User:Federalist51/citation tools

=Useful citation tools=

=Wikipedia Citation Styles= uses elements of The Chicago Manual of Style and the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, with significant adaptations. Templates implementing this style include, and.

Citation creates a citation in the same format as most of the templates, except that the periods are replaced with commas and there is no final period. A complete list of templates that are mimicked by citation can be found at citation/core. The parameters separator postscript (available for most templates) can also be used to alter the punctuation.

=The Citation template= The Citation template generates a citation for a book, periodical, contribution in a collective work, patent, or a web page. It determines the citation type by examining which parameters are used. Citation templates shows examples of how these differ.

If invoked with the right parameters, this template produces output identical to that of the Cite templates, such as Cite book and Cite web. The default behavior sometimes differs from that of the Cite templates; for example, this template by default generates anchors for Harvard references whereas the Cite templates do not (although they can be made to do so), and this template by default uses commas to separate some fields that the Cite templates separate with periods (full stops).

=Legal citation templates=


 * Template:Cite court (generic U.S. case citations)

Example


 * Template:Ussc (U.S. Supreme Court, mandatory links to United States Reports, and externally to one of five sources)

=CS1 Templates=

Books
Template:Cite book

Examples

To cite a book with a credited author

To cite a book with no credited author

To cite an online book that has been archived

To cite a book written in a foreign language

To cite and quote an archived, two-author, foreign language book re-published as a PDF on an information aggregation service requiring a subscription


 * Parameters for cite book

=Using multiple pages from the same source=

When an article cites many different pages from the same source, there are two main methods of unifying them instead of copying a completely new citation. One method is shortened footnotes (see ), which automatically displays an entirely new reference listing in the References section per unique page citation. Another method is to use the template rp, which appends any type of positional information (such as page numbers, chapter numbers, or audiovisual time code) directly each given citation in the article body, which would result in text such as appearing after a superscripted footnote number.