User:Jpacobb/Silrbib/doc

This is the bibliographical template of the family corresponding to the  and the various  templates except the citation of patents. was intended to be compatible with, but the reprogramming of this in Lua means that this is no longer practicable. Even so, for the sake of convenience, many parameters used in those templates should work. A list of those that have been discontinued can be found here. generates a link based on the author last-names and the suffix used in-line. The displayed text shows the year of publication after the name of the publisher.

Simple syntax (unnamed parameters)
This is intended to simplify the input of data in the majority case of a single author. The order is as intuitive as possible: what the author(s) wrote is named in third place. If it is an article included in a larger work, the main title is placed near the end of the list and its presence means the earlier title is taken as being that of an article.

&dagger;&thinsp;see below Care must be taken to supply blank parameters for any missing value or to use named variables after the omission, chiefly place ed(itor)(s) and suf(fix).

Basic syntax with named parameters
Many parameters are the same as in the cite/citation families and there is a list below of those considered unnecessary.

&dagger;&thinsp;see below
 * last = Last-name of Author1
 * first = First-name(s) of Author1
 * lastX = Last-name of Author2
 * firstX = First-name(s) of Author2
 * where X runs from 2 to 4
 * title/work = title of book/encyclopedia
 * [nb title is nearly always that of the complete work, use art or contribution for the sub-unit.&dagger;&thinsp;see below]
 * suf(fix) = suffix additional identifier as in
 * place/location = place of publication
 * pub(lisher) = name of publisher
 * year = year of publication
 * edition = additional information about title/work
 * url = web site reference


 * accessdate = date url accessed

If article in collection of any type sort including newspapers or periodicals:


 * art/article = name of article (author-names are referred to this)
 * ed/eds/editor/editors = name(s) of editor(s) of book, encyclopaedia etc. as a formatted text or full syntax editorx type

Title, article etc.
The fact that there is no standard terminology in Wikipedia for the case of an article/essay or the like included in a dictionary, encyclopaedia or collaborative production complicates the syntax here. (In different templates, "chapter", "contribution", "article", "title" are used for the included item, and "work", "encyclopedia" and "title" for the name of the major one.) If using named parameters, it is simplest to use art(icle) for the included item and work for the major one. If title is supplied it is ignored unless either of these parameters is missing, in which case it replaces it.

Examples
These are found on a specific examples page

Parameters: full listing
Note: User:Jpacobb/Silrbib correctly interpret some other parameters, such as surname and given, which are retained to facilitate conversion. During development some parameters have been left pending. When relevant, they should be included in any use of the template even though they do not appear on screen for the moment.

Identifiers
The full range of identifiers is handled. The most commonly used is isbn= ....

Discontinued parameters
The following parameters used in templates of the cite family do not function in this template:


 * author-mask, author-name-separator, author-separator, display-authors, encyclopedia, format, issue (use edition), laysource, laydate, layurl, nopp, postscript, quote, separator, series (use edition), volume (use edition).