Category talk:Citation templates

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[edit] Logic templates on WP:AUM

See the discussion on Wikipedia_talk:Avoid_using_meta-templates#Logic_templates. – Adrian | Talk 15:54, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Footnote templates

What is so special about {{Note}}, {{Ref}}, {{Note label}} and {{Ref label}} that they cannot be added? —Phil | Talk 12:08, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

  • They've been deprecated by the cite.php system, which is what you are using when you type %lt;ref> to denote references. Trust me; cite.php is much better. --EngineerScotty 21:17, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] cite blog

copied from User talk:Ligulem:

Hey, I noticed you're doing some work on citation templates, particularly {{cite news}}. Has anyone thought about a possible {{cite blog}}? It would need, as parameters, the date, a permalink URL, the name of the blog, the title of the post, and the name of the poster. What do you think? --Cyde Weys 02:05, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

No problem. If you want me to create such a template, I can do it for you. Could you give some detailed examples for the wiki-source that the template should produce? --Ligulem 07:16, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tech report template

I would like to have a citation template for technical reports, similar to the @TechReport citation type in bibtex:

  • Require fields: author, title, institution, year
  • Optional fields: type, number, address, month (or date), (note?)

I couldn't find something like this among the current templates. --KYN 21:47, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

What is a tech report? Where would that be used? Could you provide some examples, I mean template call → wiki code examples? (Example for an example: {{cite book|title=The book}} → The book.) --Ligulem 21:57, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Example:

{{cite techreport
 | author=A. U. Thor
 | title=How I solved the problem
 | institution=Department of Problem Solutions, University of Somewhere
 | year=2006 (<- or date)
 | number=UoS-TechRep-2006-1234
 | address=Box 123, 456 Somewhere
 }}

should produce something like

A. U. Thor (2006). How I solved the problem, Technical Report UoS-TechRep-2006-1234, Department of Problem Solutions, University of Somewhere, Box 123, 456 Somewhere

The important thing is that a techincal report is published by an organisation like a university, research institute, or company, that it has a number generated by that organisation, and that you may need the physical address to that organisation to order a copy of the report. --KYN 22:46, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Hmm, just realized that the idea of a technical report is somewhat restricted, this is the notation used in LaTex's bibtex citation system. Maybe "report" instead of "techreport" is better? --KYN 22:51, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Regular magazines (not journals?)

Is there a template which is designed for regular magazines (Time, Newsweek, etc.)? I have tried using {{cite journal}} but the results often come out looking ... strange. In particular, the journal template only has fields for year and month, where a newsmagazine may have several issues coming out in a single month. -- Antaeus Feldspar 22:07, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

You can always use the date field in the {{cite journal}} template rather than month and year. That way you can put in the whole date. The example from the talk page is:
{{cite journal | last=Smith | first=Joseph III | title=Last Testimony of Sister Emma | journal=The Saints' Herald | volume=26 | issue=19 | date=[[October 1]], [[1879]] | pages=289 | url=http://www.lavazone2.com/dbroadhu/IL/sain1872.htm#100179 | accessdate=2006-03-23 }}
which produces:
Smith, Joseph III (October 1, 1879). "Last Testimony of Sister Emma". The Saints' Herald 26 (19): 289. Retrieved on 2006-03-23.
Is that different from what you were looking for? You can also try {{cite news}}. Neil916 15:30, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
Hmmmm, okay. That might solve the problems I was having. I was having trouble reading the syntax on Template talk:cite journal and didn't realize that "date" could be used instead of "month" and "year". I'll try this. -- Antaeus Feldspar 14:40, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Letters?

What do we use to cite letters that are part of a special collections department of a university, etc.? -plange 02:41, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cite album-notes

Sometimes album notes are great references, so I have created a template for those. Feel free to modify.--Cerejota 02:14, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Federal Register

Is there a template for citing the Federal Register? Several other templates exist for citing laws, US laws in particular, but I didn't see one for this. --EngineerScotty 21:19, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Patents?

Looking for a structure for citing patents.... Vonfraginoff 16:23, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Speeches

I think a speech citation template would be really useful SirGrant 01:08, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cite archives

What would be best to cite archives of historical facts published by a government, such as past leaders of the opposition in Canada? So far I've been using Cite web like this:

But I'm not sure if that it the best way. --Arctic Gnome 19:23, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cite Org Template

I would like a template for adding a footnote to articles about an organization or corporation. I have roughed it on my sand box User:Jeepday/Sandbox/cite org based loosely on the "cite web" template but I am sure I can't make it work. could anyone give me hand (or just jump in and do it)? Jeepday 05:19, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Citing maps

Could someone (who knows what they are doing) create a template for citing maps. This would be useful, especially when some maps contain some quite relavant information on their reverse side, particularly hiking maps. I am thinking the citation should shouw something similiar to what is listed here. Anyone up to the challenge? Nomadtales 03:19, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Microformat for citations

Please be aware of the proposal for a microformat for marking citations in (X)HTML. See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Microformats. Andy Mabbett 14:40, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

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