Cite Av Media
This Citation Style 1 template is used to create citations for audio and visual works.
Template documentation | Do not use this template to cite material that violates copyright law. Citations to such material must either be replaced with a non-copyvio source or removed immediately. |
 | This template uses Lua: |
| {{Cite arXiv}} | arXiv preprints |
|---|---|
| {{Cite AV media}} | audio and visual |
| {{Cite AV media notes}} | audio and visual liner notes |
| {{Cite bioRxiv}} | bioRxiv preprints |
| {{Cite book}} | books |
| {{Cite conference}} | conference papers |
| {{Cite encyclopedia}} | edited collections |
| {{Cite episode}} | radio or television episodes |
| {{Cite interview}} | interviews |
| {{Cite journal}} | academic journals and papers |
| {{Cite magazine}} | magazines, periodicals |
| {{Cite mailing list}} | public mailing lists |
| {{Cite map}} | maps |
| {{Cite news}} | news articles |
| {{Cite newsgroup}} | online newsgroups |
| {{Cite podcast}} | podcasts |
| {{Cite press release}} | press releases |
| {{Cite report}} | reports |
| {{Cite serial}} | audio or video serials |
| {{Cite sign}} | signs, plaques |
| {{Cite speech}} | speeches |
| {{Cite techreport}} | technical reports |
| {{Cite thesis}} | theses |
| {{Cite web}} | web sources not covered by the above |
| See also: | |
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For media in episodic or serial format, use {{cite episode}} or {{cite serial}}. To cite liner notes and other print media associated with audio or visual media, use {{cite AV media notes}}.
Usage
Copy a blank version to use. All parameter names must be in lowercase. Use the "|" (pipe) character between each parameter. Delete unused parameters to avoid clutter in the edit window. Some samples may include the current date. If the date is not current, then the page.
Horizontal list:
{{cite AV media |people= |date= |title= |trans-title= |medium= |language= |url= |access-date= |archive-url= |archive-date= |format= |time= |location= |publisher= |id= |isbn= |oclc= |quote= |ref= }}
Vertical format:
{{cite AV media | people = | date = | title = | trans-title = | medium = | language = | url = | access-date = | archive-url = | archive-date = | format = | time = | location = | publisher = | id = | isbn = | oclc = | quote = | ref = }} Examples
{{cite AV media | people=Fouladkar, Assad (Director) | date=May 15, 2003 | title=Lamma hikyit Maryam | trans-title = When Maryam Spoke Out | medium=Motion picture | location=Lebanon | publisher=Fouladkar, Assad}}- Fouladkar, Assad (Director) (May 15, 2003). Lamma hikyit Maryam [When Maryam Spoke Out] (Motion picture). Lebanon: Fouladkar, Assad.
Parameters
Syntax
Nested parameters rely on their parent parameters:
- parent
- OR: parent2—may be used instead of parent
- child—may be used with parent (and is ignored if parent is not used)
- OR: child2—may be used instead of child (and is ignored if parent2 is not used)
- Where aliases are listed, only one of the parameters may be defined; if multiple aliased parameters are defined, then only one will show.
By default, sets of fields are terminated with a period (.).
COinS
This template embeds COinS metadata in the HTML output, allowing reference management software to retrieve bibliographic metadata.vanc and when the list uses last/first parameters for the name list(s).|vauthors=Smythe JB, ((Megabux Corp.))
- author-link and author-mask may be used for the individual names in
|vauthors=as described above
- translator-first: Given or first names of translator. Do not wikilink—use translator-link instead. Aliases: translator-given, translator1-first, translator-first1.
- OR: for multiple translators, use translator-last1, translator-first1 through translator-lastn, translator-firstn, where n is any consecutive number for an unlimited number of translators (each translator-firstn requires a corresponding translator-lastn). Aliases: translator1-last, translator1-first through translatorn-last, translatorn-first, or translator1 through translatorn.
- translator-link: Title of existing Wikipedia article about the translator—not the translator's website; do not wikilink. Aliases: translator-link1, translator1-link.
- OR: for multiple translators, use translator-link1 through translator-linkn. Aliases: translator1-link through translatorn-link.
Title
- title-link: Title of existing Wikipedia article about the source named in title – do not use a web address; do not wikilink. Alias: titlelink.
- type: Provides additional information about the media type of the source; format in sentence case. Displays in parentheses following the title. Examples: Thesis, Booklet, CD liner, Press release. Alias: medium. Use one of the following as applicable: Motion picture, Television production, Videotape, DVD, Trailer, Video game, CD, Radio broadcast, Podcast.
- chapter: The chapter heading of the source. May be wikilinked or may use chapter-url, but not both. Displays in quotes.
- trans-chapter: English translation of the chapter heading, if the source cited is in a foreign language. Displays in square brackets after the chapter field; if chapter-url is defined, then trans-chapter is included in the link. Use of the language parameter is recommended.
- language: The language in which the source is written. Displays in parentheses with "in" before the language name or names. Use the full language name or ISO 639-1 code. When the source uses more than one language, list them individually, separated by commas, e.g.
|language=French, German. The use of language names or language codes recognized by Wiki adds the page to the appropriate subcategory of Category:CS1 foreign language sources; do not use templates or wikilinks. Note: When the language is "English" (or "en"), no language is displayed in the citation. Note: When two or more languages are listed there is no need to include "and" before the last language. "and" is inserted automatically by the template.
Date
- date: Date of source being referenced. Can be full date (day, month, and year) or partial date (month and year, season and year, or year). Use same format as other publication dates in the citations. Required when year is used to disambiguate
{{sfn}}links to multiple-work citations by the same author in the same year.[more] Do not wikilink. Displays after the authors and is enclosed in parentheses. If there is no author, then displays after publisher.
- For approximate year, precede with "
c.", like this:|date=c. 1900.
- For no date, or "undated", add as
|date=n.d.
- year: Year of source being referenced. Use of
|date=is recommended unless all of the following conditions are met:- The template uses
|ref=harv, or the template is{{citation}}, or|mode=cs2 - The
|date=format is YYYY-MM-DD. - The citation requires a
CITEREFdisambiguator.
- The template uses
- orig-year: Original publication year; displays after the date or year. For clarity, please supply specifics. For example:
|orig-year=First published 1859or|orig-year=Composed 1904. Alias: origyear - df: date format; sets rendered dates to the specified format; does not support date ranges or seasonal dates. Accepts one value which may be one of these:
dmy– set publication dates to day month year format; access- and archive-dates are not modified;mdy– as above for month day, year formatymd– as above for year initial numeric format YYYY-MM-DDdmy-all– set publication, access-, and archive-dates to day month year format;mdy-all– as above for month day, year formatymd-all– as above for year initial numeric format YYYY-MM-DD
Publisher
- publisher: Name of publisher; may be wikilinked if relevant. The publisher is the company that publishes the work being cited. Do not use the publisher parameter for the name of a work (e.g. a website, book, encyclopedia, newspaper, magazine, journal, etc.). Corporate designations such as "Ltd", "Inc.", or "GmbH" are not usually included. Not normally used for periodicals. Omit where the publisher's name is substantially the same as the name of the work (for example, The New York Times Co. publishes The New York Times newspaper, so there is no reason to name the publisher). Displays after title; if work is defined, then publisher is enclosed in parentheses.
- place: Geographical place of publication; generally not wikilinked; omit when the name of the work includes the location; examples: The Boston Globe, The Times of India. Displays after the title. Alias: location
- publication-place: If any one of publication-place, place, or location is defined, the location will show after the title; if publication-place and place or location are defined, then place or location is shown before the title prefixed with "written at" and publication-place is shown after the title.
- publication-date: Date of publication when different from the date the work was written. Displays only if year or date are defined and only if different, else publication-date is used and displayed as date. Use the same format as other dates in the article; do not wikilink. Follows publisher; if work is not defined, then publication-date is preceded by "published" and enclosed in parenthesis.
- via: Name of the content deliverer (if different from publisher). via is not a replacement for publisher, but provides additional detail. It may be used when the content deliverer presents the source in a format other than the original (e.g. NewsBank), when the URL provided does not make clear the identity of the deliverer, where no URL or DOI is available (EBSCO), or if the deliverer requests attribution.
Edition, series, volume
- edition: When the publication has more than one edition; for example: "2nd", "Revised", and so forth. Appends the string " ed." after the field, so
|edition=2ndproduces "2nd ed." Does not display if a periodical field is defined.
- series or version: When the source is part of a series, such as a book series or a journal where the issue numbering has restarted.
- volume: For one publication published in several volumes. Displays after the title and series fields; volumes of four characters or less display in bold.
In-source locations
- minutes: Time the event occurs in the source; followed by "minutes in".
- OR: time: Time the event occurs in the source; preceded by default text "Event occurs at time".
- time-caption: Changes the default text displayed before time. Alias: timecaption.
- page: The number of a single page in the source that supports the content. Use either
|page=or|pages=, but not both. Displays preceded byp.unless|nopp=y. - OR: pages: A range of pages in the source that supports the content. Use either
|page=or|pages=, but not both. Separate using an en dash (–); separate non-sequential pages with a comma (,); do not use to indicate the total number of pages in the source. Displays preceded bypp.unless|nopp=y. Hyphens are automatically converted to en dashes; if hyphens are appropriate, for example: pp. 3-1–3-15, use|pages=3{{hyphen}}1–3{{hyphen}}15or|at=pp. 3-1–3-15.- nopp: Set to y, yes, or true to suppress the
p.orpp.notations where this is inappropriate; for example, where|page=Front coveror|pages=passim.
- nopp: Set to y, yes, or true to suppress the
- OR: at: For sources where a page number is inappropriate or insufficient. Overridden by
|page=or|pages=. Use only one of|page=,|pages=, or|at=.
- Examples: page (p.) or pages (pp.); section (sec.), column (col.), paragraph (para.); track; hours, minutes and seconds; act, scene, canto, book, part, folio, stanza, back cover, liner notes, indicia, colophon, dust jacket, verse.
URL
- url: URL of an online location where the media can be found. Cannot be used if title is wikilinked. If applicable, the link may point to the specific page(s) referenced. Remove tracking parameters from URLs, e.g.
#ixzz2rBr3aO94or?utm_source=google&utm_medium=...&utm_term=...&utm_campaign=....
|template-doc-demo=true to disable categorization; mainly used for documentation where the error is demonstrated. Alias: no-cat.- URLs must begin with a supported URI scheme.
http://andhttps://will be supported by all browsers; however,ftp://,gopher://,irc://,ircs://,mailto:andnews:may require a plug-in or an external application and should normally be avoided. IPv6 host-names are currently not supported. - If URLs in citation template parameters contain certain characters, then they will not display and link correctly. Those characters need to be percent-encoded. For example, a space must be replaced by
%20. To encode the URL, replace the following characters with:
| sp | " | ' | < | > | [ | ] | { | | | } |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| %20 | %22 | %27 | %3c | %3e | %5b | %5d | %7b | %7c | %7d |
- Single apostrophes do not need to be encoded; however, unencoded multiples will be parsed as italic or bold markup. Single curly closing braces also do not need to be encoded; however, an unencoded pair will be parsed as the double closing braces for the template transclusion.
Anchor
- ref: the citation's HTML anchor identifier. When set,
|ref=IDgenerates an anchor with the given ID (theidattribute in the citation'sHTML tag). Setting|ref=IDidentifies the template as a target and allows wikilinking to full references, especially useful with short-form citations like shortened notes and parenthetical referencing. The special value|ref=harvgenerates an anchor identifier suitable for use with {{sfn}} and {{harv}} templates. For|mode=cs2|ref=defaults to|ref=harv.
Identifiers
- id: A unique identifier, used where none of the specialized identifiers are applicable; wikilink or use a template as applicable.
These identifiers create links and are designed to accept a single value. Using multiple values or other text will break the link and/or invalidate the identifier. In general, the parameters should include only the variable part of the identifier, e.g. rfc=822 or pmc=345678.
- arxiv: arXiv identifier; for example:
arxiv=hep-th/9205027(before April 2007) orarxiv=0706.0001(April 2007 – December 2014) orarxiv=1501.00001(since January 2015). Do not include extraneous file extensions like ".pdf" or ".html". - asin: Amazon Standard Identification Number; if first character of asin value is a digit, use isbn. Because this link favours one specific distributor, include it only if standard identifiers are not available. Example
asin=B00005N5PF- asin-tld: ASIN top-level domain for Amazon sites other than the US; valid values:
au,br,ca,cn,co.jp,co.uk,de,es,fr,it,mx
- asin-tld: ASIN top-level domain for Amazon sites other than the US; valid values:
- bibcode: Bibcode; used by a number of astronomical data systems; for example:
1974AJ.....79..819H - biorxiv: bioRxiv id, a 6-digit number at the end of the biorXiv URL (e.g.
078733for http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/10/01/078733 or https://dx.doi.org/10.1101/078733) - citeseerx: CiteSeerX id, a string of digits and dots found in a CiteSeerX URL (e.g.
10.1.1.176.341for http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.176.341 ) - doi: Digital object identifier; for example:
10.1038/news070508-7. It is checked to ensure it begins with (10.).- doi-broken-date: Date the DOI was found to be non-working at https://dx.doi.org. Use the same format as other dates in the article. Alias: doi-inactive-date
- eissn: International Standard Serial Number for the electronic media of a serial publication; eight characters may be split into two groups of four using a hyphen, but not an en dash or a space; example
eissn=1557-2986Alias: EISSN - hdl: Handle System identifier for digital objects and other resources on the Internet; example
hdl=20.1000/100Alias: HDL - isbn: International Standard Book Number; for example:
978-0-8126-9593-9. - ismn: International Standard Music Number; for example:
979-0-9016791-7-7. Hyphens or spaces in the ISMN are optional. Use the ISMN actually printed on or in the work. This parameter should hold only the ISMN without any additional characters. It is checked for length, invalid characters – anything other than numbers, spaces, and hyphens – and the proper check digit. Alias: ISMN - issn: International Standard Serial Number; eight characters may be split into two groups of four using a hyphen, but not an en dash or a space; example
issn=2049-3630Alias: ISSN - jfm: Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik; example
jfm=53.0144.01 - jstor: JSTOR reference number; for example:
jstor=3793107will generate JSTOR 3793107. - lccn: Library of Congress Control Number. When present, alphabetic prefix characters are to be lower case; example
lccn=2004042477 - mr: Mathematical Reviews; example
mr=630583 - oclc: OCLC; WorldCat's Online Computer Library Center; example
oclc=9355469 - ol: Open Library identifier; do not include "OL" in the value; example
ol=7030731M - osti: Office of Scientific and Technical Information; example
osti=4367507 - pmc: PubMed Central; use article number for full-text free repository of a journal article, e.g.
pmc=345678. Do not include "PMC" in the value. - pmid: PubMed; use unique identifier; example
pmid=17322060 - rfc: Request for Comments; example
rfc=3143 - ssrn: Social Science Research Network; example
ssrn=1900856 - zbl: Zentralblatt MATH; example
zbl=0472.53010
Quote
- quote: Relevant text quoted from the source. Displays enclosed in quotes. When supplied, the citation terminator (a period by default) is suppressed, so the quote must include terminating punctuation.
Editors
- editor-last: Surname of editor. Do not wikilink—use editor-link instead. Where the surname is usually written first—as in Chinese—or for corporate authors, simply use editor-last to include the same format as the source. Aliases: editor-last1, editor1-last, editor-surname, editor-surname1, editor1-surname, editor, editor1.
- editor: this parameter is used to hold the complete name of a single editor (first and last). This parameter should never hold the names of more than one editor.
- editor-first: Given or first names of editor, including title(s); example: Firstname Middlename or Firstname M. or Dr. Firstname M., Sr. Do not wikilink—use editor-link instead. Aliases: editor-first1, editor1-first, editor-given, editor-given1, editor1-given.
- OR: for multiple editors, use editor-last1, editor-first1 through editor-lastn, editor-firstn (Aliases: editorn-last, editor-surnamen or editorn-surname; editorn-first, editor-givenn or editorn-given; editorn). For an individual editor plus an institutional editor, you can use
|editor-first1=...|editor-last1=...|editor2=....
- editor-link: Title of existing Wikipedia article about the editor—not the editor's website; do not wikilink. Aliases: editor-link1.
- OR: for multiple editors, use editor-link1 through editor-linkn (alias editorn-link).
- name-list-format: displays authors and editors in Vancouver style when set to
vancand when the list useslast/firstparameters for the name list(s)
- veditors: comma separated list of editor names in Vancouver style; enclose corporate or institutional names in doubled parentheses:
|veditors=Smythe JB ((Megabux Corp.))
- editor-linkn and editor-maskn may be used for the individual names in
|veditors=, as described above
- editor-linkn and editor-maskn may be used for the individual names in
- editors: Free-form list of editor names; use of this parameter is discouraged; not an alias of editor-last
- Display:
- Use display-editors to control the length of the displayed editor name list and to specify when "et al." is included.
- If authors: Authors are first, followed by the included work, then "In" and the editors, then the main work.
- If no authors: Editors appear before the included work; a single editor is followed by "ed."; multiple editors are followed by "eds."
Laysummary
- lay-url: URL link to a non-technical summary or review of the source; the URL title is set to "Lay summary". Aliases: lay-summary, laysummary.
- lay-source: Name of the source of the laysummary. Displays in italics and preceded by an endash. Alias: laysource.
- lay-date: Date of the summary. Displays in parentheses. Alias: laydate.
Display options
- mode: Sets element separator, default terminal punctuation, and certain capitalization according to the value provided. For
|mode=cs1, element separator is a semicolon (;); terminal punctuation is a period (.); where appropriate, initial letters of certain words are capitalized ('Retrieved...'). For|mode=cs2, element separator is a comma (,); terminal punctuation is omitted; where appropriate, initial letters of certain words are not capitalized ('retrieved...'). To override default terminal punctuation use postscript. - author-mask: Replaces the name of the first author with em dashes or text. Set author-mask to a numeric value n to set the dash n em spaces wide; set author-mask to a text value to display the text without a trailing author separator; for example, "with". You must still include the values for all authors for metadata purposes. Primarily intended for use with bibliographies or bibliography styles where multiple works by a single author are listed sequentially such as shortened footnotes. Do not use in a list generated by
{{reflist}}, - display-authors: Controls the number of author names that are displayed when a citation is published. To change the displayed number of authors, set display-authors to the desired number. For example,
|display-authors=2will display only the first two authors in a citation. By default, all authors are displayed.|display-authors=etaldisplays all authors in the list followed by et al. Aliases: displayauthors. - display-editors: Controls the number of editor names that are displayed when a citation is published. To change the displayed number of editors, set display-editors to the desired number. For example,
|display-editors=2will display only the first two editors in a citation. By default, all editors are displayed except when there are four editors, then the editor list in the citation is truncated to three editors, followed by "et al." This exception mimics the older version of the template for compatibility. If a citation contains four editor names and one wishes all four editor names to display, "et al." may be suppressed by setting|display-editors=4.|display-editors=etaldisplays all editors in the list followed by et al. Aliases: displayeditors. - last-author-amp: Switches the separator between the last two names of the author list to space ampersand space (
&) when set toy,yes, ortrue. Example:|last-author-amp=yes - postscript: Controls the closing punctuation for a citation; defaults to a period (
.); for no terminating punctuation, specify|postscript=none– leaving|postscript=empty is the same as omitting it, but is ambiguous. Ignored if quote is defined.
Subscription or registration required
Citations of online sources that require registration or a subscription are acceptable in Wikipedia as documented in Verifiability – Access to sources. As a courtesy to readers and other editors, editors can signal the access restrictions of the external links included in a citation.
Four access levels can be used:
free: the source is free to read for anyone (this applies in particular to articles in open access)
registration: a free registration is required to access the source-
limited: there are other constraints (such as a cap on daily views) to freely access this source 
subscription: the source is only accessible via a paid subscription
As there are often multiple external links with different access levels in the same citation, these values are attributed to a particular external link.
Access level of |url=
Links inserted with |url= are expected to be free to read by default. If not, editors can use one of
|url-access=subscription|url-access=registration|url-access=limited
to indicate the relevant access restriction.
Access level of identifiers
Links inserted by identifiers such as |doi= are not expected to offer a free full text by default. If they do, editors can use |doi-access=free (in the case of |doi=) to indicate the relevant access level. The following identifiers are supported:
|bibcode=with|bibcode-access=free|doi=with|doi-access=free|hdl=with|hdl-access=free|jstor=with|jstor-access=free|ol=with|ol-access=free|osti=with|osti-access=free
Some identifiers always link to free full texts. In this case, the access level is automatically indicated by the template. This is the case for |arxiv=, |biorxiv=, |citeseerx=, |pmc=, |rfc= and |ssrn=.
Ambiguous access parameters
The parameters |registration=yes and |subscription=yes can also be used to indicate the access level of a citation. However, they do not indicate which link they apply to, so editors are encouraged to use |url-access=registration and |url-access=subscription instead, when the restriction applies to |url=. If the restriction applies to an identifier, these parameters should be omitted.
These parameters add a link note to the end of the citation:
- registration: For online sources that require registration, set
|registration=yes(ory, ortrue); superseded by subscription if both are set. - subscription: For online sources that require a subscription, set
|subscription=yes(ory, ortrue); supersedes registration if both are set.
Setting |registration= or |subscription= to any value other than y, yes, or true will generate an error message.
This template produces COinS metadata; see COinS in Wikipedia for background information.
TemplateData
TemplateData for Cite AV media
This template formats a citation to audiovisual media sources.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| URL | url URL | The URL of the online location where the media can be found | String | suggested |
| Source title | title | The title of the source page on the website; displays in quotes | String | suggested |
| Source date | date | Full date of the source; do not wikilink | Date | suggested |
| Author last name | last author author1 authors last1 people | The surname of the author; Do not wikilink - use author-link instead. | String | suggested |
| Author first name | first first1 | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the author; don't wikilink | String | suggested |
| Media type | type | Media type of the source; format in sentence case. Displays in parentheses following the title. Use one of the following as applicable: Motion picture, Television production, Videotape, DVD, Trailer, Video game, CD, Radio broadcast, Podcast. | String | suggested |
| Language | language | The language the source is written in, if not English. Displays in parentheses with "in" before the language name. Use the full language name or ISO 639-1 code. | String | suggested |
| Publisher | publisher | Name of the publisher; displays after title | String | optional |
| Year | year | Year of source being referenced. Do not use in combination with 'Source date'. | Number | optional |
| English translation of title | trans-title | The English translation of the title if the source cited is in a foreign language. Displays in square brackets after title. Use with the language parameter. | String | optional |
| Author article title | author-link authorlink1 authorlink author1-link author1link | Title of existing Wikipedia article about the author — not the author's website. | Page name | optional |
| Other contributors | others | Other contributors to the work, such as 'Illustrated by John Smith' or 'Translated by John Smith'. | String | optional |
| Place of publication | place location | Geographical place of publication; generally not wikilinked; omit when the name of the work includes the location. | String | optional |
| Original publication year | orig-year | Original publication year; displays after the date or year. For clarity, please supply specifics - such as 'First published 1859'. | String | optional |
| Place of publication (Alternate) | publication-place | If any one of publication-place, place or location are defined, then the location shows after the title; if publication-place and place or location are defined, then place or location are shown before the title prefixed with "written at" and publication-place is shown after the title. | String | optional |
| Edition | edition | When the publication has more than one edition; for example: "2nd", "Revised", and so forth. Appends " ed." after the field. | String | optional |
| Series | series version | When the source is part of a series, such as a book series or a journal where the issue numbering has restarted | String | optional |
| Volume | volume | For one publication published in several volumes. Displays after the title and series fields; displays in bold | String | optional |
| In-source location: Minutes | minutes | Time the event occurs in the source; followed by "minutes in". | Number | optional |
| In-source location: Time | time | Time the event occurs in the source; preceded by default text "Event occurs at time". | String | optional |
| In-source location: Time caption | time-caption timecaption | Changes the default text displayed before time | String | optional |
| In-source location: Page | page | The number of a single page in the source that supports the content. Use 'pages' instead for a range of pages. | Number | optional |
| In-source location: At | at | For when other in-soruce locations are inappropriate or insufficient. | String | optional |
| URL: Access date | access-date accessdate | Full date when the contents pointed to by url was last verified to support the text in the article; do not wikilink | Date | optional |
| URL: Archive URL | archive-url archiveurl | The URL of an archived copy of a web page, if or in case the url becomes unavailable. | String | optional |
| URL: Archive date | archive-date archivedate | Date when the original URL was archived; preceded by default text "archived from the original on". Use the same format as other access and archive dates in the citations. | Date | optional |
| URL: Original is dead | dead-url deadurl | When the URL is still live, but pre-emptively archived, set to No. This changes the display order with the title retaining the original link and the archive linked at the end | String | optional |
| Format | format | Format of the work referred to by url; for example: PDF, DOC, or XLS; displayed in parentheses after title. HTML is implied and should not be specified. Does not change the external link icon. | String | optional |
| Anchor ID | ref | Generates anchor with the given ID, allowing it to be made the target of wikilinks to full references. The special value 'harv' generates an anchor suitable for the harv template. | String | optional |
| Identifier | id | A unique identifier, used where none of the specialized identifiers are applicable | String | optional |
| Identifier: arXiv | arxiv | arXiv identifier; for example: arxiv=hep-th/9205027 (before April 2007) or arxiv=0706.0001 (since April 2007). Do not include extraneous file extensions like ".pdf" or ".html". | String | optional |
| Identifier: ASIN | asin | Amazon Standard Identification Number; if first character of asin value is a digit, use isbn. | String | optional |
| Identifier: Bibcode | bibcode | Bibcode; used by a number of astronomical data systems; for example: 1974AJ.....79..819H | String | optional |
| Identifier: DOI | doi | Digital object identifier; for example: 10.1038/news070508-7. It is checked to ensure it begins with 10. | String | optional |
| Identifier: ISBN | isbn | International Standard Book Number; for example: 978-0-8126-9593-9. Dashes in the ISBN are optional, but preferred. Use the ISBN actually printed on or in the book. Use the 13-digit ISBN – beginning with 978 or 979 – when it is available. | String | optional |
| Identifier: ISSN | issn | International Standard Serial Number; eight characters may be split into two groups of four using a hyphen, but not an en dash or a space. | String | optional |
| Identifier: JFM | jfm | Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik | String | optional |
| Identifier: JSTOR | jstor | JSTOR abstract; for example: "3793107" | Number | optional |
| Identifier: LCCN | lccn | Library of Congress Control Number. When present, alphabetic prefix characters are to be lower case. | String | optional |
| Identifier: Mathematical Reviews | mr | no description | String | optional |
| Identifier: OCLC | oclc | Online Computer Library Center | String | optional |
| Identifier: Open Library | ol | Open Library identifier; do not include "OL" in the value. | Number | optional |
| Identifier: OSTI | osti | Office of Scientific and Technical Information | String | optional |
| Identifier: PMC | pmc | PubMed Central; use article number for full-text free repository of a journal article, e.g. 345678. Do not include "PMC" in the value | Number | optional |
| Identifier: PMID | pmid | PubMed; use unique identifier | Number | optional |
| Identifier: RFC | rfc | Request for Comments | Number | optional |
| Identifier: SSRN | ssrn | Social Science Research Network | String | optional |
| Identifier: ZBL | zbl | no description | String | optional |
| Quote | quote | Relevant text quoted from the source. Displays enclosed in quotes. When supplied, the citation terminator (a period by default) is suppressed, so the quote needs to include terminating punctuation. | String | optional |