Template:Bluebook website/doc

Usage

This template creates citations to websites in a modified Bluebook citation style. If you are citing a periodical (like a newspaper or magazine) that is also published online you should use {{Bluebook journal}}. The general way to use this template is: {{Bluebook website|first= |last= |title= |publisher= |url= |pin= |date= }}

Authorship

• For institutional authors use |last= alone
• For named authors, use both |first= and |last=
  • Additional authors (up to 3) can be added using |firstn= and |lastn=. Do not use |first1= or |last1=

Work information

Basic info

• Use |title= for the name of the webpage or web resource
• Use |publisher= for the publisher of the resource. This is usually the institution who created the resource or the name of the larger site the resource is found on.
• If the resource has page numbers, and you wish to cite a specific page, use |pin= to specify the page.
• Date information can be specified in three ways in descending precedence:
  • |date= will always be displayed if specified.
  • |updated= should be used to specify a specific version with a known update date. If specified, access-date will not display.
  • |access-date= should be the date when the resource was last accessed. It will only display if no other date parameter is specified.

URLs and links

• |url= should contain a bare link to the original location of the resource.
  • |url-access= Citations of online sources that require registration or a subscription are acceptable in Wikipedia as documented in Verifiability § Access to sources. As a courtesy to readers and other editors, editors can signal restrictions on access to material provided via the external links included in a citation. Four access levels can be used:
    • free: the source is free to read for anyone (from the viewpoint of the provider of the source – could still be blocked by client-side filtering or safeguarding, or distributor-based geoblocking)
    • registration: a free registration with the provider of the source is required to access the source, even if a limited preview, abstract or review may still be available without registration
    • limited: there are other constraints (such as a cap on daily views, a restriction to certain day or night times, or providing the contents only to certain IP ranges/locales on behalf of the provider of the source) to freely access this source as a whole
    • subscription: the source as a whole is only accessible via a paid subscription with the provider of the source ("paywall"), even if a limited preview, abstract or review may still be available without subscription
  • |url-status= This optional parameter is ignored if archive-url is not set. If omitted, or with null value, the default value is |url-status=dead. When the URL is still live, but pre-emptively archived, then set |url-status=live; this changes the display order, with the title retaining the original link and the archive linked at the end. When the original URL is 'live' but no longer supports the article text, set |url-status=deviated. When the original URL has been usurped for the purposes of spam, advertising, or is otherwise unsuitable, setting |url-status=unfit or |url-status=usurped suppresses display of the original URL (but |url= and |archive-url= are still required).
• |archive-url= may contain a link to an archived version of the web resoruce.
  • |archive-date= the date or archival for the linked archival resource.

Other

• |punct= a punctuation mark to follow the citation. Defaults to a period.

Deviations from the Bluebook

• The main deviation from the Bluebook is the omission of a plain text link. As an online encyclopedia the inclusion of a plain text link is not as useful as simply linking the title. This change also maintains consistency with other citation styles used on Wikipedia.
• If |url-access= is set, the linked text includes a following icon symbolizing whether the resource is free-to-access, registration-restricted, or paywalled.
• If an archival url is included via |archive-url=, the Bluebook style is augmented with a parenthetical explanation of the archival information.

Template Data

No description.

Template parameters

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Last name or institutional author	last	no description	String	required
First name of first author	first	no description	String	suggested
Last name of second author	last2	no description	String	optional
First name of second author	first2	no description	Unknown	optional
Last name of third author	last3	no description	String	optional
Title	title	no description	String	required
Link	url	no description	URL	suggested
Publisher	publisher	no description	String	required
Date	date	no description	Date	suggested
Date website updated	updated	no description	Date	suggested
Date accessed	access-date	no description	Date	suggested
Archive link	archive-url	no description	URL	suggested
Archive date	archive-date	no description	Date	optional
Website access limits	url-access	no description Suggested values free limited registration subscription	String	suggested
Website status	url-status	no description Suggested values live dead deviated usurped unfit	String	optional
Page number cited	pin	no description	Number	optional
Following punctuation	punct	no description	String	optional

See also

• {{Bluebook journal}}
• {{Cite court}}
• {{Ussc}}
• {{Scite}}