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The surname of the author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink'.

Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink'.

Title of existing Wikipedia article about the author; can suffix with a numeral to add additional authors

The surname of the second author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink2'.

Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the second author; don't wikilink.

Title of existing Wikipedia article about the second author. (Up to nine authors can be listed, 3-9 are toward the end of the parameter list)

The surname of the third author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink3'.

Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the third author; don't wikilink.

Title of existing Wikipedia article about the third author.

The surname of the fourth author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink4'.

Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the fourth author; don't wikilink.

Title of existing Wikipedia article about the fourth author.

The surname of the fifth author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink5'.

Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the fifth author; don't wikilink.

Title of existing Wikipedia article about the fifth author.

The surname of the sixth author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink6'.

Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the sixth author; don't wikilink.

Title of existing Wikipedia article about the sixth author.

The surname of the seventh author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink7'.

Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the seventh author; don't wikilink.

Title of existing Wikipedia article about the seventh author.

The surname of the eighth author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink8'.

Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the eighth author; don't wikilink.

Title of existing Wikipedia article about the eighth author.

The surname of the ninth author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink9'. If nine authors are defined, then only eight will show and 'et al.' will show in place of the last author.

Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the ninth author; don't wikilink.

Title of existing Wikipedia article about the ninth author.

number of authors to display before 'et al.' is used;

Replaces the name of the first author with em dashes or text; set to a numeric value 'n' to set the dash 'n' em spaces wide; set to a text value to display the text without a trailing author separator; for example, 'with' instead

When set to any value, changes the separator between the last two names of the author list to 'space ampersand space'

Changes the separator between last and first names; defaults to a comma and space; a space must be encoded as

Default
,

Changes the separator between authors; defaults to a semicolon and space; a space must be encoded as

Default
;

Used to record other contributions to the work, such as 'Illustrated by John Smith' or 'Translated by John Smith'

Full date of the source; do not wikilink

Name of the month of publication; do not wikilink; use 'date' instead, if day of month is also known

Year of the source being referenced; use 'date' instead, if month and day are also known

Original year of publication; provide specifics

The title of the article as it appears in the source; displays in quotes

For titles in languages that do not use a Latin-based alphabet (Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, etc). Prefix with two-character ISO639-1 language code followed by a colon. For Japanese use: |script-title=ja:...

The language in which the source is written, if not English; use the full language name; do not use icons or templates

An English language title, if the source cited is in a foreign language; 'language' is recommended

When the publication has more than one edition; for example: '2nd', 'Revised' etc.; suffixed with ' ed.'

For one publication published in several volumes

Page in the source that supports the content; displays after 'p.'

Pages in the source that support the content (not an indication of the number of pages in the source; displays after 'pp.'

Set to 'y' to suppress the 'p.' or 'pp.' display with 'page' or 'pages' when inappropriate (such as 'Front cover')

May be used instead of 'page' or 'pages' where a page number is inappropriate or insufficient

Name of the newspaper, magazine or periodical; displays after title

Example
The Wall Street Journal

Name of the parent institution or company that publishes the newspaper, magazine, or periodical; displays after name of the publication

Example
News Corp

The news agency (wire service) that provided the content; examples: Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France-Presse

Issue identifier when the source is part of a series that is published periodically

Department within the periodical

Geographical place of publication; usually not wikilinked; omit when the publication name includes place; alias of 'place'

Publication place shows after title; if 'place' or 'location' are also given, they are displayed before the title prefixed with 'written at'

Date of publication when different from the date the work was written; do not wikilink

The surname of the editor; don't wikilink, use 'editor-link'; can suffix with a numeral to add additional editors; alias of 'editor1-last', 'editor', and 'editors'

Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the editor; don't wikilink, use 'editor-link'; can suffix with a numeral to add additional editors; alias of 'editor1-first'

Title of existing Wikipedia article about the editor; can suffix with a numeral to add additional editors; alias of 'editor1-link'

Additional information about the media type of the source; format in sentence case

Format of the work referred to by 'url'; examples: PDF, DOC, XLS; do not specify HTML

The URL of the online location where the text of the publication can be found. Requires schemes of the type "http://..." or maybe even the  protocol relative scheme "//..."

Example
https://www.nytimes.com/...

If set to 'live', the title display is adjusted; useful for when the URL is archived preemptively but still live. Set to "dead" or 'usurped' for broken links. Entering 'unfit' or 'usurped' makes the original link not appear at all.

Default
'dead' if an Archive URL is entered
Example
'dead' or 'live'
Auto value
live

Classification of the access restrictions on the URL ('registration', 'subscription' or 'limited')

The full date when the original URL was accessed; do not wikilink

The URL of an archived copy of a web page, if or in case the URL becomes unavailable; requires 'archivedate'

Date when the original URL was archived; do not wikilink

An identifier for arXive electronic preprints of scientific papers

Amazon Standard Identification Number; 10 characters

ASIN top-level domain for Amazon sites other than the US

Bibliographic Reference Code (REFCODE); 19 characters

Digital Object Identifier; begins with '10.'

The date that the DOI was determined to be broken

International Standard Book Number; use the 13-digit ISBN where possible

International Standard Serial Number; 8 characters; may be split into two groups of four using a hyphen

Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik classification code

JSTOR identifier

Library of Congress Control Number

Mathematical Reviews identifier

Online Computer Library Center number

Open Library identifier

Office of Scientific and Technical Information identifier

PubMed Center article number

PubMed Unique Identifier

Request for Comments number

Social Science Research Network

Zentralblatt MATH journal identifier

A unique identifier used where none of the specialized ones are applicable

Relevant text quoted from the source; displays last, enclosed in quotes; needs to include terminating punctuation

An anchor identifier; can be made the target of wikilinks to full references; special value 'harv' generates an anchor suitable for the harv and sfn templates

The closing punctuation for the citation; ignored if 'quote' is defined; to suppress use reserved keyword 'none'

Default
.

For online sources that require registration, set to 'yes' (or 'y', or 'true'); superseded by subscription if both are set

For online sources that require subscription, set to 'yes' (or 'y', or 'true'); supersedes registration if both are set

URL link to a non-technical summary or review of the source; alias of 'laysummary'

Name of the source of the laysummary; displays in italics, preceded by an en dash

Date of the summary; displays in parentheses

Identify the aggregator of the resource that provided the digital version (usually a database provider), when it differs from the publisher (e.g., for The Wikipedia Library)

Example
EBSCOHost , Proquest, Newspapers.com

If the full text is available from ADS via this Bibcode, type 'free'.

If the full text is free to read via the DOI, type 'free'.

If the full text is free to read via the HDL, type 'free'.

If the full text is free to read on Jstor, type 'free'.

If the full text is free to read on OpenLibrary, type 'free'.

If the full text is free to read on OSTI, type 'free'.