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Since templates are transcluded, being able to fix the templates that render citations would correct everywhere that template is used.

However:

  • Use of the citation templates is not required. You are entitled to either format citations by hand (no particular style is encouaged) rather than using the templates.
  • Many editors find citation templates a distraction.
  • Editors may be sensitive to templatizing citations. You're supposed to get consensus on the Talk (a.k.a. "discussion") page before making changes like this.

There are some semi-bots that aid in fixing citations:

  • User:CitationTool is a semi-bot for finding citation errors (sequencing and duplication errors) and fixing them.
  • User:SmackBot fixes ISBNs
  • User:Cyde/Ref converter converts articles that use the older {{ref}} and {{note}} system into the more recent Cite system (<ref> and </references>)

Note that most templates are protected; I'll need to ask an admin to implement changes to the templates.


To view the actual template, view the source of the template page. To understand the syntax of the if statements, see m:ParserFunctions.


The ones above have COinS in the templates. The ones below do not.

  • {{cite web}} website
  • {{cite newsgroup}} newsgroup posting
  • {{cite paper}} paper thesis dissertation
  • {{cite press release}}
  • {{cite video}}
  • {{cite episode}} television or radio episode
  • {{cite court}} court case
  • {{cite map}}
  • {{cite mailing list}}

Also, the Special:Booksources page (where hyperlinked ISBNs go), has COinS.

History

[edit]
  • December 3, 2006 - January 9, 2007
    • Omegatron (talk) expressed interest in adding COinS to {{cite journal}} template (see discussion) and {{cite book}} template (see discussion).
  • April 18-21, 2007
    • Gwern (talk) added COinS to {{Citation}} template though Omegatron noted this only works for books (see discussion).
  • May 28 - June 8, 2007
    • COGDEN (talk) removed COinS from{{Citation}} template but Omegatron talked him through their return (see discussion).
  • November 8, 2007
    • Karnesky (talk) suggestion about improving rft.genre in {{cite book}} template (see discussion).
  • April - August 2007
    • Pigsonthewing (talk; banned until August 19, 2008) seems to have added COinS to other templates (e.g., Infobox Book) but these seem to have been reverted.

{{Citation}}

[edit]
Fields Current COinS Mapping Comments
n/a rft_val_fmt is hard-coded to info:/ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book Wrong. Additionally, LibX converts this to genre=book which duplicates this genre field
? if Journal is not empty: rft.genre=article, elseif IncludedWorkTitle is not empty: rft=genre=bookitem; else rft.genre=book Needs work
IncludedWorkTitle rft.atitle ?
Periodical rft.title if Journal is not empty ? (rft.title is OpenURL Version 0.1 / rft.jtitle is OpenURL Version 1.0)
Title rft.title always; rft.atitle if Journal is not empty Needs work. The article example maps to title when it should map to atitle.
contribution, contribution-url, chapter, chapter-url -
Surname1 rft.aulast Ok
Given1 rft.aufirst Ok
last, first, author-link, last1, first1, author1-link, last2, first2, author2-link, last3, first3, author3-link, last4, first4, author4-link, editor-last, editor-first, editor-link, editor1-last, editor1-first, editor1-link, editor2-last, editor2-first, editor2-link, editor3-last, editor3-first, editor3-link, editor4-last, editor4-first, editor4-link -
Date rft.date Ok
publication-date, year -
series -
Volume rft.volume Ok
Issue rft.issue Ok
At rft.pages Ok
Edition rft.edition Ok
Place, Publication Place rft.place Two values?
Publisher rft.pub Ok
DOI rft_id=info:doi/ Ok
ISBN rft.isbn Ok
ISSN rft.issn Ok
id, oclc -
IncludedWorkURL rft_id= Is this kosher? Need to check.
access-date -

{{{cite book}}}

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Field Current COinS mapping Comments
- rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book
- rft.genre=book
title rft.btitle Ok
chapter rft.atitle Ok
last rft.aulast Ok
first rft.aufirst Ok
author rft.au Ok (should be rft.author / think of: ...contains("rft.au")
coauthors (Körperschaft) rft.aucorp Organization or corporation that is the author or creator of the book, i.e. "MellonFoundation"
date, year rft.date Ok
edition rft.edition Ok
publisher rft.pub Ok
location rft.place Ok
page rft.pages Ok
series rft.series Ok
isbn rft.isbn Ok
oclc rft_id=info:oclcnum/ Ok
doi rft_id=doi/ Ok
url rft_id Ok
location -

{{{cite journal}}}

[edit]
Field Current COinS mapping Comments
- rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal
- rft.genre=article
title rft.atitle Ok
journal rft.jtitle Ok
last rft.aulast Ok
first rft.aufirst Ok
author rft.au Ok
coauthors -
date, year rft.date Ok
volume rft.volume Ok
issue rft.issue Ok
page rft.pages Ok
issn rft.isbn Ok
pmid rft_id=info:pmid/ Ok
doi rft_id=doi/ Ok
url rft_id Ok