- This documentation is imported from Template:Cite web/doc
This template is used to cite sources in Wikipedia. It is specifically for web sites which are not news sources. It provides lower case parameters only.
Usage
{{cite web | url = | title = | accessdate = | accessmonthday = | accessyear = | author = | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | date = | year = | month = | format = | work = | publisher = | page = | pages = | language = | archiveurl = | archivedate = }}
{{cite web|url= |title= |accessdate= |accessmonthday= |accessyear= |author= |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= |month= |format= |work= |publisher= |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate=}}
Required parameters
- url: URL of online item.
- title: Title of online item.
- One of the two date format parameters:
- accessdate: Full date when item was accessed. Must not be wikilinked.
- accessmonthday and accessyear: Month and day when item was accessed, e.g. May 10, and year when item was accessed, e.g. 2005. Will not be wikilinked.
Optional parameters
- author: Author.
- last works with first to produce
last, first
. - authorlink works either with author or with last & first to link to the appropriate article.
- coauthors: allows additional authors.
- last works with first to produce
- date: Full date of publication, preferably in ISO 8601 YYYY-MM-DD format, e.g. 2006-02-17. May be wikilinked.
- OR: year: Year of publication, and month: Name of the month of publication. If you also have the day, use date instead. Must not be wikilinked.
- format: Format, e.g. PDF. HTML implied if not specified.
- work: If this item is part of a larger work, name of that work.
- publisher: Publisher, if any.
- pages: Page, if any, especially if PDF format. Do not use in addition to pages.
- pages: Pages, if any, especially if PDF format. Do not use in addition to page.
- language: language of publication.
- archiveurl: URL of the archive location of the item (requires archivedate).
- archivedate: Date when the item was archived (requires archiveurl), in ISO 8601 YYYY-MM-DD format, e.g. 2006-02-17. Will not be wikilinked.