Template:Cite news/doc

This template is used to cite sources in Wikipedia. It is intended specifically for news sources. For citing journals/magazines and websites, see Cite journal and Cite web, respectively.

Usage
All parameter names must be lower case.

Copy a blank version to use. Remember to use the "undefined" (pipe) character between each field. Please delete any unused fields to avoid clutter in the edit window.

Citations within a page should use consistent formats. However, there is no consensus about which format is best.

Common form with author(s) in a single parameter

 * Day Month Year:


 * Month Day, Year:

Common form with first and last

 * Day Month Year:


 * Month Day, Year:

All parameters

 * All parameters, horizontal format (delete parameters you don't need):


 * All parameters, vertical format

Essential parameters

 * title: Title of the article. Note that title must be on one line in order for the hyperlink (if there is one) to display properly. Do not enclose it in quotations marks, italics or other formatting, though it may be wikilinked. Reduce "all capitals" to some other title case.
 * newspaper: Name of the publication that ran the item, e.g., The Miami Herald or The Scotsman. Can also be used for the name of a column or subpart of an issue. Do not italicize; the software will do so automatically. (You may also use journal, magazine, periodical, or work, but do not use publisher for this.)
 * date: Date of publication. To avoid ambiguity, write out the month in words, using the same date format as in the main text of the article. When this information is absent for an online source consider using cite web instead.

Optional parameters

 * author: Author.
 * last works with first to produce  as name of author.
 * authorlink works either with author or with last & first to link to the appropriate Wikipedia article. Does not work with URLs.
 * author2, author3, ... author9: Allows additional authors. Numbers must be used consecutively. author9 is not actually displayed, but causes et al. to appear. Can also use lastn, firstn, and authorlinkn.
 * coauthors: Equivalent to author2.
 * url: Link to the news item if available online (note this is not for a link to the main web page of the work of publisher, but only to a copy of the item specified in title). Start the url with the communications protocol e.g., http://. Do not post urls of Google hosted AP content, that content is transient. Use MSNBC, Yahoo, or another provider that keeps AP archives.
 * accessdate: Date when the news item was accessed, if it was found online. Should be in the same format as the rest of the article. Must not be wikilinked.
 * format: Format, e.g. PDF. Don't specify for HTML (implied as default). This parameter is sometimes used for completely different purposes, with values such as "fee required" and "reprint", but its original intent was to warn readers of file formats that their browsers might have trouble with.
 * agency: The news agency (wire service) that provided the content, if any, e.g. Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France-Presse, etc.
 * location: Place of publication, e.g., Toronto for The Globe and Mail. Should be included if the city of publication is not part of the name of the newspaper. For student newspapers, include the name of the school.
 * publisher: The company or organization that publishes the news source (not to be used for the name of the news source itself; see the  parameter). Can be (but need not be) omitted for major publications like The New York Times, but may add credibility for local papers that are part of a family of publications like The McClatchy Company.
 * isbn, issn, oclc, pmid, pmd, bibcode, doi Unique object identifiers, if applicable. Will automatically generate an appropriately wikilinked link to the object in question. Most ordinary newspaper articles will not have one of these.
 * id: Identifier of a type not listed above. Remember, if you use this parameter, you must specify the kind of identifier, not just give a number.
 * page or pages: The page(s) on which the article is found. page inserts the abbreviation "p." before the number; pages inserts "pp." Use only one of these parameters. If numbers are entered for both, pages overrides page.
 * at: Position within the newspaper when page/pages is unsuitable, e.g. p. 2, col. 3, p. 2, para. 4 (when the page number is not sufficiently specific), section C, p. 2 (when the newspaper has several sections, each starting their page numbering at 1), or no. 456 (something in a numbered list). This parameter is ignored if either page/pages is specified.
 * language: The language in which the source is written. If English (the default) do not use this parameter. See also the 'trans_title' parameter.
 * trans_title: A translated title of the article, if the original title is in a foreign language. Would normally be used in conjunction with the 'language' parameter.
 * quote: Relevant quotation. Adding a quotation can help locate online copies of the item using a text search, especially if the original link goes dead.
 * archive parameters (if used, must be used both of them together)
 * archiveurl: The URL of an archived copy of a web page, if (or in case) the URL becomes unavailable. Typically used to refer to services like WebCite and Archive.org.
 * archivedate: Date when the item was archived. Should not be wikilinked. If not given, one might look up all available archive versions from URL http://web.archive.org/web/*/ (append the full original URL) to determine an appropriate date.
 * ref: ID for anchor. By default, no anchor is generated. The ordinary nonempty value ID generates an anchor with the given ; such a linkable reference can be made the target of wikilinks to full references, especially useful in short citations like shortened notes and parenthetical referencing. The special value harv generates an anchor suitable for the harv template; see anchors for Harvard referencing templates.
 * postscript: if specified, over-rides the default behaviour of terminating the citation with a full stop. Leave blank to suppress the full stop.  This may be useful when using a quote which ends in punctuation, or when generating an output consistent with other templates. It is preferred to manually adding ending punctuation, as the punctuation occurs within the &lt;cite&gt; tag, so will appear before any icons added by browser plugins.

Examples

 * Using first and last for author's name


 * No author but sourced to a news agency


 * Using authorlink to link to article about the author on Wikipedia


 * Using "format" parameter when not HTML. No need to use "location" parameter because "New York" is already in name of paper.


 * Using page to identify the reference by page; news item in library but not on line


 * A foreign-language news article


 * Using archiveurl and archivedate to refer to items that disappeared from newspaper's own website but are now available from an archive site

TemplateData
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Requires schemes of the type \"http://...\" or maybe even the protocol relative scheme \"//...\"", "type": "string", "suggested": true, "aliases": [ "URL" ], "example": "https://www.nytimes.com/..." }, "title": { "label": "Source title", "description": "The title of the article as it appears in the source; displays in quotes", "type": "string", "required": true }, "last": { "label": "Last name", "description": "The surname of the author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink'.", "aliases": [ "last1", "author", "author1", "authors" ], "suggested": true }, "first": { "label": "First name", "description": "Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink'.", "aliases": [ "first1" ], "suggested": true }, "date": { "label": "Source date", "description": "Full date of the source; do not wikilink", "type": "string", "suggested": true }, "publisher": { "label": "Publisher", "description": "Name of the parent institution or company that publishes the newspaper, magazine, or periodical; displays after name of the publication", "type": "string", "aliases": [ "distributor", "institution" ], "example": "News Corp" }, "last2": { "label": "Last name 2", "description": "The surname of the second author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink2'.", "aliases": [ "author2" ] }, "first2": { "label": "First name 2", "description": "Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the second author; don't wikilink." }, "work": { "label": "Name of publication", "description": "Name of the newspaper, magazine or periodical; displays after title", "type": "string", "suggested": true, "aliases": [ "journal", "magazine", "periodical", "newspaper" ], "example": "The Wall Street Journal" }, "others": { "label": "Others", "description": "Used to record other contributions to the work, such as 'Illustrated by John Smith' or 'Translated by John Smith'", "type": "string" }, "month": { "label": "Month of publication", "description": "Name of the month of publication; do not wikilink; use 'date' instead, if day of month is also known", "type": "string" }, "year": { "label": "Year of publication", "description": "Year of the source being referenced; use 'date' instead, if month and day are also known", "type": "string" }, "editor-last": { "label": "Editor last name", "description": "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'", "aliases": [ "editor-last1", "editor1-last", "editor-surname", "editor-surname1", "editor1-surname", "editor", "editor1" ] }, "editor-first": { "label": "Editor first name", "description": "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'", "aliases": [ "editor-first1", "editor1-first", "editor-given", "editor-given1", "editor1-given" ] }, "editor-link": { "label": "Editor link", "description": "Title of existing Wikipedia article about the editor; can suffix with a numeral to add additional editors; alias of 'editor1-link'", "type": "wiki-page-name", "aliases": [ "editor-link1" ] }, "issue": { "label": "Issue", "description": "Issue identifier when the source is part of a series that is published periodically", "type": "string", "aliases": [ "number" ] }, "department": { "label": "Department", "description": "Department within the periodical", "type": "string" }, "location": { "label": "Location of publication", "description": "Geographical place of publication; usually not wikilinked; omit when the publication name includes place; alias of 'place'", "type": "string", "aliases": [ "place" ] }, "publication-place": { "label": "Place of publication", "description": "Publication place shows after title; if 'place' or 'location' are also given, they are displayed before the title prefixed with 'written at'", "type": "string" }, "publication-date": { "label": "Publication date", "description": "Date of publication when different from the date the work was written; do not wikilink", "type": "string" }, "agency": { "label": "Agency", "description": "The news agency (wire service) that provided the content; examples: Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France-Presse", "type": "string" }, "edition": { "label": "Edition", "description": "When the publication has more than one edition; for example: '2nd', 'Revised' etc.; suffixed with ' ed.'", "type": "string" }, "volume": { "label": "Volume", "description": "For one publication published in several volumes", "type": "string" }, "page": { "label": "Page", "description": "Page in the source that supports the content; displays after 'p.'", "type": "string" }, "pages": { "label": "Pages", "description": "Pages in the source that support the content (not an indication of the number of pages in the source; displays after 'pp.'", "type": "string" }, "nopp": { "label": "No pp", "description": "Set to 'y' to suppress the 'p.' or 'pp.' display with 'page' or 'pages' when inappropriate (such as 'Front cover')", "type": "string" }, "at": { "label": "At", "description": "May be used instead of 'page' or 'pages' where a page number is inappropriate or insufficient", "type": "string" }, "language": { "label": "Language", "description": "The language in which the source is written, if not English; use the full language name; do not use icons or templates", "type": "string" }, "script-title": { "label": "Script title", "description": "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:...", "type": "string" }, "trans-title": { "label": "Translated title", "description": "An English language title, if the source cited is in a foreign language; 'language' is recommended", "type": "string", "aliases": [ "trans_title" ] }, "type": { "label": "Type", "description": "Additional information about the media type of the source; format in sentence case", "type": "string" }, "format": { "label": "Format", "description": "Format of the work referred to by 'url'; examples: PDF, DOC, XLS; do not specify HTML", "type": "string" }, "arxiv": { "label": "arXiv identifier", "description": "An identifier for arXive electronic preprints of scientific papers", "type": "string" }, "asin": { "label": "ASIN", "description": "Amazon Standard Identification Number; 10 characters", "type": "string" }, "asin-tld": { "label": "ASIN TLD", "description": "ASIN top-level domain for Amazon sites other than the US", "type": "string" }, "bibcode": { "label": "Bibcode", "description": "Bibliographic Reference Code (REFCODE); 19 characters", "type": "string" }, "doi": { "label": "DOI", "description": "Digital Object Identifier; begins with '10.'", "type": "string" }, "doi-broken-date": { "label": "DOI broken date", "description": "The date that the DOI was determined to be broken", "type": "string", "aliases": [ "doi_brokendate", "doi-inactive-date" ] }, "isbn": { "label": "ISBN", "description": "International Standard Book Number; use the 13-digit ISBN where possible", "type": "string", "aliases": [ "ISBN" ] }, "issn": { "label": "ISSN", "description": "International Standard Serial Number; 8 characters; may be split into two groups of four using a hyphen", "type": "string", "aliases": [ "ISSN" ] }, "jfm": { "label": "jfm code", "description": "Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik classification code", "type": "string" }, "jstor": { "label": "JSTOR", "description": "JSTOR identifier", "type": "string" }, "lccn": { "label": "LCCN", "description": "Library of Congress Control Number", "type": "string" }, "mr": { "label": "MR", "description": "Mathematical Reviews identifier", "type": "string" }, "oclc": { "label": "OCLC", "description": "Online Computer Library Center number", "type": "string" }, "ol": { "label": "OL", "description": "Open Library identifier", "type": "string" }, "osti": { "label": "OSTI", "description": "Office of Scientific and Technical Information identifier", "type": "string" }, "pmc": { "label": "PMC", "description": "PubMed Center article number", "type": "string" }, "pmid": { "label": "PMID", "description": "PubMed Unique Identifier", "type": "string" }, "rfc": { "label": "RFC", "description": "Request for Comments number", "type": "string" }, "ssrn": { "label": "SSRN", "description": "Social Science Research Network", "type": "string" }, "zbl": { "label": "Zbl", "description": "Zentralblatt MATH journal identifier", "type": "string" }, "id": { "label": "id", "description": "A unique identifier used where none of the specialized ones are applicable", "type": "string" }, "quote": { "label": "Quote", "description": "Relevant text quoted from the source; displays last, enclosed in quotes; needs to include terminating punctuation", "type": "string" }, "ref": { "label": "Ref", "description": "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", "type": "string" }, "postscript": { "label": "Postscript", "description": "The closing punctuation for the citation; ignored if 'quote' is defined; to suppress use reserved keyword 'none'", "type": "string", "default": "." }, "registration": { "label": "Registration", "description": "For online sources that require registration, set to 'yes' (or 'y', or 'true'); superseded by subscription if both are set", "type": "string" }, "subscription": { "label": "Subscription", "description": "For online sources that require subscription, set to 'yes' (or 'y', or 'true'); supersedes registration if both are set", "type": "string" }, "last3": { "label": "Last name 3", "description": "The surname of the third author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink3'.", "aliases": [ "author3" ] }, "first3": { "label": "First name 3", "description": "Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the third author; don't wikilink." }, "last4": { "label": "Last name 4", "description": "The surname of the fourth author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink4'.", "aliases": [ "author4" ] }, "first4": { "label": "First name 4", "description": "Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the fourth author; don't wikilink." }, "last5": { "label": "Last name 5", "description": "The surname of the fifth author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink5'.", "aliases": [ "author5" ] }, "first5": { "label": "First name 5", "description": "Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the fifth author; don't wikilink." }, "last6": { "label": "Last name 6", "description": "The surname of the sixth author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink6'.", "aliases": [ "author6" ] }, "first6": { "label": "First name 6", "description": "Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the sixth author; don't wikilink." }, "last7": { "label": "Last name 7", "description": "The surname of the seventh author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink7'.", "aliases": [ "author7" ] }, "first7": { "label": "First name 7", "description": "Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the seventh author; don't wikilink." }, "last8": { "label": "Last name 8", "description": "The surname of the eighth author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink8'.", "aliases": [ "author8" ] }, "first8": { "label": "First name 8", "description": "Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the eighth author; don't wikilink." }, "last9": { "label": "Last name 9", "description": "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.", "aliases": [ "author9" ] }, "first9": { "label": "First name 9", "description": "Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the ninth author; don't wikilink." }, "author-mask": { "label": "Author mask", "description": "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", "type": "string" }, "author-name-separator": { "label": "Author name separator", "description": "Changes the separator between last and first names; defaults to a comma and space; a space must be encoded as &#32;", "type": "string", "default": ", " }, "author-separator": { "label": "Author separator", "description": "Changes the separator between authors; defaults to a semicolon and space; a space must be encoded as &#32;", "type": "string", "default": "; " }, "display-authors": { "label": "Display authors", "description": "number of authors to display before 'et al.' is used;", "type": "number", "aliases": [ "displayauthors" ] }, "author-link": { "label": "Author link", "description": "Title of existing Wikipedia article about the author; can suffix with a numeral to add additional authors", "type": "wiki-page-name", "aliases": [ "authorlink", "authorlink1", "author-link1", "author1-link" ] }, "author-link2": { "label": "Author link 2", "description": "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)", "type": "wiki-page-name", "aliases": [ "authorlink2" ] }, "archive-url": { "label": "Archive URL", "description": "The URL of an archived copy of a web page, if or in case the URL becomes unavailable; requires 'archivedate'", "type": "string", "aliases": [ "archiveurl" ], "suggested": true }, "archive-date": { "label": "Archive date", "description": "Date when the original URL was archived; do not wikilink", "type": "string", "aliases": [ "archivedate" ], "suggested": true }, "dead-url": { "label": "Dead URL", "description": "If set to 'no', the title display is adjusted; useful for when the URL is archived preemptively but still live", "type": "string", "aliases": [ "deadurl" ], "suggested": true }, "lay-url": { "label": "Lay URL", "description": "URL link to a non-technical summary or review of the source; alias of 'laysummary'", "type": "string", "aliases": [ "layurl" ] }, "lay-source": { "label": "Lay source", "description": "Name of the source of the laysummary; displays in italics, preceded by an en dash", "type": "string", "aliases": [ "laysource" ] }, "lay-date": { "label": "Lay date", "description": "Date of the summary; displays in parentheses", "type": "string", "aliases": [ "laydate" ] }, "author-link3": { "label": "Author link 3", "description": "Title of existing Wikipedia article about the third author.", "type": "wiki-page-name", "aliases": [ "authorlink3", "author3-link" ] }, "author-link4": { "label": "Author link 4", "description": "Title of existing Wikipedia article about the fourth author.", "type": "wiki-page-name", "aliases": [ "authorlink4", "author4-link" ] }, "author-link5": { "label": "Author link 5", "description": "Title of existing Wikipedia article about the fifth author.", "type": "wiki-page-name", "aliases": [ "authorlink5", "author5-link" ] }, "author-link6": { "label": "Author link 6", "description": "Title of existing Wikipedia article about the sixth author.", "type": "wiki-page-name", "aliases": [ "authorlink6", "author6-link" ] }, "author-link7": { "label": "Author link 7", "description": "Title of existing Wikipedia article about the seventh author.", "type": "wiki-page-name", "aliases": [ "authorlink7", "author7-link" ] }, "author-link8": { "label": "Author link 8", "description": "Title of existing Wikipedia article about the eighth author.", "type": "wiki-page-name", "aliases": [ "authorlink8", "author8-link" ] }, "author-link9": { "label": "Author link 9", "description": "Title of existing Wikipedia article about the ninth author.", "type": "wiki-page-name", "aliases": [ "authorlink9", "author9-link" ] }, "last-author-amp": { "label": "Last author ampersand", "description": "When set to any value, changes the separator between the last two names of the author list to 'space ampersand space'", "type": "string", "aliases": [ "lastauthoramp" ] }, "access-date": { "label": "URL access date", "description": "The full date when the original URL was accessed; do not wikilink", "type": "string", "suggested": true, "aliases": [ "accessdate" ] }, "orig-year": { "label": "Original year", "description": "Original year of publication; provide specifics", "type": "string", "aliases": [ "origyear" ] }, "via": { "label": "via", "description": "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" } }, "maps": { "proveit": { "main": "title", "textarea": [ "quote" ] }, "citoid": { "title": "title", "url": "url", "publisher": "publisher", "publicationTitle": "work", "date": "date", "accessDate": "access-date", "location": "location", "ISSN": [ "issn" ], "ISBN": [ "isbn" ], "PMCID": "pmc", "PMID": "pmid", "pages": "pages", "volume": "volume", "issue": "issue", "DOI": "doi", "oclc": "oclc", "language": "language", "contributor": "others", "author": [ [ "first", "last" ], [ "first2", "last2" ], [ "first3", "last3" ], [ "first4", "last4" ], [ "first5", "last5" ], [ "first6", "last6" ], [ "first7", "last7" ], [ "first8", "last8" ], [ "first9", "last9" ] ], "editor": [ [ "editor-first", "editor-last" ] ] } }, "format": "inline", "paramOrder": [ "url", "title", "last", "first", "date", "work", "access-date", "archive-url", "archive-date", "dead-url", "publisher", "agency", "last2", "first2", "others", "month", "year", "editor-last", "editor-first", "editor-link", "issue", "department", "location", "publication-place", "publication-date", "edition", "volume", "page", "pages", "nopp", "at", "language", "script-title", "trans-title", "type", "format", "arxiv", "asin", "asin-tld", "bibcode", "doi", "doi-broken-date", "isbn", "issn", "jfm", "jstor", "lccn", "mr", "oclc", "ol", "osti", "pmc", "pmid", "rfc", "ssrn", "zbl", "id", "quote", "ref", "postscript", "registration", "subscription", "last3", "first3", "last4", "first4", "last5", "first5", "last6", "first6", "last7", "first7", "last8", "first8", "last9", "first9", "author-mask", "author-name-separator", "author-separator", "display-authors", "author-link", "author-link2", "lay-url", "lay-source", "lay-date", "author-link3", "author-link4", "author-link5", "author-link6", "author-link7", "author-link8", "author-link9", "last-author-amp", "orig-year", "via" ] }