Template:NDB/doc

Purpose
Template for web links to Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB) articles, as used on German Wikipedia for over 6000 articles of the more than 21,000 NDB biographies that have been published, with 3,520 further articles expected to be added in four further volumes until 2017.

Usage
Standard unnamed parameters as used in the German original: may be left blank when the NDB article only appears on a single page.

Additional named parameters (see the documentation for more details) |postscript=defaults to the value in — it can be altered to another value |ref=either defaults to Author of biography, year — or if the unnamed "Author" (parameter 5) is not set it            defaults to NBD, year — like the other parameters the default values can be overridden (which can be useful when used with and                            templates (see more than one work in a year).  |year=defaults to a value set by the unnamed Vol (parameter 2).                         — it can be altered to another value, which is sometimes                           useful in combination with the parameter and value ref=harv.

Example
produces:

produces:

If you want to use several authors with separately specified first and last names, an option is to use

(note the double  that means the unnamed "author" parameter is left empty) to produce

Usage notes
The template does not include an item bullet and so is easy to use in a footnote citation. In a list, the template should be preceded by an asterisk, as specified in the usage section above.