Template:Cite GBIF/doc

Usage
This template creates a citation for a taxon in the species section of GBIF's website.

The Wikipedia Manual of Style recommends that taxa of the rank Genera and below be italicized (i.e. supergenus, subgenus, genus, species, subspecies, and varieties). Higher taxa should not be italicized. Italicizing, when appropriate, can be done using wiki markup as shown in the examples.

Cut and paste
where:
 * id the ID number, as shown at the top of the desired GBIF page.
 * taxon the scientific name, as shown at the top of the desired GBIF page, italicized if appropriate.
 * access-date the date on which you looked up the reference, in the style appropriate to the article.
 * mode determines the style of the citation; if omitted the default is cs1.