Template:Cite DANAS/doc

Usage
This template is used for citing the online version of the two volume Dictionary of American Naval Aviation Squadrons (DANAS). Both volumes are hosted on the United States Navy Naval History & Heritage Command (NHHC) website. is a wrapper template for cite book.

Parameters
takes four parameters, of which only one is required:


 * volume – (required) the two DANAS volumes are located in different places on the NHHC website, have different authors and publication datess; volume is used by the template to choose the correct values. When volume is missing or empty, the template emits this error message: missing value for volume.
 * section – the online version of DANAS is divided into chapters and sections of chapters. For the purposes of this template, all chapters, chapter sections, appendices, glossaries, indexes, are treated as sections.  The value assigned to section is used to calculate page number offsets (see page). The section parameter takes as a value that part of the section's url that is the document's file name without extension:
 * the url for the section in volume 1, chapter 2 that contains data about VA-144 is:
 * the file name portion used in section is:
 * the value assigned to section is case sensitive
 * For volume 1:  and   but ,  ,
 * article – title of the section to which this citation refers
 * page – page number where the referenced information is located. The value assigned to page is used with tabulated data to calculate a page offest value that is appended to the citation's url so that when readers click the citation link, they may go directly to the appropriate page (known to work with Chrome's pdf viewer). If omitted, the url links to the first page of the section.  For references to the front matter where page numbers are lowercase roman numerals, use the roman numeral; the template automatically maps these to the appropriate offset.
 * page – page number where the referenced information is located. The value assigned to page is used with tabulated data to calculate a page offest value that is appended to the citation's url so that when readers click the citation link, they may go directly to the appropriate page (known to work with Chrome's pdf viewer). If omitted, the url links to the first page of the section.  For references to the front matter where page numbers are lowercase roman numerals, use the roman numeral; the template automatically maps these to the appropriate offset.

The individual chapters and sections are listed at NHHC:
 * Volume 1
 * Volume 2