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[edit] Using this template

You can use this template with no parameters, and it will output the following basic book citation:

Bridgeman, Leonard. Jane’s Fighting Aircraft of World War II. London: Studio, 1946. ISBN 1 85170 493 0.

Optional parameters are available, describing specific entry and page number. These have been added in support of more robust citation.

for example,

{{Ref Jane's|The Hawker Hurricane|128-129}}

produces: Bridgeman, Leonard. “The Hawker Hurricane.” Jane’s Fighting Aircraft of World War II. London: Studio, 1946. p. 128-129. ISBN 1 85170 493 0.

while

{{Ref Jane's|The Hawker Hurricane}}

results in: Bridgeman, Leonard. “The Hawker Hurricane.” Jane’s Fighting Aircraft of World War II. London: Studio, 1946. ISBN 1 85170 493 0.

please note that only including a page number won't really work properly.

[edit] Books other than Fighting Aircraft of WWII

Additional Jane's references may be added to the template and selected with the use of a third parameter.

for example,

{{Ref Jane's | The Example Aircraft | 111 | wwi }}

results in: Grey, C.G. “The Example Aircraft.” Jane’s Fighting Aircraft of World War I. London: Studio, 1919. p. 111. ISBN 1 85170 347 0.

Books currently implemented:

  • Jane’s Fighting Aircraft of World War I (use wwi or ww1)
  • Jane’s Fighting Aircraft of World War II (use wwii or ww2)
  • Jane’s American Fighting Aircraft of the 20th Century (use 1991 or 20th)
  • Jane’s Encyclopedia of Aviation, 1993 edition (use 1993)

[edit] Jane's

There's more than one Jane's item (consider periodicals, other reference materials from them) that could be referenced. I think the title of this template should be made more specific. —Joseph/N328KF (Talk) 13:58, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Alternately, the template could be made more generic (ie, {{Ref Jane's|fighting|The Hawker Hurricane|128-129}} rather than the current) to allow the use of any jane's publication by simply adding more options to a #switch field. AWB could run through the existing uses and convert them. ericg ✈ 20:22, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
It's done, though the order can be switched later via awb as previously mentioned. ericg ✈ 22:04, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Problems with this template

This template, as currently set up, gives wrong information for at least two of the Books that can be referenced.

Jane’s Fighting Aircraft of World War II is not edited or authored by Fred T. Jane (who died in 1916- the original 1946 Jane's on which it was based was Edited by Leonard Bridgeman, and the version published under that name by Studio was not published in 1946 but 1989.
Similarly Jane’s Fighting Aircraft of World War I was not principally editied by Jane - The 1919 edition on which most of it was based was edited by C.G Grey (although the 1914 edition of which extracts were also used was edited by Jane). The Studio edition was first published in 1990.Nigel Ish (talk) 17:42, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
Fixed. Thanks, Nigel. I have them both sitting on my shelf, but I pulled down copyright info from an isbn search and didn't really think to verify. ericg ✈ 04:05, 1 June 2008 (UTC)