Category:Bibliography Templates: Difference between revisions

This category encompasses all Bibliography Templates.

A Bibliography template, in the new form, is one that can either be used for a compact citation in the article body or to provide a complete source ID for use in an article's bibliography.

Here is an example of how these are used. As a citation, a single parameter is used to specify the page number (or similar details particular to this citation, but not to the source itself).

The cheetah is the fastest animal on earth.{{BibTest|p. 5}}

When citing this source in a Bibliography section, however, no parameter is used. The template spits out a long format reference with a leading bullet.

==Bibliography==
{{BibTest}}

How does one write such a template? The basic form is

{{Fn|Complete bibliography reference|Abbreviated reference|{{{1|}}}}}<noinclude>[[Category:Bibliography Templates]]</noinclude>

Note that it calls another template called Fn, and hands it three parameters:

• the bibliographic (long format) description of the source (final period omitted). This should refer to the entire book, generally.
• the abbreviated footnote mention of the same work (again, no final period)
• three open braces, digit 1, a pipe character, and five close braces: {{{1|}}}
• there should be NO line breaks anywhere, or ugly whitespace and bullets may result in use