Template:Cite It's an Honour/doc

This template is used to provide references to pages in the Australian Honours Database website at https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/search. This is the official website of the Australian government for Australian honours and symbols in which a database of all recipients of Australian honours is maintained. The template is provided to simplify the entering of addresses.

Usage
Note: None of the parameters should be capitalised, to avoid the article being tagged as having a broken citation. For example, use "recipient", "postnominal", etc.—not "Recipient", "Post-nominal", etc.


 * Basic form using minimum parameters to link to the reference


 * Using access-date to provide a date information was retrieved


 * All parameters, delete those you don't need


 * All parameters, vertical format:

Required parameters

 * ausawardid: The database record number as shown in the url search string.
 * recipient: The person to whom the award was granted. This should be in the format 'Surname, Given name(s)'.
 * award: The full name of the award.
 * date: The date the award was granted. This should be in the format year-month-day, e.g. 2012-01-26.
 * either date: Full date of publication. Should not be wikilinked.
 * or year and month: Year of publication, and Name of the month of publication. If you also have the day, use date instead. Should not be wikilinked.

Optional parameters
For producing a post-nominal:
 * postnominal: The authorised post-nominal letters for the award (only applicable for selected awards).

For producing a citation:
 * citation or its alias quote: The reason the award was granted. This should be the short form citation (approximately 1 sentence) rather than the long form citation that also usually exists for the award of orders and decorations (long form citations are not usually found in the It's an Honour database).

For producing a date of retrieval:
 * access-date: Full date when item was accessed. Should not be wikilinked.

Source of information for parameters
To find the information to put into the parameters:
 * 1) Visit the It's an Honour website search page at:
 * 2) *Advanced searches: https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/search
 * 3) Enter search terms into the search fields
 * 4) When the list of matching entries is displayed, click on the person's name for the desired award and the site will open the corresponding record:
 * 5) From the web-browser URL note the aus_award_id= number. This may be up to seven digits.
 * 6) From the displayed information, note the Name (this is the recipient), the award, the post-nominal (only supplied for awards with a post-nominal entitlement), the date granted (this is the date and should be entered in ISO compliant format e.g. 2012-01-26) and the citation (in many cases this may be absent)
 * 7) Add each of these to the template
 * 8) Add the retrieval date

Examples

 * Some standard use cases

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 * Basic form using minimum parameters to link to the reference

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 * Using citation where no citation is provided

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 * Using access-date to provide a date information was retrieved (award date and citation unknown)

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 * Using no postnominal

TemplateData
{	"params": { "ausawardid": { "description": "Award ID. Extracted from URL: https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/####", "example": "1066011", "type": "string", "required": true },		"recipient": { "description": "The person to whom the award was granted", "example": "Adams, Phillip Rennell", "type": "string", "required": true },		"award": { "description": "The full name of the award", "example": "Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George", "type": "string", "required": true },		"date": { "description": "The date the award was granted", "type": "date", "suggested": true },		"postnominal": { "description": "The authorised post-nominal letters for the award", "example": "CMG", "type": "string", "suggested": true },		"citation": { "description": "The reason the award was granted", "type": "string", "suggested": true },		"access-date": { "aliases": [ "accessdate" ],			"description": "Date entry was accessed.", "type": "date", "suggested": true }	},	"description": "This template provides a citation for the Australian Honours Search Facility", "format": "inline" }