | optional |
Display authors | displayauthors display-authors | number of authors to display before 'et al.' is used; | Number | 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 |
Last author ampersand | last-author-amp lastauthoramp | When set to any value, changes the separator between the last two names of the author list to 'space ampersand space' | Boolean | optional |
Author separator | author-separator | Changes the separator between authors; defaults to a semicolon and space; a space must be encoded as  
| Line | optional |
Author name separator | author-name-separator | Changes the separator between last and first names; defaults to a comma and space; a space must be encoded as  
| Line | optional |
Vancouver style authors | vauthors | comma-separated list of author names in Vancouver style; enclose corporate or institutional author names in doubled parentheses | Line | optional |
Source date | date | Date of the source; do not wikilink. As listed in the publication | Date | suggested |
Year of publication | year | Year of the source being referenced; recommended only when date parameter format is YYYY-MM-DD and a CITEREF disambiguator is needed | Number | optional |
Original year | orig-year origyear | Original year of publication; provide specifics | Number | optional |
Editor last name | editor-last editor1-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' | Line | optional |
Editor first name | editor-first editor1-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 |
Editor last name 2 | editor2-last editor2 | The surname of the second editor; don't wikilink, use 'editor2-link'. | Line | optional |
Editor first name 2 | editor2-first | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the second editor; don't wikilink. | Line | optional |
Editor link 2 | editor2-link editor2link editorlink2 | Title of existing Wikipedia article about the second editor. | Page name | optional |
Editor last name 3 | editor3-last editor3 | The surname of the third editor; don't wikilink, use 'editor3-link'. | Line | optional |
Editor first name 3 | editor3-first | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the third editor; don't wikilink. | Line | optional |
Editor link 3 | editor3-link editor3link editorlink3 | Title of existing Wikipedia article about the third editor. | Page name | optional |
Editor last name 4 | editor4-last editor4 | The surname of the fourth editor; don't wikilink, use 'editor4-link'. | Line | optional |
Editor first name 4 | editor4-first | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the fourth editor; don't wikilink. | Line | optional |
Editor link 4 | editor4-link editor4link editorlink4 | Title of existing Wikipedia article about the fourth editor. | Page name | optional |
Editor last name 5 | editor5-last editor5 | The surname of the fifth editor; don't wikilink, use 'editor5-link'. | Line | optional |
Editor first name 5 | editor5-first | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the fifth editor; don't wikilink. | Line | optional |
Editor link 5 | editor5-link editor5link editorlink5 | Title of existing Wikipedia article about the fifth editor. | Page name | optional |
Editor last name 6 | editor6-last editor6 | The surname of the sixth editor; don't wikilink, use 'editor6-link'. | Line | optional |
Editor first name 6 | editor6-first | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the sixth editor; don't wikilink. | Line | optional |
Editor link 6 | editor6-link editor6link editorlink6 | Title of existing Wikipedia article about the sixth editor. | Page name | optional |
Editor last name 7 | editor7-last editor7 | The surname of the seventh editor; don't wikilink, use 'editor7-link'. | Line | optional |
Editor first name 7 | editor7-first | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the seventh editor; don't wikilink. | Line | optional |
Editor link 7 | editor7-link editor7link editorlink7 | Title of existing Wikipedia article about the seventh editor. | Page name | optional |
Editor last name 8 | editor8-last editor8 | The surname of the eighth editor; don't wikilink, use 'editor8-link'. | Line | optional |
Editor first name 8 | editor8-first | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the eighth editor; don't wikilink. | Line | optional |
Editor link 8 | editor8-link editor8link editorlink8 | Title of existing Wikipedia article about the eighth editor. | Page name | optional |
Editor last name 9 | editor9-last editor9 | The surname of the ninth editor; don't wikilink, use 'editor9-link'. | Line | optional |
Editor first name 9 | editor9-first | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the ninth editor; don't wikilink. | Line | optional |
Editor link 9 | editor9-link editor9link editorlink9 | Title of existing Wikipedia article about the ninth editor. | Page name | optional |
Others | others | Used to record other contributions to the work, such as 'Illustrated by John Smith' or 'Translated by John Smith' | Content | optional |
Title | title | The title of the article; can be wikilinked to an existing Wikipedia article or url may be used to add an external link, but not both. Displays in quotes. | Content | required |
Script title | script-title | For titles in languages that do not use a Latin-based alphabet (Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, etc). Prefix with two-character ISO639-1 language code followed by a colon. For Japanese use: |script-title=ja:... | Line | optional |
Translated title | trans-title | An English language title, if the source cited is in a foreign language; 'language' is recommended | Content | optional |
URL | url URL | The URL of the online location where the text of the publication can be found. Requires schemes of the type "http://..." or maybe even the protocol relative scheme "//..."
| Line | suggested |
URL status | url-status | If set to 'live', the title displays with the URL linked; if set to 'dead', the title displays with the archive URL linked | Line | optional |
Format | format | Format of the work referred to by 'url' ('url' is required when using 'format'); examples: PDF, DOC, XLS; do not specify HTML | Content | optional |
Department | department | Department within the periodical | String | optional |
Journal | journal | Name of the source journal; may be wikilinked; displays in italics; alias of 'work' | Content | required |
Chapter | chapter | The chapter heading of the source | String | optional |
Type | type | Additional information about the media type of the source; format in sentence case | Content | optional |
Series | series version | Series identifier when the source is part of a series, such as a book series or a journal; alias of 'version' | Content | 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 | Content | optional |
Edition | edition | When the publication has more than one edition; for example: '2nd', 'Revised' etc.; suffixed with ' ed.' | Line | optional |
Location of publication | location | Geographical place of publication; usually not wikilinked; omit when the publication name includes place; alias of 'place' | String | optional |
Publisher | publisher | Name of the publisher; displays after title | Content | 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' | Content | optional |
Publication date | publication-date | Date of publication when different from the date the work was written; do not wikilink | Date | optional |
Volume | volume | For one publication published in several volumes | Line | suggested |
Issue | issue | Issue identifier when the source is part of a series that is published periodically | Line | optional |
Page | page | Page in the source that supports the content; displays after 'p.' | Line | 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.' | Line | suggested |
At | at | May be used instead of 'page' or 'pages' where a page number is inappropriate or insufficient | Line | optional |
No pp | nopp | Set to 'y' to suppress the 'p.' or 'pp.' display with 'page' or 'pages' when inappropriate (such as 'Front cover') | Line | optional |
arXiv identifier | arxiv | An identifier for arXive electronic preprints of scientific papers | Line | optional |
ASIN | asin | Amazon Standard Identification Number; 10 characters | Line | optional |
ASIN TLD | asin-tld | ASIN top-level domain for Amazon sites other than the US | Line | optional |
Bibcode | bibcode | Bibliographic Reference Code (REFCODE); 19 characters | Line | optional |
biorXiv | biorxiv | biorXiv identifier; 6 digits | Line | optional |
CiteSeerX | citeseerx | CiteSeerX identifier; found after the 'doi=' query parameter | Line | 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 | Date | optional |
ISBN | isbn | International Standard Book Number; use the 13-digit ISBN where possible | Line | optional |
ISSN | issn | International Standard Serial Number (print); 8 characters; usually split into two groups of four using a hyphen | Line | optional |
eISSN | eissn | International Standard Serial Number (online); 8 characters; usually split into two groups of four using a hyphen | Line | optional |
jfm code | jfm | Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik classification code | Line | optional |
JSTOR | jstor | JSTOR identifier | Line | optional |
LCCN | lccn | Library of Congress Control Number | Line | optional |
MR | mr | Mathematical Reviews identifier | Line | optional |
OCLC | oclc | Online Computer Library Center number | Number | optional |
OL | ol | Open Library identifier | Line | optional |
OSTI | osti | Office of Scientific and Technical Information identifier | Line | optional |
PMC | pmc | PubMed Center article number | Number | optional |
PMID | pmid | PubMed Unique Identifier | Line | optional |
RFC | rfc | Request for Comments number | Number | optional |
SSRN | ssrn | Social Science Research Network | Line | optional |
Zbl | zbl | Zentralblatt MATH journal identifier | Line | optional |
id | id | A unique identifier used where none of the specialized ones are applicable | Line | optional |
URL access level | url-access | Classification of the access restrictions on the URL ('registration', 'subscription' or 'limited') | String | optional |
Archive URL | archive-url archiveurl | The URL of an archived copy of a web page, if or in case the URL becomes unavailable; requires 'archivedate' | Line | optional |
Archive date | archive-date archivedate | Date when the original URL was archived; do not wikilink | Date | optional |
URL access date | access-date accessdate | The full date when the original URL was accessed; do not wikilink | Date | optional |
Registration | registration | If the reference requires registration, type 'yes' to notify the reader. | String | optional |
Subscription | subscription | If the reference requires a subscription, type 'yes' to notify the reader. | String | optional |
Lay summary URL | lay-url layurl laysummary | URL link to a non-technical summary or review of the source; alias of 'laysummary' | Line | optional |
Lay source | lay-source laysource | Name of the source of the laysummary; displays in italics, preceded by an en dash | String | optional |
Lay date | lay-date laydate | Date of the summary; displays in parentheses | Date | optional |
Quote | quote | Relevant text quoted from the source; displays last, enclosed in quotes; must include terminating punctuation | Content | optional |
Postscript | postscript | The closing punctuation for the citation; ignored if 'quote' is defined; to suppress use reserved keyword 'none'
| Line | 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 and sfn templates | Line | optional |
Separator | separator | The punctuation used to separate lists of authors, editors, etc.; a space must be encoded as   to suppress use reserved keyword 'none'
| Line | optional |
Content deliverer (i.e. Database) | via | Provider of the article (not the publisher), usually an aggregator of journal articles or a repository
| String | suggested |
Bibcode access level | bibcode-access | If the full text is available from ADS via this Bibcode, type 'free'. | String | optional |
DOI access level | doi-access | If the full text is free to read via the DOI, type 'free'. | String | optional |
HDL access level | hdl-access | If the full text is free to read via the HDL, type 'free'. | String | optional |
Jstor access level | jstor-access | If the full text is free to read on Jstor, type 'free'. | String | optional |
OpenLibrary access level | ol-access | If the full text is free to read on OpenLibrary, type 'free'. | String | optional |
HDL access level | osti-access | If the full text is free to read on OSTI, type 'free'. | String | optional |