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When citing an article in a periodical, use cite journal. For edited collections, use cite encyclopedia.

Usage






 last last last[n-1] for n>1 last[n] last[n] editor-last editor-last editor[n-1]-last for n>1 editor[n]-last editor[n]-last archiveurl url url year or date year publisher page or pages chapter laysummary last[n] for n>1

 same as last1 same as first1 same as authorlink1 [n] = 1 through 9 [n] = 1 through 9 [n] = 1 through 9 same as editor and editor1-last same as editor1-first same as editor1-link [n] = 1 through 4 [n] = 1 through 4 [n] = 1 through 4 insert URL of online version of the book or an extract, if available †preferred (no wikilink) alternative to date always include ISBN if one has been assigned hides automatic 'p' or 'pp'. alternative to page/pages when those are used with nopp ‡(no wikilink). Synonymous with "contribution".

† This is the preferred parameter with its alternates listed below.

‡ If chapterurl is provided then chapter cannot have wikilinks.

Examples
Title

Title and year

Basic usage (single author)

Basic usage (two authors)

Basic usage with url (and accessdate) and edition

Citing a chapter in a book with different authors for different chapters and an editor

Citing a chapter in a book with two joint authors and an editor

Three authors, title with a piped wikilink, edition

Complex usage showing effect of using volume parameter and lastauthoramp parameter (without volume and lastauthoramp)

Complex usage showing effect of using volume parameter and lastauthoramp parameter (with volume and lastauthoramp)

Date without day, wikilinked title and publisher, pages, edition, location

Other language

Using a DOI

Using author-mask parameter

Using display-authors parameter

Testing
See Template:cite book/regression tests.