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When citing an article in a periodical, use cite journal. For edited collections, use cite encyclopedia.

Usage






 last last editor1-last editor1-last archivedate archiveurl url url year or date year publisher page or pages chapter layurl layurl lastn for n>1

 increment as needed increment as needed increment as needed increment as needed increment as needed increment as needed insert URL of online version of the book or an extract, if available †preferred (do not wikilink) alternative to date always include ISBN if one has been assigned hides automatic 'p' or 'pp'. alternative to page/pages when those are used with nopp do not wikilink |chapter if |chapterurl provided

† This is the preferred parameter with its alternates listed below.

Examples
Title

Title and year

Basic usage (single author)

Basic usage (two authors)

Basic usage with url (and accessdate) and edition

Citing a chapter in a book with different authors for different chapters and an editor

Citing a chapter in a book with two joint authors and an editor

Three authors, title with a piped wikilink, edition

Complex usage showing effect of using volume parameter and lastauthoramp parameter (without volume and lastauthoramp)

Complex usage showing effect of using volume parameter and lastauthoramp parameter (with volume and lastauthoramp)

Date without day, wikilinked title and publisher, pages, edition, location

Other language

Using a DOI

Using author-mask parameter

Using display-authors parameter

Testing
See Template:cite book/regression tests.