Template:Infobox short story/doc

{{Infobox short story <!--See [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels]]-->
| name              = COMPULSORY
| title_orig        = 
| translator        = 
| author            = COMPULSORY
| country           = 
| language          = 
| series            = 
| genre             = 
| published_in      = 
| publication_type  =
| publisher         = 
| media_type        = 
| pub_date          = (displays empty cell if not filled)
| english_pub_date  = 
| preceded_by       = 
| followed_by       = 
}}

{title of work}
{if title has been translated, title in original language}
{name of translator, if applicable}
{name of author}
{home country of author}
{original language of story}
{series the story is a part of, if applicable}
{genre the story falls into, see below}
{what the story was first released in, e.g. the name of the anthology, magazine, etc)
{how the story was first released, e.g. anthology, periodical, etc}
{name of publisher responsible for first edition}
{the media the story was first released in, e.g. hardback, paperback, magazine, newspaper, online}
{date of first release or publication}
{if applicable, date of first publication in English}
{If applicable, the name of the work preceding the story in a series}
{If applicable, the name of the work following the story in a series}