Template:Cite/doc

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

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