Template:Cite NatureServe

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This template wraps {{Cite web}} and formats a citation to a webpage at NatureServe Explorer similar to that in the NatureServe Explorer Data Use Terms and Citations. Citation Style 1 (CS1) is used unless |mode=cs2.

Parameters

This template will accept all parameters that are available to {{Cite web}}, though only a few are needed because it will automatically provide a standardized set of parameters. Parameters url, author, author-link, website, location, and language are set within the template to pre-formatted values. The template will overwrite any values placed in these parameters.

Parameters id and title are required. Using the value of id, the template formats url so that it points to a NatureServe Explorer webpage.

Parameters date and access-date are strongly recommended. The value to use for date can be found at the bottom right of NatureServe Explorer's webpage for the taxon. NatureServe updates the data periodically.

Setting id

Parameter id must be set to the NatureServe Explorer identifier for the page being cited. This can be found in the URL. The NatureServe Explorer identifier is the numeric value after the text "ELEMENT_GLOBAL." within the URL. In the example URL shown, it is "2.130353".

https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.130353/Carex_rupestris

Correct:

Y Correct  : |id=2.130353

Using a leading period (".") or including "ELEMENT_GLOBAL" will not work:

N Incorrect: |id=.2.130353

N Incorrect: |id=ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.130353

Setting title

Parameter title should be set to the title of the webpage, usually the scientific name of the taxon. The template does not determine the formatting. Italics for species and infraspecies must be used when setting title.

Correct:

Y Species: |title=''Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha''

Y Animal subspecies: |title=''Monadenia fidelis baxteriana''

Y Plant infraspecies: |title=''Symphyotrichum pilosum'' var. ''pringlei''

Incorrect:

N Species: |title=Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha

N Animal subspecies: |title=Monadenia fidelis baxteriana

N Plant infraspecies: |title=Symphyotrichum pilosum var. pringlei

N Common name: |title=Rock Sedge

Setting date and access-date

The value to use for date can be found at the bottom right of NatureServe Explorer's webpage for the taxon. NatureServe updates the data periodically.

Parameter access-date is the date you accessed the webpage.

Pre-formatted parameters

Parameters url, author, author-link, website, location, and language are set within the template to pre-formatted values. Parameter publisher is not set as it is deemed redundant. Do not use pre-formatted parameters because the template will overwrite anything placed in them with the following values.

|url=https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.id/

|author=NatureServe

|author-link=NatureServe

|website=NatureServe Explorer

|location=Arlington, Virginia

|language=en

Copy and paste

Vertical

{{Cite NatureServe
 | date        = 
 | id          = 
 | title       = 
 | access-date = 
}}

Horizontal

{{Cite NatureServe | date = | id = | title = | access-date = }}

Usage

Recommended

Citation Style 1 (the default):

Y

{{Cite NatureServe
 | date        = 1 November 2024
 | id          = 2.130353
 | title       = ''Carex rupestris''
 | access-date = 6 November 2024
}}

{{Cite NatureServe | date = 1 November 2024 | id = 2.130353 | title = ''Carex rupestris'' | access-date = 6 November 2024}}

• NatureServe (1 November 2024). "Carex rupestris". NatureServe Explorer. Arlington, Virginia. Retrieved 6 November 2024.

Citation Style 2:

Y

{{Cite NatureServe
 | date        = 1 November 2024
 | id          = 2.130353
 | title       = ''Carex rupestris''
 | access-date = 6 November 2024
 | mode        = cs2
}}

• NatureServe (1 November 2024), "Carex rupestris", NatureServe Explorer, Arlington, Virginia, retrieved 6 November 2024

Not recommended

Using the template without setting date and access-date is not recommended.

N

{{Cite NatureServe
 | id    = 2.130353
 | title = ''Carex rupestris'' 
}}

If id and title are set, but the date parameters are not, the result will be as follows.

• NatureServe. "Carex rupestris". NatureServe Explorer. Arlington, Virginia.

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