NJ0220
Joined 12 February 2021
Latest comment: 2 years ago by SMcCandlish in topic Citation template parameters
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Citation template parameters
editPlease read the citation template documentation. You're using various parameters incorrectly. In particular:
- The work title (name of the publication) always goes in
|work=
or one of its medium-specific aliases (|newspaper=
,|website=
,|magazine=
,|journal=
, etc.). Never use the|publisher=
parameter for this. It is for the publishing company only, and only when this differs significantly from the publication title. - The publication date goes in
|date=
, never in|issue=
, which is only for issue numbers of publications with numbered issues. - Publisher location information never goes in
|publisher=
or|work=
, only in|location=
, and it does not use US state abbreviations:|work=The Morning Call
|location=Allentown, Pennsylvania
- Don't use UK-style DMY dates, but MDY ones, in articles on American topics, unless there's a very good reason to use DMY (e.g., a military topic; the US military uses DMY date format).
- SCREAMING ALL-CAPS TITLES should be reduced to Title Case Like This.
- A minor point, but there is no reason to use
|first1=
and|last1=
when there is only one author; just use|first=
and|last=
, otherwise it looks like the citation is incomplete.