Cite/doc

This is a documentation subpage for 模板:Cite (see that page for the 模板 itself).
It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original 模板 page.

This template is for citing sources.

For a list of citation templates, see Wikipedia:Citation templates.

The use of citation templates is recommended, but not mandatory. See Wikipedia:Citing sources for the relevant style guidelines.

Please consider using specific citation templates before using this general template.

Example:

Code:

{{cite |author=Fred Bloggs |title=A book |publisher=A Publisher |date=2004-07-31 }}

Result:

Fred Bloggs, A book, A Publisher, 2004-07-31.

Note: As "the date" is a single parameter in the code, using something like date=July 31, 2004 doesn't work. Hence the ISO date format is used in the example.

Useful links

Zotero - find articles in Mozilla Firefox and easily paste them into Wikipedia as citation templates with Ctrl-Alt-C
Verisimilus's Cite generator - find articles using built-in Google Scholar interface and automatically produce an appropriate cite template. Also features a BibTeX to {{cite}} converter.