Template:Cite DCBL/doc

Usage
This template can be used in place of cite encyclopedia to indicate that the Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century is being cited to support information in an article. The advantage is that it will fill in certain fields automatically.

The Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century (1911) is now in the public domain. Text from the DCBL is incorporated into an article then use the template DCBL to attribution the text in compliance with the Plagiarism guideline.

Quick explanation (aide-mémoire)
The template can be placed in different locations and depending on the what it is required the parameters can be mixed and matched:

Detailed notes
This template is wrapper around cite encyclopedia. In its default mode it attributes text to an article from the third edition of the Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century.

This template automatically sets some of the parameters passed into cite encyclopedia for example "publisher = John Murray". Over and above the standard parameter passed into cite encyclopedia there are some additional parameters and those are listed below in a separate table from the table of parameters passed into cite encyclopedia.

Minimum is:  or   

Full set is: 

Tracking categories
Depending on the parameters passed into this template, it adds the following hidden categories to the articles in which it is used: For an overview group category of the above see:Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the DCBL