Template:Lay source/doc

This template is a wrapper template to provide standardized formatting for sources that describe scholarly research in a way that is more accessible to a general audience. This template should be bundled with a citation to that scholarly research. If the source described by this template is to be cited in an article, it would be better to use the proper cs1|2 template.

Usage
To use this template, specify one of the cs1|2 templates in template. Choose a cs1|2 template from the list below that is appropriate to the lay source: for a newspaper article or other news source,  for a magazine article, etc. If template is empty or omitted, defaults to. This wrapper template supports all of the standard cs1|2 citation templates:



Supply the parameters and values necessary to properly cite the lay source. For example, an adaptation of the lay-url and lay-source parameters in this citation might be written this way:

ref is suppressed and internally set to  to prevent sources wrapped in this template from being linked by  etc.