Template:Citation/fcite journal/doc

The Template:Citation/fcite journal, as with {&#123;Citation/fcite web}} and other templates in the Citation/fcite group, is a fast-cite alternative to {&#123;cite journal}} for use in large articles. To allow extreme speed, only the basic parameter names are supported, such as "last6=" or "first6=" rather than "surname6=" or "given6=" (etc.), and "author=" but not "authormask=". For rare parameters, the original cite templates can still be used, and mixed within an article. To view parameter names, see: Template:Cite_journal/doc.

In articles which contain more than 300 formatted references, the speed of formatting a large article, during 2009, reached 30–60 seconds for logged-in users, so the Citation/fcite templates can be used to run 5x faster (6–12 seconds) when reformatting an article. Many large articles experienced similar long delays during 2009–2012, due to using numerous large templates. Also, there have been some cases where other large templates, in the same articles, have exceeded template resources, and so {Citation/fcite_journal} or {Citation/fcite_web} could be used in those articles to allow hundreds more citations without exceeding the template limits.

Examples
The operation is very similar to {&#123;cite journal}} and related templates.

For using {&#123;Citation/fcite_journal}}:
 * Markup: {&#123;citation/fcite journal|title=Study 17 of life |journal=Top Journal
 * |volume=9 |issue=4 |p=345 |publisher=Acme |location=London |date=May 1999
 * | year=1999 | url=http://www.google.com | accessdate=1 June 2009}}
 * Result:

Example with 3 authors, compared to {&#123;cite journal}}:


 * Markup: {&#123;citation/fcite journal |last1=Smith |first1=Joe |last2=Doe |first2=John H.
 * |last3=Jones |first3=Mary |title=Growth of dawn creatures |journal=Life Journal
 * |publisher=Acme |year=1980 |date=June 1980 |location=London |volume=6 |issue=235
 * |page=2345-47 | url=http://www.science.com |accessdate=2012-07-10}}
 * Result:


 * Compare: {&#123;cite journal |last1=Smith |first1=Joe |last2=Doe |first2=John H.
 * |last3=Jones |first3=Mary |title=Growth of dawn creatures |journal=Life Journal
 * |publisher=Acme |year=1980 |date=June 1980 |location=London |volume=6 |issue=235
 * |page=2345-47 | url=http://www.science.com |accessdate=2012-07-10}}
 * Result:

Related templates
The various templates within the Citation/fcite group include:
 * Template:Citation/fcite web – for webpages, with "url=" link
 * Template:Citation/fcite book – for books, with optional "url=" link
 * Template:Citation/fcite news – for news articles, with "url=" link
 * Template:Citation/fcite journal – for journal articles, with issue/format
 * Template:Citation/fcite – puts a Harvard-ref anchor, linked from {&#123;Harvnb}}